Re: [GSAS-Member] Thick Water

[Shango Los <shango@shangolos.com>]

Brilliant.  Again, you teach me something I didn't even know enough to
consider, Laurel.

Thanks to you too, Macker.


On 2/17/09 7:54 PM, "Laurel Larsen" <laurelthequeen@gmail.com> wrote:

> What likely happened is that you stirred up a great deal of detritus
> that had either formed anaerobic pockets or just hadn't made it's way
> through the nitrogen cycle, and you had a huge ammonia spike. You
> should consider testing your water for ammonia and nitrites to see if
> you have ANYTHING registering.  A properly cycled tank(with an intact
> nitrogen cycle) shouldn't have readings of ANY ammonia or nitrite.
> Such readings would indicate that stuff that shouldn't have been in
> the water column was.  Heavy breathing is symptomatic of ammonia
> poisoning in fish.   You may consider dropping the tank temperature to
> the low range and slowly dropping the pH as much as is safe.  Ammonia
> is less deadly at lower pH.  Do some reading on old tank syndrome and
> be careful when stirring up detritus.  It's one of the reason that I
> switched to sand in my tank, poo cannot settle between grains of sand.
> 
> On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Shango Los wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I did a serious clean one of my community tanks last night.  During
>> that
>> cleaning, the water churned A LOT.  It became thick with sludge
>> (what is the
>> word for it? Moosh? Melsh?)  Unfortunately, the White Clouds and
>> Guppies
>> began to have difficulty breathing I realized.  Today, I see that I
>> lost 3
>> fish overnight and one more is heavy breathing .  I had no idea that
>> the
>> thick water could be THAT bad for the fish.
>> 
>> Has this ever happened to anyone else?  Where should one draw the
>> line with
>> churning the water?  How can one avoid this?  Is this worse with
>> small fish?
>> 
>> Anything folks have to offer I¹d like to hear.  I don't want to
>> cause this
>> suffering again.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Shango
>> 
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