tbroder3
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
To start, I am completely devastated.
I need not only advice but some encouragement.
As of last night around 10pm things were great.
Around 5 am I heard a flapping noise. I woke up to find my eel against the back wall on the carpet flipping around. I managed to get him back in the tank after a minute or two. It was difficult because he was behind the tank.
He seemed to be shocked but he was back in the water moving around. I was warned that eels try to escape and can actually get out of tanks. I have this tank properly covered so I was baffled how he did it. Amazing.
Anyway, the eel was back in the tank and I went back to bed. I woke up this morning and found him flat on the sand, dead. I didnt even look around the tank but when I did I realized the lionfish nad the puffer were also dead. The two damsels I have were struggling but still alive.
Like I said, everything was absolutely normal last night. I fed the lionfish some feeder shrimp and he ate with no problem. The eel was even trying to catch the shrimp. He ate his silversides and things were no different than any other night.
I added about 2 gallons of water from our filtered tap which was then treated with aquasafe solution. Again, nothing different , nothing out of the ordinary.
I introduced 4 additional snails and a chocolate starfish to the tank last night as well. Not sure if this could kill my major fish in one night.
I have heard people on here talk about ammonia spikes, could this be a case of that. I dont have any testing stuff currently so I cannot tell you what my water levels are at unfortunately. But 2 fish and 1 eel dead. Please help.
I need not only advice but some encouragement.
As of last night around 10pm things were great.
Around 5 am I heard a flapping noise. I woke up to find my eel against the back wall on the carpet flipping around. I managed to get him back in the tank after a minute or two. It was difficult because he was behind the tank.
He seemed to be shocked but he was back in the water moving around. I was warned that eels try to escape and can actually get out of tanks. I have this tank properly covered so I was baffled how he did it. Amazing.
Anyway, the eel was back in the tank and I went back to bed. I woke up this morning and found him flat on the sand, dead. I didnt even look around the tank but when I did I realized the lionfish nad the puffer were also dead. The two damsels I have were struggling but still alive.
Like I said, everything was absolutely normal last night. I fed the lionfish some feeder shrimp and he ate with no problem. The eel was even trying to catch the shrimp. He ate his silversides and things were no different than any other night.
I added about 2 gallons of water from our filtered tap which was then treated with aquasafe solution. Again, nothing different , nothing out of the ordinary.
I introduced 4 additional snails and a chocolate starfish to the tank last night as well. Not sure if this could kill my major fish in one night.
I have heard people on here talk about ammonia spikes, could this be a case of that. I dont have any testing stuff currently so I cannot tell you what my water levels are at unfortunately. But 2 fish and 1 eel dead. Please help.