Tank problem

[twentyleagues]

I had someone over for the first of the three days that fed them frozen shrimp and that was it

3 days is nothing. I wouldn't have bothered having anyone mess around with my tanks for that little time.
That looks like damage like from fighting or running into something. Hith doesn't happen overnight, it's a process of improper care over a longer time period.
3 days 2 dead fish 1 damaged fish doesn't add up with pristine water parameters. Was there damage to the dead fish bodies?

 

[Carter020108]

3 days is nothing. I wouldn't have bothered having anyone mess around with my tanks for that little time.
That looks like damage like from fighting or running into something. Hith doesn't happen overnight, it's a process of improper care over a longer time period.
3 days 2 dead fish 1 damaged fish doesn't add up with pristine water parameters. Was there damage to the dead fish bodies?

What was weird about the Texas cichlids body was the there was no heeded fins but it looked like it’s eyes where popping out of its head the water was white and slimy when it was crystal clear when I got sick

 

[twentyleagues]

What was weird about the Texas cichlids body was the there was no heeded fins but it looked like it’s eyes where popping out of its head the water was white and slimy when it was crystal clear when I got sick

I wonder if "some" shrimp was an S-load of shrimp. You probably had an ammonia spike and then a bacteria bloom which caused stress and low oxygen content. That's assuming everything was "pristine" as you stated. Unsure why your fishes eyes were popping out. How was the mbu?

 

[The Morning]

I have left my tank unattended for 8 days with zero issues. Something went sideways here for fish to deteriorate that quickly.

 

[Carter020108]

The mbu looked fine except it had a bump on its stomach but that’s it I wonder if the shrimp was possibly expired because I told the care giver to give blood worms I didn’t even know I had shrimp

 

[duanes]

I have gone on vacations for up to 2 weeks, and not fed.
Most fish do well with an occasional clean out.
The only time I ever a had a problem, was when I hired a teen to feed, and he over did it. (even after explicit instructions not to)
When I walked in after the trip, as soon as I walked in the house, I could smell death. ( I think his mom spelled him once)
So never again. I also tried mechanical feeders (garbage)
I find most fish, can take many weeks without being fed.
The things I worry most about, are malfunctioning filters and pumps

 

[esoxlucius]

There are enough things that can go wrong whilst we're away as it is, and adding "feeding" is just needlessly adding to that list imo, and experience.

Up to a couple of weeks absence, even three weeks, I wouldn't have any feeding plan in place at all. After all, If you have a feeding plan in place, whether it's automated or your great aunt Beryl does it, simply means you need to have some kind of a water change plan in place too, which is another potential nightmare in your absence if someone else is doing it.

Big water change before you go. No feeding. Water change when you get back. That's me, though I don't breed so I don't have any fry or juveniles to feed. That would need a different approach.

 

[LBDave]

Overwhelmingly agree with not feeding fish if on vacation etc.

 

[Carter020108]

The severum has gotten worse it keeps randomly swimming upward and this is what it looks like it’s only in him and not the other fish though

 

[Carter020108]