WC Azuls dead within 3 hours :( What happened?

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Was there oxygen in the bag? Sometimes, when you float the bag for too long, the pressure from water squeeze the oxygen out, so your fish suffocated. Once you release them in your tank, your water temp was 90, most likely it didn't have much of dissolved oxygen, and that made it worse.
 
I will drip acclimate next time or at least do the bucket method and hopefully nothing like this will ever happen again. Lesson learned
 
more than likely the Ph difference was to much and shocked the "life" out of them. Also 40minutes is no where near enough time for them to get accustomed to 90* water, considering the water in the bag was probably around 80* to begin with, temperature fluctuation can be a real killer. so either one of those or both could have been the killer. Next time you buy fish, simply open the bag, add an airstone and use the drip method, save yourself some money. To quote the kid saying he just throws his fish in and never has a problem, I highly doubt that, Maybe you're in fact telling the truth, but your luck will run out eventually and just pray it's not a 300$+ fish.
 
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Good advice thank you. I will definitely do that next time. I plan on redeeming myself with a pair of tems this weekend. I'm going to make sure my temp is normal and I will use the drip method. Really was an expensive lesson this time, a couple of hundred dollars and 2 lives
 
The best of luck with your future tems. And I don't think there's anything wrong with keeping your tank at 90* it'll actually imho improve the survival rate of small Pbass. It's the transition of them going from 80* bag water to the 90* tank water that's the problem. Usually when raising water temp, I won't raise it more than 1* a hour, but I'm cautious when it comes to smaller fish.
 
other than the drip method, maybe lower your tank temp to 85ish then once your fish are dripped and in the tank doing well, slowly raise it back to 90 over a 24 hour period.

just my advice, i'm a overly cautious person :D
 
I actually don't keep my temp that high. It's usually at 86 but it was a very hot day and it must have risen to due environmental conditions. I have since lowered my heaters to 84 in hopes that if it does happen again it won't go that high. I need to do more experimenting with that over the next few days to find the optimal setting
 
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