stressed fish

[LordBarron7692]

You have an oxygen tank just for fish? Balleeeeerrrrrr!!!

nah its for work I just happened to have it in the house but its part of my oxy acetylene torch

[moganman]

If you live close to a river or even a lake, after a rain is normally the worst. The city messes with the chemicals sometimes and the water becomes inconsistent.

[SunnyHouTX]

Re: stressed fish

Agreed. Sometimes they let stuff through that water conditioners don't remove. A carbon bottle took care of that problem for me.

[mistahoo]

so what could the water source be contaminated with?

It can be contaminated through all sorts of things. Especially depends on where you live. If you live by Lake Houston, you're water is going to come from Lake Houston and if they do something with the water, you'll have dirty water. It's happened to members on here before and wiped out hundreds of money in livestock. They had a boil water order for areas up north before because of those "contaminants". A little mistake of a large water change with contaminated water and you're fish are going to die even if you add dechlorinator.

[SunnyHouTX]

Re: stressed fish

& girls!!!

Good save

[mistahoo]

small water change if it rained? why is that?

When it rains, the plant adds more chloramine to the water to kill off pollutants the rain picked up from our atmosphere that goes into their treatment reservoirs. If you were to do a large water change, you're going to be introducing a large amount of chloramines in a short amount of time. Higher chances of your fish dying.

[mistahoo]

prime is strong yup.. you gotta be careful.

And you have to be even more careful with Safe since it's a very concentrated version of Prime.

[mistahoo]

yeah lesson learn luckly I caught it in time time and just pumped oxygen into the tank

You have an oxygen tank just for fish? Balleeeeerrrrrr!!!

[Carkadie]

& girls!!!

[Carkadie]

Thanks for all of the info guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[allysangels]

Yup I like prime better, the so call aloe content in Stress Coat doesn't really work.. it's more like a gimmick.

when i got my first real tank of my own many years ago, i didn't know what i was doing and threw about 250$ worth of fish into a new uncycled 29g tank. as the ammonia rose to toxic levels and my new fishies started dying, i was doing 50% daily WC and overdosing with stress coat because i thought it would help... i got a call one day from my hubby who was at the apartment freaking out threatening to throw the whole thing out because it stank BAD. when i got home, i saw that the water had turned white and foamy, and sure enough, my whole apartment smelled like rotten eggs. i had to return the survivors to the LFS, and break down the whole tank and disinfect everything before setting back up with new gravel and clean water. nasty dangerous stuff. granted i seriously overdid it, but still. i will never use stress coat (or any other "slime coat" product) again.

[Ogrodii]

Re: stressed fish

yeah lesson learn luckly I caught it in time time and just pumped oxygen into the tank

prime works good be careful

[LordBarron7692]

yeah lesson learn luckly I caught it in time time and just pumped oxygen into the tank

[suicune]

yeah I like prime to but damn near wiped a small colony of trophs because of an overdose

prime is strong yup.. you gotta be careful.

[LordBarron7692]

Yup I like prime better, the so call aloe content in Stress Coat doesn't really work.. it's more like a gimmick.

yeah I like prime to but damn near wiped a small colony of trophs because of an overdose