imissmytruck
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- May 8, 2012
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Three days ago I lost my entire tank. I am still overly depressed about it. It started when one of my roselines had popeye. I don't have a hospital tank so had to treat the whole tank with severely reduced amounts of Epsom and Myracyn. Cured in one day! Then my plants started to show weakness to the salt....so I started major water changes two and three days apart. After a week all my water parameters were in great range. But my Cypress Halferi started to show BBA. So I did a treatment of Flourish Excel with the filter turned off. A treatment I've done a thousand times! My son and I went bowling for an hour and a half. Got home.....all dead. Except my giant pleco and one emerald rainbow. My LFS said I could bring them in to their hospital tank. The minute we stepped out of the car....the Emerald turned over....gone. The pleco lived and was adopted the next day. Thankfully. Please all of you out their....be careful. Funny thing is....my LFS pros said they believe my water changes made the water to clean and restarted the cycle, which they say most likely killed my fish. I don't think I agree. Like I said (and no I do not remember the exact parameters after I did the immediate tests), the parameters were all in great levels.
The wife says we should restart the tank. I am so depressed right now that I am not sure I could do it again. I fear that now I am going to kill everything.
In memory of all my loved ones here is a list of what I lost.
Three Roselines.
Three Dyed skirt tetras
One Emerald Rainbow
One (beautiful) Parkisoni Rainbow
One Turquoise Rainbow
One giant Albino Rainbow Shark (the wifes favorite)
One very old Dojo Loach
I am very sorry my fishies......
I have put in new substrate (red fluorite), replanted all my plants and restarted the cycle. I am still not sure if I wanna get new fish. I feel I don't deserve them.
I apologize for my depressive rant.
The wife says we should restart the tank. I am so depressed right now that I am not sure I could do it again. I fear that now I am going to kill everything.
In memory of all my loved ones here is a list of what I lost.
Three Roselines.
Three Dyed skirt tetras
One Emerald Rainbow
One (beautiful) Parkisoni Rainbow
One Turquoise Rainbow
One giant Albino Rainbow Shark (the wifes favorite)
One very old Dojo Loach
I am very sorry my fishies......
I have put in new substrate (red fluorite), replanted all my plants and restarted the cycle. I am still not sure if I wanna get new fish. I feel I don't deserve them.
I apologize for my depressive rant.