I have a 125 gal that had a stock of 5 bluegill and one common pleco. Today i woke up and 4 of the bluegill were laying on the ground dead, and the other is sucking air at the top. I have a 2 maxijet 1200's and a Rena Filstar xP. The fish are all over a year old and have never had any problems. All the dead ones have no scales and the one who is still hanging on by a thread has lost most of his. What could be the problem. I hastily did a water change without checking paramaters, but they havn't been a problem. they would probably be off the charts anyway with 4 dead fish all nihght anyway. I did a 33% Waterchange on Tuesday and do one a week. I don't know what i did wrong. The only thing i can guess is I had a party on Holoween, and someone may have dumped beer in there with me not looking. Would that be enough to cause this. Any and all help to figure this out would be appreciated.
Mystery Carnage
- Thread starter atizzil
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my cousin's roomate had someone dump beer into her 20 gallon and the fish survived, if someone dumped somthing in the tank it was either alot of beer of maybe something stronger than beer
I have finished the water change and the other bluegill seems to be doing better. It's not swimming around as much as usual but it isn't floating at the top either so hopefully all works out for the 2 survivors. The pleco didn't seem too phased from whatever happened. I'm jsut really confused from what could have happened.
Update: The bluegill and pleco are doing fine, you couldn't tell anything went wrong except the fact that the tank looks empty. My girlfriend thinks she found the problem. At the party someone found some dried up worms on the porch and tossed them in. Could there be something wrong with the worms. I know the lawn isn't treated, and get worms from it all the time. Could it be that the worms were dried up that did it. The one survivor only ate 1 while the rest ate a bunch i was told so im thinking this is why he survived.
I agree with the lock idea, i have beeen trying to figure how to make something for it. I was thinking of some kind of clamp or something but its hard to lock something so big. I think i just may take the easier route and lock my bedroom door the next party and keep an eye on the ones in the family room. People really need to learn to hold their alcahol better.
I doubt very seriously a worm could have done that unless he was completely soaked in some sort of very powerful l poison which is very unlikely since you've been using worms from the yard, fish are very tough. More likely someone dumped something in the tank at some point possibly even put cigarette butts in the filter or something like that. Nicotine is very poisonous and is often used as an insecticide, it doesn't take very many cigarettes to kill a person much less a few fishes