Re: What in the heck!?

["Chris Jewell" <chris@jewell68.freeserve.co.uk>]

Thats not good to hear Brian

What are all the water parameters like? It does sound like the carbon has
triggreed something, but that could just be coincidence. You say you rinsed
it before adding it to the filter?

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Ahmer <ahmer.1@osu.edu>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:27 AM
Subject: What in the heck!?


>
>
> Here's a stumper for you.  I have a 75 gallon planted tank.  It has
> potting soil under gravel for a substrate, tons of plants, some
> cory's, 2 discus, 2 viejita, 4 rams.  I have a Magnum 350 hooked to
> it just to circulate the water (no filter media in it).  The water
> was tap cut with RO.   The pH never wanted to drop naturally so I
> added seachem acid buffer on occasion to keep the pH under 6.5.  All
> the fish have been great since I started the tank 6 months ago.  Rams
> spawned all the time but babies would disappear.  OK, enough
> background...
>
> Two days ago, I opened the Magnum 350 and added a canister of rinsed
> Black Diamond carbon.  Today, I came home and all of the fish were
> dead except 1 ram and 1 cory.
>
> What's up with that!?
> --
>
> Brian Ahmer
> ahmer.1@osu.edu
> http://www.angelfire.com/or/biggestbri
>
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