Bleeding Fish!!!!!

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I have 3 tinfoil barbs that are bleeding through their scales...:eek: One parrot fish on its side. And one silver dollar that was found upside down but still alive I see as 10% chance of survival:confused:. I did a big water change. Before doing the change I took some readings.. I thought it might of been something to do with the ammonia but surprisingly the ammonia was at 0? PH was a 6.0 I usually have it at 6.5. Nitrites 0, Nitrates <10
 
a tank wipe out like that hmmmm you sure your water tests are right

did you do any cleaning recently with aerosal based cleaner near the tank
 
that is weird. i would have guessed some sort of tank crash, but if your parameters really were 0, this wouldn't make sense. anything else in the tank? some predatory or aggressive fish? anybody drop something in the tank that shouldn't have been put in there? chemicals?
 
I always wash my hands before touching my tanks. No chemicals have been near the tank. The only thing I can think of it that I changed their food.... I was trying different types of food to see what the fish liked the most.... could this of done it?
 
By washing your hands do you mean you use soap? If so you shouldn't use anything on your hands before you go into your tank as you are going to introduce tiny amounts of what ever was on your hands i.e.: soap into the tank.
 
Well I do wash my hands with soap, but rinse them really well after using the soap. I usually wash them when Ive i.e. taken out the trash or something simler.
 
Bump? What to do?
 
You sure its not ammonia? I had an ammonia spike (a really BAD one) during the night about 2 years back... I woke up that morning and all my fish were bleeding, 250$ worth of plecos were already dead and everyone still breathing was on there way out. Seems to be exactly what you are describing... are your test strips expired or were the exposed to any elements? - that can cause inaccurate readings...
I would suggest: water changes and blowing as much oxygen into the tank as you can - like a sponge filter w/ one of those air tubes (thats what i used)... also if you have any extra healthy bio-media you can put into that tank, do it... I did water changes every 3ish hours that day, squeezed healthy sponge filters into the water from other tanks and pumped as much oxygen as i could into that tank, I had no more loses and things returned to normal.

Em
 
Update: Parrot is back to acting normal, I did lose my silver dollar. Tinfoil barbs dont look as bad... But still have some blood on them. Sorry Cam my camera sucks its all blurry and its also dead right now....
 
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