The Worst Day Ever!!!

[Miguel]

What a ****. Could one of the big monsters have died without you noticng it, due to the cloudy water and fouled the whole system?

 

[dark_knights_99]

DO you have feeders in the tank? I think the tank is overcrowded.

 

[Spaz]

I agree with Miguel, one may have been dead for awhile and poisoned the tank.

 

[Spaz]

Did you check the water parameters? Hopefully you didn't put in too much salt. What kind of filter are you running? That's a lot of potential monster fish, any plans for housing them later?

What is considered too much salt? When i suspect flukes i add 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons of water for two weeks and never had an issue.

 

[Horiyoshi III]

Sounds like a case of the old "new tank syndrome".

 

[Miles]

and yeah i plan on getting a 500 gallon.

sweet you just purged the fish that would not have fit in the 500g anyways


Judging by the fact that there is a brown knife and butterfly fish in the tank, all the cats and pacu must have been juvies.

My guess is a 55g.. maybe a 75g?

uh but yeah no surprise it was an ammonia spike that killed your fish.

 

[pcfriedrich]

What is considered too much salt? When i suspect flukes i add 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons of water for two weeks and never had an issue.

that is the correct amount of salt.

 

[Spaz]

Thanks PC.

 

[OnceLoyal]

Ya PC thats fine (the salt)... Sounds like ammonia to me also. I am very sorry to hear about your loss man. You said the water Params are fine though???

 

[yourbestfriend]

So, why did you add the salt? Did you test the water?

Sorry to hear of your loss, this is why when I first see something off, I test the water first off and I do the water change then. I'm not trying to be mean or a smarty pants...and who knows it still may of happened.

Good luck, welcome to MFK.....and keep us updated on what happens.

you saposed to add salt when doin a water change. and its ok, your not being mean. your right. i should of done it at the first sign of something