Just this past week we had a MAJOR disaster in our 30 gallon well established tank.
My son did a 10 gallon water change as he typically does. He added 10 gallons of water from our faucet (also typical) with added Prime to the containers.
Within minutes of adding this water we noticed all of our fish dying. We managed to save about 10 put them in our quarantine tank and half of them died off in the next 2 days. The last 5 are doing well. They are swords, platys and mollies.
We then did a 100% water change and placed a few zebra danios in there as testers. So far so good other than the nitrites being elevated which we were told would happen.
Now I am noticing that all of our plants are dying off and they were BEAUTIFUL and FLOURISHING! The leaves are now see thru and some are browning. Its mostly the Amazon Swords and the Micro swords
We had removed a few "babies" from the Amazon Swords that were growing beautifully and put them in our 60 gallon and they are dying as well.
It seems the only thing that is so far surviving are our Java Ferns.
My question is, can these be saved or do I have to remove all of these plants from the 2 aquariums? I am sick over this as we worked so hard to keep them beautiful. I realize theres probably no real answer as to why this happened but I want to see what can be salvaged.
Thank you in Advance!!
Patti
My son did a 10 gallon water change as he typically does. He added 10 gallons of water from our faucet (also typical) with added Prime to the containers.
Within minutes of adding this water we noticed all of our fish dying. We managed to save about 10 put them in our quarantine tank and half of them died off in the next 2 days. The last 5 are doing well. They are swords, platys and mollies.
We then did a 100% water change and placed a few zebra danios in there as testers. So far so good other than the nitrites being elevated which we were told would happen.
Now I am noticing that all of our plants are dying off and they were BEAUTIFUL and FLOURISHING! The leaves are now see thru and some are browning. Its mostly the Amazon Swords and the Micro swords
We had removed a few "babies" from the Amazon Swords that were growing beautifully and put them in our 60 gallon and they are dying as well.
It seems the only thing that is so far surviving are our Java Ferns.
My question is, can these be saved or do I have to remove all of these plants from the 2 aquariums? I am sick over this as we worked so hard to keep them beautiful. I realize theres probably no real answer as to why this happened but I want to see what can be salvaged.
Thank you in Advance!!
Patti