One other thing I forgot... does "Stress-Coat" remove chlorine/chloramine and treat for heavy metals? I know there are some "conditioners" that do other things and I'm not familiar with "Stress-Coat". I did Google it and found this...http://www.pondliner.com/StressCoat.htm so if you have this, it does dechlor the water but I know many people advise against the stuff with Aloe or Slime enhancers. Many more experienced aquarists than me suggest getting something simple like "Chlor-out" which only does the dechlor and heavy metals treatment.
Urgent: Need new filter, which one?
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One other thing, doing 25% PWC's every four hours to remove toxins will not harm your pets as long as you treat the tap water first. If there is visible debris floating in the water, keep vacuuming it as it settles and do 25% PWC's ever four hours until it is reasonably clean.
I'm assuming you took out the UGF. It would have been better to move your fish to a temporary home like a plastic tub with your HOB running in it but if you did remove the UGF with the fish in the tank, you want to keep doing the PWC's to make sure you remove any toxins that were under the UGF plate. Hopefully, with your HOB running and doing PWC's, you will not lose any more fish.
I'm assuming you took out the UGF. It would have been better to move your fish to a temporary home like a plastic tub with your HOB running in it but if you did remove the UGF with the fish in the tank, you want to keep doing the PWC's to make sure you remove any toxins that were under the UGF plate. Hopefully, with your HOB running and doing PWC's, you will not lose any more fish.
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I know that my water is above the normal hardness level. So I make sure to add conditioner and run the water through the PUR filter on the faucet. I hope that this helps with making sure my fish won't die later on when i revamp the current tank. The current fish seem to be hardy enought to handle slight changes.