Multiple fish deaths in just hours...help

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bingo296

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Jul 17, 2012
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So my girlfriend and I have a 29 gallon tank, we had gotten rid of our and loach 2 weeks ago due to swimming space. Things have been fine... I don't live in the same rainbow shark
State so I hadn't seen the tank for 2 weeks and last night I get a phone call saying all our tetras are dead (10) along with 3 of
Our cories. All that is left is her angel fish and a albino Cory and
A dwarf gourame
We tested the water and it was fine... However she told me that the night before she had noticed a reddish/whitish fuzz on our fake silk (sigh) plants (she has a hand of death when it comes to real plants) and on some other decorations... It doesn't seem to be on the driftwood... Atleast not from what I can see.. And it's not on the Anubias leaves or it's rock its rooted too... It was free floating in the water... And upon removing the filters (one at a time) to rinse them during a wc I saw a lotttt of this "fuzz/gunk" in the assembly of
Our HOB filters.. Not moving
Just sitting in the bottom like it was sucked up and couldn't be passed through
The filter.. I don't know what could have killed the fish... The other. Cory looks awful.. And the angel seems to breather
Extremely extremely hard under the water every ten minutes
Or so... Then goes back to normal.. And the gourami isn't as active as he was... I don't know if the fuzz killed
Them.. Or what... But something's goin on...

On another note the carpet cleaning company came
To her apart yesterday when she was at class.. Which is when she came
Home and
Saw 1 dead tetra got rid of it teste water and
Went to work.. And came home to the mass casualty situation...
She said she read that even if your aquariums on a stand somehow the carpet cleaning
Stuff can be passed airborne into your water or filter and
It is extremely toxic to fish.. So you need to cover your open
Cut outs with a towel, which she didnt... I dont think this is what happened but some of the dead fish were white, which means lack of oxygen? Or do all fish turn white 2 hours
After dying.

We have a 29 gallon tank with a small 100gph
Power head(tetras loved swimming at it and messing around in the flow) and a fluval c3 and an aqueon cheapo secondary filter... Both HOB.

 
We use carpet shampoo daily are oldest hot dog has axadents a lot. I never had this problume before.

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If carpet cleaners are coming, a towel isn't enough. Tape plastic over the entire tank and filter, so none of the mist can enter.
But
If there was fuzz/stuff in the filter and if it wasn't flowing, the tank could have gone anoxic, indicating not enough filter cleaning or water changes. Ad to this even a little carpet cleaning mist, and its all over.
 
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