The Mighty Khan wrote:
> Well it has been one of those weeks, I have 3 tanks at home, 1x4ft with
gold
> fish 1x4ft with angels and guppies and 1 x 6ft with 5 silver sharks, 2
> Salmon Catfish, 5 tiger barb (These 3 groups were around 2 years old),
4
> angels and 1 clown loach
>
> I also have a small 2ft tank on my desk at work with a 14month old yabby
and
> 5 adult guppy's and around 13 4week old fry.
>
> I cleaned my work tank on saturday and my 6ft tank sunday. I took about
20%
> out of my home tank. I added the water ager and some stress coat for the
> salmons.
>
> Monday morning one of the salmons were sluggish, thought nothing of it,
i
> got to work and all the guppys were huddled together.
>
> Tuesday at work all the fry at work had disappeared and 2 adults were
> floating. I got home tuesday night and the salmons were covered in a
white
> slime, I put in some more stress coat and some ich away.
>
> Wedensdasy morning I had lost the salmons, 4 barbs, 1 angel and clown
but
> the silver sharks were fine. The water still had a strong chlorine
smell.
> I took the sharks and the remaining angels and barb out and put them in
a
> hospital tank. They are fine now.
>
> I got to work that morning and all my guppys at work were dead, i
changed
> the water and the bucket of new water smelled like when you walk into an
> indoor pool centre.
>
> I am sure it was the chlorine as all levels in all the tanks were right.
>
> I asked if Hunter water had added any more chlorine after the rain of
last
> week. I just got the reply at the bottom of this page. I am not
buying a
> rainwater tank to collect water from the roof as it won't have the added
> chemicals.
>
> Steve
>
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How awful! I'm so sorry for your losses.
An idea to deal with your tapwater - you can buy a swimming pool
chlorine test kit for very little money and adjust the amount of
dechlorinator you add.
Rainwater has it's own pitfalls since it brings fine particles and
pollution down with it. You will also have to purchase buffers to make
the rainwater suitable for your fish as rainwater is extremely soft and
has no buffering capacity.
Oz thought he lost fish from rainwater bringing down jet fuel. In parts
of the US, rain contains sulfuric acid from coal emissions. I noticed
that sometimes my fish were stressed after a half rainwater/half
tapwater water change so I think that even my strategy of waiting until
a storm is partway through to start collecting may not be good enough.
Like Oz, I'm fairly close to an air****t and a major freeway as well.
HTH, and again I'm sorry about your fish.
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