What To Do Now

[swanseastilo]

So guys you know that i hve lost all my fish bbut 2Right guys I have emptied my tank. The filter is in a bucket of water with the bristlenose. Some questions

1. Can I rinse my plants in tap water

2. When I put the filter back in the tank how will the new water affect it this is a 100 percent water change

3. Any tips you guy can offer would be great.

 

[ZoddyZod]

I would strip the entire tank down, including the substrate, and give it a thorough rinse. You can do that in tap water with no issues.

Replace and start again - a 100% water change is not a concern. Just be sure that you acclimatize the BN slowly back into the tank as you would a new fish (a bit overkill, but better to be safe than sorry).

 

[swanseastilo]

Yeah I'm doing it now tank scrubbed out sand is in hot water now but plants I'm not to sure if Ivan just rinse them.

Cheers zoddy for the reply

 

[Tizer]

I always wash my plants in tap water after buying them anyway, its not a problem.

Did you bother checking your water stats during / after your nightmare / before emptying the tank? There seemed to be plenty of info about the disaster itself, but no solid facts about the state of the water itself.

Did you put the filter in water that was dechlorinated? (in the bucket)

 

[swanseastilo]

Hi yeah I checked stats the only thing was out was nitrate at 40.

Th filter went straight in to a bucket of tap water not touched. I left it run for about 5 mins before adding to the tank. But I already had a filter that had been cycled.

Thanks for your reply tizer

 

[Tizer]

The filter is in a bucket of water with the bristlenose.

This is what i was refering to. Is that bucket of water dechlorinated or is it old tank water or what?

 

[swanseastilo]

It was just tap water not declorinated from the tap it was just for cleaning as the filter was in a box.

 

[Tizer]

oh my word.

You are cleaning out your tank right? You said you have a bristlenose in a bucket, with your filter in the bucket too.

Im trying to work out if you have just put your cycled filter into a bucket of tap water without dechlorinating it.

If this is the case, your cycled filter may have suffered because of the chlorine in the tap water.

 

[swanseastilo]

I'm now cleaning it out because they had all died the filter I added was a spare filter I wanted to use as a back up invade the main 1 failed

No the main cycled filter did not get removed from the tank. Now all my fish are dead I have removed it and put it in a bucket with tank water a heater and the bristlenose

So basically spare filter went in to a bucket of fresh tap water with no dechlorinator . Cycled filter stayed in the tank until this accident.

 

[ZoddyZod]

so to clarify

Bucket 1 - new filter & tap water

Bucket 2 - BN, old filter and tank or dechlorinated water

???

 

[swanseastilo]

Thats correct zoddy