I was helping a buddy setup a tank with pearl gouramies (3) and a gold gourami. I told him not to add nice fish to a new tank, but he was very
insistent. So I agreed to help under my terms.
We filled the tank with gravel from another tank and a bio-wheel off a tank I have been running for 2 years. He filled the tank and floated the bags. Thats when the fish started acting badly. It was like they had been bagged too long and had used up the oxygen.
I told him that they were going to dye in the bag and that he should acclimate a little faster than usual since the circumstances were getting ugly. Two of the pearls came out of the bag and looked dead. I was stumped. How can these fish be dying so quickly. I rush for the test kit to check. When I put the test tube in the water I thought I nearly burnt my hand (not really), the water was about 95 degrees.
We managed to save the gold and one pearl with a cold water change and ice bags. Normally I know that huge temperature shifts are bad, but this case I made an exception.
We filled the tank with gravel from another tank and a bio-wheel off a tank I have been running for 2 years. He filled the tank and floated the bags. Thats when the fish started acting badly. It was like they had been bagged too long and had used up the oxygen.
I told him that they were going to dye in the bag and that he should acclimate a little faster than usual since the circumstances were getting ugly. Two of the pearls came out of the bag and looked dead. I was stumped. How can these fish be dying so quickly. I rush for the test kit to check. When I put the test tube in the water I thought I nearly burnt my hand (not really), the water was about 95 degrees.We managed to save the gold and one pearl with a cold water change and ice bags. Normally I know that huge temperature shifts are bad, but this case I made an exception.
