Re: Tropheus Duboisi dying

[Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com>]

Trish, where are you located? I hear from locals that people all over 
the Oly area are losing both marine and freshwater fish, something 
changed or was flushed in the local water system. Maybe they did a 
similar thing in your town. Here they apparently decided to double the 
amount of chlorine, maybe even switched to chloramine but nobody knows. 
Whatever it is it's really killing a lot of peoples' tanks. Reef tanks 
especially.
In Portland you could be put on a special list of people to get emails 
if the city water deviated in any way from the norm, they would send 
alerts to people with compromised immune systems, fish stores, etc if 
you signed up. You can check your municipal site and get a link to the 
water bureau and email them to see if such a list exists for your town.
The story about our water chemistry changing comes from two LFS guys 
here. I was wondering why the plants started to die in the big display 
tanks after the last big water change...
Kate

steev ward wrote:

> Trish-
> Sorry that another one died but maybe things will look better tomorrow.
>
> I'm concerned that the fish seem to die after a water change. It makes me
> wonder about the water chemistry (which would affect the duboisi more than
> the other fish). I'll be interested to see if the Epsom Salts helps the
> fishes' behavior, if you get around to trying that. I really think it might
> help.
>
> Save the Maracide for later. You can use it instead of Quick-Cure on
> sensitive species or both together when desperate. The old formula (with
> di-bromo hydroxy mercuroflourescein blah blah blah) was quite effective. I
> have my doubts about the new formula that they started using last year.
>
> Steev
>
> Trish wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Steve-
> >
> > I used the quick - cure today.....and it does seem to
> > bring them around a bit. Before I used it, but after
> > the water change, another one bit the dust....
> >    
>
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