Johnny Tuttle
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Well, I did a PWC on my 21 gallon last evening, and I lost my male platty overnight (I have 10 neons, a trio of guppies [plus fry], and now two female platties).
The timing means I did something wrong in the PWC, I'd think. I had conditioned the new water and let it warm up to room temperature before adding it to the tank. I tried to follow the general book on doing this completely.
The bucket I'd used to contain the new water--after buying it, I'd washed it in dish water, but I'd rinsed it thoroughly and a little obsessively. I'm scared here's my answer--scared because if any remnant soap made it into the tank, then all of fish are at risk, and I wouldn't know how to fix this without changing too much water too quickly. The male platty was swimming poorly and strangely immediately following the change, though; that would seem too quick.
Now, I'll confess that I'm convinced my others are behaving differently, but that might be more that I'm concerned.
Nuts.
The timing means I did something wrong in the PWC, I'd think. I had conditioned the new water and let it warm up to room temperature before adding it to the tank. I tried to follow the general book on doing this completely.
The bucket I'd used to contain the new water--after buying it, I'd washed it in dish water, but I'd rinsed it thoroughly and a little obsessively. I'm scared here's my answer--scared because if any remnant soap made it into the tank, then all of fish are at risk, and I wouldn't know how to fix this without changing too much water too quickly. The male platty was swimming poorly and strangely immediately following the change, though; that would seem too quick.
Now, I'll confess that I'm convinced my others are behaving differently, but that might be more that I'm concerned.
Nuts.