rjcatlin
Aquarium Advice Regular
Guys,
The other day I had to shut a breaker off to do some electrical work. The breaker I turned off just happen to go to my aquarium outlet. After I restored power everything came back on. My air pump was running, but not supplying air. I don't have check valves on the air lines because my air pump is maxed out for the tank size (60 gal), and it won't supply a lot of air if I put them on.
At least a day or so later I noticed I had some pretty sick fish on my hands. My parrot went from bright pink to almost white. And my africans were all gasping.
My question to the forum is:
Could something in my water chemistry be off that would make this happen? Or is having air being put into the tank that important.
Regards,
rjcatlin
The other day I had to shut a breaker off to do some electrical work. The breaker I turned off just happen to go to my aquarium outlet. After I restored power everything came back on. My air pump was running, but not supplying air. I don't have check valves on the air lines because my air pump is maxed out for the tank size (60 gal), and it won't supply a lot of air if I put them on.
At least a day or so later I noticed I had some pretty sick fish on my hands. My parrot went from bright pink to almost white. And my africans were all gasping.
My question to the forum is:
Could something in my water chemistry be off that would make this happen? Or is having air being put into the tank that important.
Regards,
rjcatlin