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spoiledgirl
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From:palmdale
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posted 08-18-2003 08:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spoiledgirl   Click Here to Email spoiledgirl     Edit/Delete Message
This is my first message board, I am so upset I had to find someone to listen. About a month ago I rearranged my room and moved the tank, I know I took out too much water and did not remove any fish, as soon as I got the tank refilled and in it's new spot, one of my redtailed sharks jumped out hit his head on the bedpost and died. The other shark is swimming crazy running into the glass and doing back flips and leaps out, I lost all my males two marble mollies,one silver mollie and one small tetra. the scavenger was changing colors and everyone just went to the bottom of the tank and stared at me. There were 3 pregnant female mollie's. Two eventually gave birth, but one my favorite stayed over due until this morning, when first woke up and did not see her I knew something was wrong, and I found her with a hole in her side. Two days ago a blue guarmi died one of my oldest fish and now the gold one looks sick. They usually hide and he's just laying in the front of the tank. I had the water tested and it's fine. Could it be the tank?

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kc5gvn
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posted 08-19-2003 12:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for kc5gvn     Edit/Delete Message
It sounds like your fish are in PH shock. Even though the water checks fine, what I believe has happened when you added the new water you went from acid (aged) water, to alkaline (new) water without buffering the PH. This caused the fish to go into PH shock. I use Novaqua to buffer the PH with every water change.

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gr8fuljames
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posted 08-20-2003 03:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for gr8fuljames   Click Here to Email gr8fuljames     Edit/Delete Message
I agree I know someone that had the same problem with ph changing. They also had red tail sharks two of their's jumped and the rest of the fish were "convulsing"
and "spinning around"
If you move your tank around in the future try to keep at least half of the water by putting it in buckets or coolers.
I bought a bunch of five gal. buckets for this reason. I got them pretty cheap from white castle they had pickles in them so I just had to rinse out and they were ready to go.

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Horshac
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posted 08-20-2003 04:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Horshac     Edit/Delete Message
Using used buckets isn't such a good idea. Plastic is poris (spelling) and keeps a little bit of whatever you put in there. This can harm your fish. I'm glad it worked for you James, but be cautioned in the future. Never use buckets that you have used to clean with; this will surely kill your fish or send tem into shock.

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gr8fuljames
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posted 08-20-2003 05:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for gr8fuljames   Click Here to Email gr8fuljames     Edit/Delete Message
That's why I sought out food grade buckets you should not have a problem with that. As for the waste buckets I don't have any experience in that as I do keep those buckets seperate just because I'm lazy and don't even rinse them out I just dump out the waste water and store them away.

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