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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:10:31 -0700
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Subject: [GSAS-Member] Hello & help!
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I am a newbie, & started getting emails from this list the day after the
September meeting -- darn! I'm looking forward to the October meeting
with bated breath, though.
Though I am a newbie, I've already acquired 6 tanks, & have 3 really set
up, & 1 functioning as a quarantine tank. Nobody warned me this hobby was
addictive.
But I need help over something that has me completely puzzled. All my
tanks are planted, & my first one, a 39 gallon, is mature, with no ammonia
or nitrite showing up at all. I'm doing a 15% water change each week,
which is keeping the nitrates really low. It is heavily planted, and I'm
delivering CO2 with a homemade system that seems to be working well --
when I did a hardness & ph test, it showed CO2 in the optimal range. It
is slightly acidic, about 6.8. I'm running a AquaClear 300 filter, but it
was used and doesn't seem to be quite as efficient as another of the same
model that I have on a smaller tank, but it's close. Everything I can
test is spot on.
There is a little too much algae, so I'm trying to work on that with
learning appropriate feeding levels & getting algae eaters in there.
So here's the problem. My fish are dying. They seem to go in groups, one
breed at a time. At first it was either ich or velvet (I don't really
know the difference, haven't seen them in person), which I treated with
Maracyn on the advice of the Fish Store. I lost my 4 gold rams & 2 blue
german rams, my silver hatchets, & my 3 younger Serpae tetras (my 4 adults
are still fine). That was during the ich/velvet outbreak, which taught me
the wisdom of quarantine tanks, and my 20 gallon is quarantining 2 adult
angels, & a 3 gallon is now quarantining some penguins and chinese algae
eaters.
Then I lost my 4 marbled angels (about 1" long each). Then my 2 siamese
algae eaters died (which isn't helping the algae situation, but it will
almost a month before the new ones are out of quarantine). In the last 24
hours I've lost my six silver-tipped tetras & my six marbled hatchets.
Right now I've got 5 bronze corys, 4 adult serpae tetras, a talking
catfish, a bamboo shrimp, a few rainbow shrimp, & 2 ghost shrimps, plus 2
fiddler crabs. I'm not seeing any other fish in there.
I cannot imagine what is going wrong! Any advice of what to do next, or
what to look for next, would be appreciated.
Anita Jacobson
BTW, some fish gave a warning that they were sick (the silver hatchets &
the angels both started hanging out at the surface instead of swimming
around).
Some fish obviously died from ich/velvet. But some, like my marble
hatchets, gave no warning at all. Swimming around happily one night,
every single one of them floating the next morning.
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