Dead fish.

I just came this morning and found all my moorii fry fish dead, i checked the water, all levels where fine, th pH was 8.3 which is fine too for cichlids, the only thing that i figure was a piece of dritwood someone gave me and i decided to put it on the tank yesterday afternoon, i when out and came back at 3am, i also figure that the wood was disolving on the water so i think this was the cause for the dead, didnt see the fish till 2pm today when i came back... the johanniis and chitimba fry are fine but stressed, but the moorii couldnt hold it.. so PEOPLE pls be very careful when you get used stuff for tanks and make sure they are good to put with your fish... i just learn my lesson.. its all good anyways.

Yikes! Yes always clean anything used. Boil, bleach, put in sun anything just clean them first. Also driftwood will effect the PH so check out anything (wood, stone, decorations, filters,.......) you're putting in your tanks,

i did cleaned it and boiled it for a bit, the wood has been already been boiled before, bleach..., i dont use that at all in acuariums... i dont trust it., yes i will get more fry from Fern soon..

that sucks so bad! but i think all of us have been there at one time or another. sorry for your lose. kinda like losing you best friend at times.

sorry to hear that, i wonder what happened,

How are they holding up with the many small water changes?

Ya I will give you a net full of moorii fry

sorry bro

dang
i always clean stuff very well when i get something new to me

Remember it's not just cleaning sometimes it's the chemical composition that leaks into the water and fry are sensitive to chemical change. For example driftwood changing the PH. It's usually slow for fish to adjust but if quick enough you can lose fish.

ok thanks

Sorry for the loss!

But see i dont think it affected the pH.., cuz i checked it and it was fine.., the only thing that made me think it was the driftwood was a strange brown layer all around the wood like saw dust.., and the rocks had that also.....Yes Fern i did 3 small water changes, added a sponge filter to pick up all that bad stuff left on the bottom, and after a few hours they were back to normal again...

I hate losing fry. They are so sensitive. I've made it a point now to do nothing to the tank except for topping off the water when the Otos hatch.

So sry to hear about that.

Keep up on the water changes till you're sure you got all the icky stuff out.

I will, im doing 2 more water changes today...

Boy istrober isn't learning a b**th! Good luck with the remaining fry.

FishVixen wrote:

Boy istrober isn't learning a b**th! Good luck with the remaining fry.

What the hell do you mean??? i said im doing 2 more water changes today... tommorrow i will do some more, its only a 39gl tank not so if you thinkn im not learning... guess whatthis morning my fish is all happy again and begging for food... water quality is on the top again and looking good... anything else do you want me to learn??? =)

I didn't mean anything wrong I was just saying when something goes wrong we learn from it. I think you're doing a great job with your tanks and fish and helping others by admitting what has happened in your tanks. Keep up the great work. I was wishing you the best for your remaining fry it was not meant to be sarcastic.

I'm sure we all have had a lethal mistake or two! I know I have!

I'm very glad to hear they are all happy again!! I'm also glad it was just the mooriis, those are easy to replace

ok you may not want it to be sacarstic but it sound it like that sorry , yes Jill my main mistake was accepting used aquarium supplies without inspecting them real good.., i will make sure 100% it wont happen again, i waste money every week on this hobby for stuff like this to happen...

Boy! Have I made blunders over the years! All part of this wonderful hobby! Like manderin gobys!!!!!! I kept buying them and they would die. There was no internet at the time and I was new to saltwater at that time. Thanks Istrober Keep up the great job.

wooow good thing you caught it before it got all the fry ...

fern hook um up with some morri.. lol


hey fern call me i got something you needa come pick up .