My Dream Fish is Sick, HELP!

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Gabriel_Martucci

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Hey everyone! I live in Northern California and there's lots of wildfires right now so they are turing of power to a lot of my local area. My 65 gallon with my Stary Night cichlid. He probally went without power for 8 hours in the night, when I woke I set up generator and went to check on him and he was on his side. We was still alive but not moving at all. I thought it because of lack of oxygen so I put him in a basket near the filter out put and added a air stone
But its been a day and he hasn't recovered, can anybody help me?
Thnks!
 
Did you test your water?

Temperature OK? After a power outage I forgot to plug the heater back in. Tank was fine for that night but not a week with the heater off.

I agree that if it was just O2 he probably would have recovered by now.
 
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If u got some temp appropriate water then I’d suggest a water change asap. Check ur water parameters if able.
 
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Hey everyone, thanks for all your input but sadly he didn't make it through the night. I did my best to keep him alive but whatever his problem was it killed him. Im still confused on what he died from so if you have any ideas please let me know
Thanks
 
Polleni's temperature range is pretty large like in the 60s - 80s, so I would attribute the death to low oxygen levels. I've had way more fish (about twice your bioload) in a tank twice that size, and didn't have any issue with ammonia poisoning for 10 hours of no power. I did have 2 battery operated air pumps to oxygenate the tank during the 10 hours.

I've had fish that died a few days later due to being in low oxygen levels for an extended period of time.
 
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Sorry you lost your fish, that really sucks! I'm thinking about getting a Polleni once i get my 125g back up and running. My mother lives in Healdsburg so I've been keeping on eye on the fires, scary stuff.
Not sure if you were able to test your water and do a large water change but my best guess would be some of your BB dying off without water flowing through your filter and causing an ammonia spike in the tank.
 
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Apparently I was typing at the same time as Rocksor Rocksor and said the opposite of him. He was basing his answer on experience so I'd go with his opinion, low oxygen levels.
 
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That was a beautiful cichlid, sorry for your loss. I also agree it sounded like low oxygen levels, but I think have an airstone in the tank after you found him would have saved him? Please correct me if I'm wrong
 
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