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Ok. So I'm still stuck and unable to get home but I've been trying to figure out what happened. The water was warm the day before but the next day the heater wasn't on. My mom unplugged the power strip and plugged it back in and the heater came back on. I'm thinking the heater didn't come on when it should have and the temperature change shocked one or more fish causing them to die and sat in the tank all night decaying causing an ammonia spike killing everything else off.
I'm no expert in fish decay, but would that have caused such a lethal ammo spike so quickly. I would have thought a couple of dead fish would raise the ammonia level after a day or so and the other fish suffer as a result. what ever the cause was, it must have been sudden and devastating to kill all the fish in a day.
I do hope you find the answers when you get back home.
Steve.