End Of My Journal *heart Broken*

[JamieH]

some more pics taken today.... i'm sure my severum seems to be bigger by the day at the minute.

The engine room!

 

[Sibelius]

I really like the colour in your tank! Full marks!

 

[mikster]

Beautiful fish you have there, very vibrantly coloured, i would just end uo sitting watching them all day.

 

[Mako Man111]

Amazing tank, and awsome looking fish! How many U.S. gallons is it and what is your stocking?

 

[JamieH]

I really like the colour in your tank! Full marks!

Thanks a lot...

Beautiful fish you have there, very vibrantly coloured, i would just end uo sitting watching them all day.

Thanks also... since i've been taking the new life spectrum 10 day challenge, my fish have never looked better. get a tub.

Amazing tank, and awsome looking fish! How many U.S. gallons is it and what is your stocking?

240 litres = 63.4012923 US gallons

Far too small for my fish

I'm planning a 101 US gallon (400 litre) tank for later in the year

Thanks for the compliments

 

[Mako Man111]

I really like the colour in your tank! Full marks!

Thanks a lot...

Beautiful fish you have there, very vibrantly coloured, i would just end uo sitting watching them all day.

Thanks also... since i've been taking the new life spectrum 10 day challenge, my fish have never looked better. get a tub.

Amazing tank, and awsome looking fish! How many U.S. gallons is it and what is your stocking?

240 litres = 63.4012923 US gallons

Far too small for my fish

I'm planning a 101 US gallon (400 litre) tank for later in the year

Thanks for the compliments

Do you think my I could fit a severum into my 105 gallon tank (48"x18"x28"), along with my current stock of an oscar, convict, and firemouth?

 

[JamieH]

I really like the colour in your tank! Full marks!

Thanks a lot...

Beautiful fish you have there, very vibrantly coloured, i would just end uo sitting watching them all day.

Thanks also... since i've been taking the new life spectrum 10 day challenge, my fish have never looked better. get a tub.

Amazing tank, and awsome looking fish! How many U.S. gallons is it and what is your stocking?

240 litres = 63.4012923 US gallons

Far too small for my fish

I'm planning a 101 US gallon (400 litre) tank for later in the year

Thanks for the compliments

Do you think my I could fit a severum into my 105 gallon tank (48"x18"x28"), along with my current stock of an oscar, convict, and firemouth?

It will depend largely on your fish and their personality... if the oscar thinks the tank is his, then a newcomer will get a hard time...

you could try it, but you'll need a BIG filter.

 

[JamieH]

see below

 

[JamieH]

Well.... i'm devastated.



all of my fish are dead.

You may remember that i had whitespot in my tank, which i treated with octozin, then heat... which i thought had done the trick.

Well, last week my fish started flicking again and sure enough three sugar-sized white spots appeared on the tail of my parrot fish. I bought some sterazin online and dosed my tank on thursday.

Friday morning, i got up early to go to the loo... and would never normally go and look at my tank, but as i was up, i thought i'd check my fish were OK.

I was horrified to discover that some of my fish were dead, and the remainder appeared in extreme distress at the surface.


I instantly thought i must've done something wrong with the treatment, so woke dan up and he started rescuing fish into a bucket of clean water and I started emptying the tank. We put the plec into the bathtub because we didn't have bucket big enough for him.

anyway, several more of my fish died in the bucket...

I changed my tank water 100%, hoovered all the sand, scrubbed the decor refilled with plenty of stress cost and stress zyme... sadly thought the fish i put back were in a really bad way... and the plec had gone almost grey in colour.

the fish had all died except the plec by friday night... and the plec seemed to be almost shedding his skin - white mucus was coming off him, but he was active.

Then, yesterday morning, he was dead too. i woke to find him upside down on the sand.

Then I noticed something else... my thermometer was off the scale.


I think my heater must've got stuck on at some point on thursday, and then i added the treament thursday afternoon, and my fish bascially boilled in whitespot treatment over night. I don;t recall the tank water being warm on friday morning, but was on auto-pilot. what are the odds?

To think that i saved my plec, only to put him back in the tank to cause him all that stress when he might've gotten better really upsets me. I also feel really bad that I couldn't get him out quickly enough because i didn;t have a big net and had to try and get him with a tea-towel and my bare hands.

yesterday I just never wanted to fill the tank up again... but today, I'm starting to wonder what i'll do with it next...

anyway, here's a couple of pics dan took on friday morning when we were saving the fish - he thought we might need them if the medication was at fault.

That concludes my cichlid tank journal

 

[Sibelius]

Shocking. I'm really sorry to hear that. My sympathy is with you. Try not to feel that you were at fault, it sounds like you did just what the rest of us would (or if not: should) have done in your situation.

 

[willtang3000]

shame and sorry to hear about your loss what brand is your heater since other users can be cautious about using there heaters again

 

[JamieH]

shame and sorry to hear about your loss what brand is your heater since other users can be cautious about using there heaters again

juwel... but i recently upgraded to a 300w model when i wanted to raise the temp to deal with the whitespot.... if i'd never done that, then the water would never had gotten warm enough.

 

[Joemuz]

I feel so sorry for you, and after all the other trouble you had to deal with
But whatever happens YOU MUST NOT GIVE UP! Don't let life beat you up as it will only get worse and never get better!
Re-do your tank with new substrate and decor and give it your full. Hope you get everything sorted and end up with your dream tank.
DO NOT GIVE UP!!!!! Good luck and hope you get everything sorted.
All the best Joe Keep us all informed on what happens next.

 

[JamieH]

I feel so sorry for you, and after all the other trouble you had to deal with
But whatever happens YOU MUST NOT GIVE UP! Don't let life beat you up as it will only get worse and never get better!
Re-do your tank with new substrate and decor and give it your full. Hope you get everything sorted and end up with your dream tank.
DO NOT GIVE UP!!!!! Good luck and hope you get everything sorted.
All the best Joe Keep us all informed on what happens next.

thanks a lot for your kind words...

i will do something else with it... not sure what yet though.

 

[Joemuz]

I just saw your tank for sale? Dont sell it!!!!!