I do agree that the two fish at the top were probably dead longer than the others at the bottom. I have a thick layer of anacharis at the top and they could have gotten lost in there. However, the fish at the bottom where an overnight thing. When I got into the tank to do a major overhaul, I found several fish in the mess of plants. That lead me to believe that overlooking those fish caused ammonia poisioning. I changed 75% of the water and put new carbon cartridges in my
UGF and changed out the filters in my AGF. In the process of cleaning, I noticed that one of my plecos was starting to tip over and was in fact dying. This morning, he is back up and running
I have five fish left and they are eating and seem to be "dancing" around.
""""Jchillin Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:09 am Post subject:
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Since you have dead fish on both the bottom and the top of the tank, it appears that as the others have said, this could not have occurred over a two day period.
It did in fact occur over a two day period. But now that I have found the "hidden cemetary" it is understandable how it happenend so fast.
The fish at the bottom were covered with what I think may be white hair algae. I have it all over the rocks and it got on them fast.
I am going to do completely overhaul the tank next week. I will take my survivors and put them in the fishy motel until this tank is cycled and ready to go. Oh and
BTW, the tank is a 50gal.