Re: [GSAS-Member] Hello & help!

["A JACOBSON" <amjacobson52@msn.com>]

Aeration beyond my aqua clear 300 filter?
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  From: Bob and Judy Holmes<mailto:jbholmes@nwlink.com> 
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  Hello Anita.
  I had a similar experience with fish hanging out near the surface recently, 
  only with no fish loss. This occured in a tank with a heavy fish load. the 
  fish seemed stressed early in the morning and hung near surface before the 
  lights came on, in a planted tank. After the lights came on and the plants 
  started producing O2 and consuming CO2 things were fine. I added aeration. 
  Problem solved.
  Bob

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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.
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  >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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