So my little brother just called me at work. All of his fish are dead or dying. I will not be home till later but I wanted to get this thread started so that when I do get home, I have some ideas what might have went wrong. Here are the details of his tank.
10 gallon planted (low tech, low light)
Regular gravel
5-15g whisper filter
10watt heater
A scuba man bubbler
Anuba (the bulbs you get from WalMart) plants that grow like weeds
Fish:
1 black molly
1 white molly
4 Neon Tetras
5 Cherry Barbs
He has been having an algae problem. So he changed his water, 50% change I think. They were fine after the change. Then a little bit later they started acting funny and then began floating. He told me his filter and bubbler was on, so lack of O2 is ruled out I think.
My only guess is that he put the fish in shock with a 50% change but, he had changed more in the past (once I told him that was bad, he didn’t do it again.) My question is why would 11 fish die all of the sudden maybe over the time of 30-45 minutes?
Any ideas are appreciated. I just talked to him; all of the fish are dead. I told him to leave everything, but from what he told me all of the water parameters looked fine. I will test ammonia when I get home.
10 gallon planted (low tech, low light)
Regular gravel
5-15g whisper filter
10watt heater
A scuba man bubbler
Anuba (the bulbs you get from WalMart) plants that grow like weeds
Fish:
1 black molly
1 white molly
4 Neon Tetras
5 Cherry Barbs
He has been having an algae problem. So he changed his water, 50% change I think. They were fine after the change. Then a little bit later they started acting funny and then began floating. He told me his filter and bubbler was on, so lack of O2 is ruled out I think.
My only guess is that he put the fish in shock with a 50% change but, he had changed more in the past (once I told him that was bad, he didn’t do it again.) My question is why would 11 fish die all of the sudden maybe over the time of 30-45 minutes?
Any ideas are appreciated. I just talked to him; all of the fish are dead. I told him to leave everything, but from what he told me all of the water parameters looked fine. I will test ammonia when I get home.