UPDATE to why my Africans are Dying!

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I tried taking some of the fish and putting them into my large tanks upstairs that are good water and the fish drop dead anyway. Whatever was in the water has done damage beyond repair. I brought 55 fish up to my 70 gallon tank and all it did was contaminate that tank and start killing those fish too. Clean water won't do anything but make more dirty water for me to flush out. I mean your talking 2100 gallons. I would have to bring in a tanker of water and then heat it somehow before pumping it into the system.
 
good luck, hope everything works out for you
 
How's things going? Making progress or are you still in waiting mode?
 
wow, im so sorry to hear this! what a horrible loss, hopefully u can get some reimbursement and a future notification if they change the chemistry again!
 
Get anything figured out yet?
 
jhutch;2008042; said:
Luckily I have 15 stand alone tanks that aren't plumbed into the system and 10 tanks in the system that I never opened the vavles to. My breeding groups of Ngara Flametails, Albino and standard Flavescents, Blue Neons, and an empty breeding tank and 8 other growout tanks that I never ran water to are unaffected. Other than that I think everything is a total loss. I am lucky I moved my albino lab juvies and my Eureka Red Male so they are ok. Other than that everything else is probably gonna be total losses. We are talking another 500 or more fish left to die.
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This is the biggest disaster i have ever read about africans.. i am so sorry to hear this... and i had no idea you were such an avid collector of them...and breeder..sounds like you had all my dream fish... are you a wholesaler or is this your home collection.. sounds like you need to contact someone of this loss...
 
I feel so bad !! I had been out of the loop and just read this today. What a disaster. Im so sorry this happened to you. I hope you are able to recoup some of the losses both in money and fish. This is one of the worst things i have ever heard. Is there a way you can put a RO unit or some type of filtering device on your system to filter out the contaminants ? My neighbor had a fuel oil spill and all of us who live around him have heavy duty water filtering systems installed and maintained by the DEC free of charge , the filters remove everything from my water except the sulfur that was there before the spill and is unrelated. The Sulfur is a gas and I remove it myself using air stones and a large tub. If the methane is what is killing your fish is it posiaable to remove it the same way ? You would have to apply air for a couple hours in a seperate holding container then let it drip or be pulled into the tanks from that container. I missed alot so i dont know if that is the only problem or not.
 
thats so messed up, its not even happening to me and im still pissed about it, you better get reimbursed otherwise that would be some bull sh#t!! Good luck man hope its not all a total loss
 
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