HELP MEEEEEEE!

[elting44]

An 85% WC may have been enough to wipe out your BB. If you added the water and then added your conditioner it may have exposed the BB to enough Chlorine to kill it.

 

[kdrun76]

What were your test results, nitrate, nitrite and ammonia?

Now after the water change, what are they?

 

[ar0wan]

What were your test results, nitrate, nitrite and ammonia?

Now after the water change, what are they?

Naow you know full well we don't have these answers
canned responses are canned

 

[BigO6687]

i turned off everything, filled up a bucket with water, added dechlor, poured in, so on and so forth until it was filled within an inch or two of the trim, turned everything back on

i'm not sure how an 85% change could have wiped out my bio, they weren't exposed to chlorine at all.

 

[BigO6687]

Naow you know full well we don't have these answers
canned responses are canned

 

[kdrun76]

Naow you know full well we don't have these answers
canned responses are canned

There is nothing canned about it! An ammonia bloom can cause the milky appearance to the water being described.

High nitrates were mentioned, but no numbers given.

These are valid questions, not canned responses.

 

[BigO6687]

This post brings the end of any respect anyone on here has for me.


I do not currently have a test kit.

Flame on.






Now, I know the nitrates because I mentioned I haven't done a wc in a while, (I know, not the best decision). My tank looked milky, my guess a bacteria bloom, and I panicked. Did a large wc. Came on here.

 

[ar0wan]

Poor WC schedule + no water testing routine = ??

I'm not criticizing OP nor those who are trying to help
but wat did you think was gonna happen

wat do you want us to say
The tank will re-cycle and be ok for a while
Poor WC schedule + no water testing routine = ??

 

[BigO6687]

Poor WC schedule + no water testing routine = ??

I'm not criticizing OP nor those who are trying to help
but wat did you think was gonna happen

wat do you want us to say
The tank will re-cycle and be ok for a while
Poor WC schedule + no water testing routine = ??

I used to be obsessive with my wc's, giving me almost no reason for a test kit doing ~50% 2x a week just so my fish could have the best... I haven't done it in a while due to something I'd rather not talk about.

 

[ar0wan]

Understood and experienced
I've killed moar fish from a much needed WC than from poor water quality
the change does the damage to an already stressed specimen
Get back on the horse or find it a new stable