Horrible Day!

[StingrayKid]

Okay, I just got back from a two day trip with my reletives. I fed, cleaned, and tested my tanks before I left. When I entered my room when I got back yesterday, I dropped everything in my hands and my jaw dropped like two feet. My 30 gallon was totally covered in a brown cloud and fish were floating dead everywhere. I had two survivors. My beloved ropefish, Rufus II and my Salvani Chichlid, who this morning is beleived to have jumped out of his temporary 10 gallon home, then eaten by a cat. What the hell happened!? I later called my grandmother to ask if she saw anything while she fish-sat. She said no and everything was fine with the tanks. I heard about a power surge. My theory is that one of my fish died and then the power surge hit and knocked out the filter, causing mass destruction. Well, the whole tank smelled like sewage, so that baffled me. But now all, exept Rufus II, are dead.

 

[Annastasia]

Aww, I'm so sorry about your loses
It must have been horrible for you to come back to that.

 

[appleblossom]

Oh thats awful!

is Rufus II still ok?

 

[snowyangel]

I'm so sorry to hear that StingrayKid. Maybe your grandma also over feed them, then when your filter went out, toxic levels(like amonia and nitrite) rose quickly, which could be another reason why your fish jumped out. Just a though .
I'm you have a quick recovery and good luck with the remaining survivors.

 

[Arashi]

Oh my gosh, thats horrible! I'm so sorry for you and your fishies! I'm glad to hear that Rufus II has survived though...how is he doing now?

 

[StingrayKid]

Rufus is doing fine now. He's hangin' out in my 10 gallon for the next few days and then he'll be moving back to the 30. I clean it out late last night, right into the moring hours. It's still a bit cloudy and smelly, but, the tank looks pretty good. I'll wait a couple days before I put rufus back in, along with the "MIA" chichlid, which I thought was dead, but I found him just now.

 

[Dwarfs]

Good old tough ropefish. THEY ARE INVINCIBLE!!!!! It smeled like sewage? Or do you mean fish poo?

 

[TorPeteO]

Geez, I'm really sorry to hear that. Where did you find the Cichlid? I hope your remaining fish do alright.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

That really sucks. Glad you had at least two survivors though. Good luck with them.

 

[SimonA]

Get a surge protector asap

 

[nutter]

i feel for ya

 

[Cavafish]

Aw man I'd be devastated. That is not good.


Chin up and smother those survivors with TLC

 

[StingrayKid]

Damn straight I'm getting a surge protector! Both survivors are doing great and are very happy. They will be both moved into their origional tank in a day or two, after I do some more tests and put in the new orniments, which I'm buying tomoarrow. And yes, I think it was fish poop, which smelled just like sewage.

 

[MrMashashin]

yea I'm sorry for what happened to you I'm working on a Filter Backup System
or in other words the FBS. You'r tradgic (i think thats how its spelt) loss has made me concerned about my fishys safty and inspired me to make this system for when the power goes out!
I'f and when I get this prodject completed I will try to get a .MOV movie file of how it works! I hope my creation will actualy work.

My remote subersable camera project was killed becuase i didn't feel like buying more bateries for the toy submarine moter.

 

[StingrayKid]

The tank's clear now and my Ropefish is back in there. Everything's cool now.