baobeiiiiiiii
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I had a healthy tank, 15 cardinal tetras, 4 siamese algae eaters, and around 10 shrimp of different variaties.
Yesterday I swapped out my eheim classic green tubing for some clear tubing (it was advertised as PVC and aqaurium safe).
Skip forward 12 hours, the lights come on and the shrimp are dead, the SAE's are barely moving and the tertra's aren't eating. The surface of the water smells like petrol/plastic and there's a thin pastic layer coating the glass.
What can I do? I've already turned off the filter and taken it out of the tank and done a 50% water change. I'm concerned that some chemical from the new filter tubing is responsible. If so, I have no idea if the tank is now 'chernobyl' or if I can get away with simply doing water changes and using a better quality filter tubing. If the plastic leached some chemical that fast, isn't my entire tank now toxic no matter what I do?
Yesterday I swapped out my eheim classic green tubing for some clear tubing (it was advertised as PVC and aqaurium safe).
Skip forward 12 hours, the lights come on and the shrimp are dead, the SAE's are barely moving and the tertra's aren't eating. The surface of the water smells like petrol/plastic and there's a thin pastic layer coating the glass.
What can I do? I've already turned off the filter and taken it out of the tank and done a 50% water change. I'm concerned that some chemical from the new filter tubing is responsible. If so, I have no idea if the tank is now 'chernobyl' or if I can get away with simply doing water changes and using a better quality filter tubing. If the plastic leached some chemical that fast, isn't my entire tank now toxic no matter what I do?