the biggest mistake of fish keeping EVER!

[jay_leask]

so i was rushing to do a water change before work today and managed to wipe out almost my whole tank! thinking about it now about how much aquaplus i put in my tank it was probably 3x's the amount i needed. i usually use the big bottle with the pump but i used all that so i got a smaller bottle that you measure out the dose. i wouldnt of even thought twice about it but i got a call from my girlfriend saying that my fire eel and a bunch of loaches have died! i cant believe i did this im on my way home now to check the disaster

[Arcteryx]

Oh man... hope you manage to salvage some of it - what an awful feeling. Just drive home safe and get there in one piece. Good luck.

[jobber604]

Hope your other fishies faired well.

[Tarobot]

it could be something to do with the water change, it's usually difficult to overdose stuff like chlorine remover, Prime's bottle says up to 5times the regular amount could be used in an emergency. was it a big water change? what size was the tank? maybe there was a large PH flux? maybe there was water pipe construction in the area :O

[cichlid]

it could be something to do with the water change, it's usually difficult to overdose stuff like chlorine remover, Prime's bottle says up to 5times the regular amount could be used in an emergency. was it a big water change? what size was the tank? maybe there was a large PH flux? maybe there was water pipe construction in the area :O

Ya I totally agree, you csnt over nutralize clorine! Could there have been dirt or something on your hands?

[jay_leask]

18.5" fire eel 6" clown loach and a 4" clown loach. every week i do at least 50% water change. checked the PH and its fine. i took out my caves and pvc to see if there were any dead in those and the rest seem fine. but the pvc was very slick feeling.

[jay_leask]

well that what i was wondering if it was at all possible to over do aquaplus

[jay_leask]

for now it seems like my other 18 CL's are fine. i got my girlfriend to do a water swap for me while i was at work.

[gklaw]

Sorry to hear. Hope the rest are doing well. Keep us posted.

We all have our stories:

Last year, I turned off the cansiter filters to feed two tanks (55g and 75g) of discus. Fell asleep and woke up like 6 or 9 hours later. 55g has no air or circulation the entire time. All discus in the 55g gasping for air. Two were dear or almost dead. Having to rush to work to finish a deadline, I grab all the discus (15 or so) and chuck them into the 75g where the 25 discus seemed to be well. When I came home from work in the evening, I realized the canister filter for the 75g was off as well. Lucky I had a sponge filter in the 75g or else a total wipe out of over 40 discus including 3 that I was sitting for another member ! I think I lost 2-4 discus in that mistake.

After that, airstones in all my FW tanks.

I made another huge one 5 years ago that wiped out almost all my SW fish in a 75g linked to a 105g including my very first fish, a coral beauty that I had for 8-9 years, and a yellow tang that had been in captivity for almost 20 years.

[jay_leask]