I have a filter that has 2 hoses. water in water out basically. My tank is a 100 gallons. 93 to be exact. I have an oscar, arowana, pleco, bala shark and a blood parrot. They live great together. Last night I'm assuming the wind pushed the hose with the water pouring out enough for it to drain out half in the tank and half out because when I woke up and went outside there was probably only 20 gallons left in the tank. Surprisingly no casualties. I filled the tank up, used the conditioner but now i'm worried that the fish will have new tank syndrome or whatever it's called. I've had the tank for almost a month now. When i put the new water in I tried to mix the gravel and bring up some of that bacteria because it's all I had and scooped out fish poop at the same time. I used stress-x but there was only enough for 10 gallons worth. They're acting normal and eating normal too. My local fish store was the one that gave me stress-x but he gave me a sample pack that did 10 gallons cuz he sold out. Should I run over to petsmart and pick some up? Is it worth buying it if my fish are acting the same? It's been 5 hours now.
water drained out of tank
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Your beneficial bacteria lives in your filter media and to some extent in the decor (substrate, rock, wood, etc.) so as long as the tank was cycled to begin with then all this was really is a large water change which shouldn't hurt your stock.
Should be fine. Your only worry with that much water being removed is if you used water condition which you said you did. Most of the bacteria colonies are in the filter. Yes some live in the gravel but the main source is the filter. Also disturbing the gravel is not needed it should of been left alone. Sometimes digging it up or turning it over will harm the bacteria colonies.
If you have a liquid test kit I would just check your water levels (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates) from day to day just to be sure a mini cycle doesn't start up. If it does then get ready for water changes.
If you have a liquid test kit I would just check your water levels (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates) from day to day just to be sure a mini cycle doesn't start up. If it does then get ready for water changes.
i just put my carbon filter in today cuz my oscar had ich. my tank was running without it for 5 days and i did partial water changes every day for the days i was treating my oscar.
i only poured it on the left side of the tank same spot every time. I didn't want to stress out the fish especially the arow since i just got him a week ago and he's still scared every time he sees me.
my tank is 5ft long and all the fish stay together on the right side in the corner. so i probably just destroyed the bacteria colonies on the left but it was probably a half foot in diameter that the rocks were moved by water.
I don't think your fish are staying in the right corner because you disturbed some substrate on the left. Where is your heater located? Also how were you treating the ich? Temp increase + salt?
i meant i poured water on the left side because they all swim together in the right hand corner where the heater is. I treated it with rid-ich and a temp increase.