i hate tinfoil barb

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GODZALLA

GODZALLA

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yeah that is true i hate them so much

cus every time i do change 25 % of the water they usually die after it by max 1 hour .. !!

so i don't have to buy tinfoils again as i did it not less that 20 times before and they all died in a 25 % water change ..

any one have any idea about what is happening
 
what was the ph, nitrates, amonia level, chlorine levels of the water you used to do the change with ?
 
GODZALLA;3543487; said:
yeah that is true i hate them so much

cus every time i do change 25 % of the water they usually die after it by max 1 hour .. !!

so i don't have to buy tinfoils again as i did it not less that 20 times before and they all died in a 25 % water change ..

any one have any idea about what is happening
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hard to tell if you don't supply any info about your tank/fish/water parameters, filters, any other changes recently, etc.

do you condition your water when you do w/c? is your water tap/city, well, other? w/o conditioning you may be subjecting your tank to too much chlorine or chloramines which is toxic to fish. many recommend using Prime.

maybe tank not cycled yet, nitrate/ammonia levels may be hi, etc.

so tell us more & I am sure someone can help you.

they die in an hr I think it's your water source. good luck.
 
my experience with barbs is that they sensitive to pH changes.

check your tank pH then check your tap pH.

chances are, if they died very quickly afterwards, its probably pH related, assuming acceptable temperature of the new water, using normal dechlorinator etc etc.

barbs are pretty tolerant of other water parameters like nitrates, but not so much with pH
 
Are you using a water conditioner? Matching the temp of the new water to the tank water?
 
have you ever observed them die? or showing symptoms of anything immediately following your waterchanges?

Even temperature or ph shock generally takes more than an hour to kill a fish, and even then it isn't usually the shock so much as the stress causing the fishes immune systems to fail and some other infection or parasite finishing the job, do you have any other fish in the tank that are surviving your waterchanges?

The only thing I can think of that would kill barbs of all things that quickly that regularly would be chlorine..
 
I had three huge tinfoils until resently, passed them on because they outgrew my 150us.....They were exstemely hardy fish did alot of woopsies and they handled it all, once temp dropped from 26-5c in 20mins, water i didnt realise was so cold on a big waterchange,they hadled it fine, iam wondering how your filteration and stocking is inc tank size, also how you clean filter, seems odd how you have gone through so many
 
well sorry for the late ..

the tank is 110 Liter

fishes : group of adult angels + marbled red tail catfish + shovelnose catfish + severeum + high fin shark

i do only 25 w/c with no conditioning ( i know that it is hard to just put water from tap directly ) but i do that long time ago except in winter i have to heat the water to 27 C first so the heating Evaporate the chlorine ..

but i do that to all of my tanks and most of them is American cichlid and some cats and african cichlids

our tap water ph is almost 7.5

the temp is the same 27 @ both ..

but to be honest i do not measure the ph or the nitrates in tank as i do w/c every week
 
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