Sudden tank death syndrom?

[William]

I'm so very afraid of this..

as seen in another thread, I just had a balloon molly die on me..

and now I just found my youngest Bala Shark [ only 2 inches long... ] dead, and stuck to my filters intake!



Please, whats going on?!

I have no aggressive fish in the tank, I have no outbreak of diases.. Why are my fish starting to die..

 

[vega]

What is the chemical level? NH,NO2,NO3 and pH?

 

[William]

Ammonia is on the downfall, Nitrites are .25ppm., pH is between 6.8 and 7.0, maybe 7.2

 

[Terry]

Like Vega said what we need to do is find out what the parameters of the tank are first.
And then we can go from there.

Never fear everyone is here to help.

 

[An t-iasg]

William, I'm so sorry.

I don't have a community tank; I wish I could be of more help. The only things I can think of are the obvious: check your ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, temperature, pH. Did your temperature fluctuate for some reason? Did you change the way you fed them or something? Did you put in any new water additives? Any new additions to the tank? How is the pl*co -- is he in this tank? Ok, I'll stop rambling. I know you know to check for this stuff. l just wish I could be of more help.

 

[William]

My temputure fluctuations had stopped several days ago, they used to swing between 82 and 86-88f.

And I fed my guys brine shrimp recently.

No water addictives, only new additions were some fiddlers, and my True Albino Pl*co and a very small female betta.


I am in the middle of an Ammonia spike, which is at 2ppm, which I'm combatting with 5gal water changes daily, as well as ammonia absorbant matterials in the filter which is bringing it down quickly.

I already said my pH is between 6.8 and 7.2, and my Nitrites are .25ppm.


Other then the brine shrimp feeding hasn't changed, Omega One Tropical for the fish, Tubifex for the Balas, Shrimp Pellets for the crabs, Hikari Algae Wafers for the CAE and Pl*co and my dwarf african frog gets whatever he wants

however my fish has been fine through this, and its only been the past few days that my smallest Balloon and Smallest Bala died.

Heck, an hour before I found the small Bala on the filter intake, He was swimming around energeticly chasing the biggest Bala in the tank.

 

[William]

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=9262


This death, this death hurts me more than all the others combined..