Can Burning cooking oil?

[koliveira]

A few months back I lost all the fish in my kitchen tank overnight. The water tested just fine. The only wierd thing that happened was I burned a pan full of olive oil that I was heating up. The kitchen became smokey and the next morning all were dead.
Correlation or causation????

 

[dr_sudz]

Never heard of anything like that before, but I suppose it would be possible pending on how smokey the kitchen got.. I would suspect that if there was enough smoke in the air it could have disrupted the O2 - CO2 exchange and possibly they could have died of smoke enhalation. Very intresting. Is the filter exposed to the air? Ie: water falling from a HOB filter?

 

[koliveira]

It is a 50g with an aquaclear 500 and a wet dry that moves about 600g an hour. It is sealed up top but the wet dry is open.

I have never heard of this happening. Thanks for reply.. I hope to get to the bottom of this

 

[rascalsweet]

possible that the oil made a film in the tank? I mean the residue from the smoke?

 

[DeLgAdO]

toxic gasses from the burning of the olive oil probably diffused into the water