My Pictus Catfish are dead why?

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HarlanAshmore

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I woke up this morning looked in my tank to see my two pictus cats floating around upside down dead i don't know why im staaying in a caravan in my garden at the moment cuz we got our floorboards polished and theres chemicals n stuff but they were no where near the chemicals i dont have any testing equipment i have asked santa so fingers crossed but i dont think ammonia is the problem cuz iv got a filter full of eheim bio media thats been in there for months any one got any ideas.
 
without testing ammonia/nitrite/nitrate it is hard to get a good idea as to why this might have occurred
 
some chemicals emit fumes that are strong enough to impact fish tanks. they dont have to be near the chemicals just near where they have been used.
 
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No one can tell you why they have died from the information you've provided.

Take a couple hundred mililiters of water to a LFS to be tested for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. Wright down the results.

Did you make any changes to the tank prior to their death?
 
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