Here we go again PISSEd!!!!!

[duanes]

I would not call you a non-resposible fish keeper, but with that kind of money invested, I might not walk away.
There are many things that can go wrong beyond main breaks, sinks holes, and other natural and un-natural events that are beyond your water companies control, or probably beyond yours.
Where I used to live, I had to constantly monitor water temp, color, and chlorine residual during water changes, my water could go from 70'F to 35'F in seconds, and if I was not vigilant disaster was inevitable. Chlorine could go from 1ppm to 4ppm, if there was a main break, or main flush.
All it took was one deadly event, to learn a very expensive lesson for me.
My purpose in my response is to educate, not harangue.
I used a temp probe whenever doing a water change, and check it every few minutes.

 

[888fish]

I'd like make a few comments...
---1st. Thx for sharing this incident, it is very sad, but educates others to make changes to hopefully prevent this happening. Every hobbyist's biggest nightmare is viewing your tank and seeing your fishes dead or dying for whatever reason.
---2nd. VERY sorry bro!
---3rd. This happened to me too...a year ago the water department had a huge project on my street of replacing the main water pipes, lots of earthshaking work too. My large loaches started dying, and lost a 10" NTT too. Since I did everything else routinely for years...they must have made changes to the water.

 

[duanes]

One other thing I'd like to mention, all water plants are only in control, if the source water they get is under control. There is only so much technology can do to polluted water.
If because politicians relax water quality laws, we are going to get what we vote for.
If businesses are allowed to pollute through lax controls or relaxed laws, there may be nothing a water plant can do to save the tap water from a contaminated source.
If politicians decide infrastructure like distribution systems should not be maintained or updated, more accidents such as main breaks and sink holes are unavoidable, and there is more need to shock systems to get them potable.
Look at Flint, because politicians decided water rules should be relaxed, .......enough rant.

 

[Maritimer]

Man I am glad I can drain my tanks into my door yard and fill straight from the tap, if I had to go through the rest of that I probably wouldn't have them.