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Permalink Reply by Connor on November 15, 2011 at 8:40pm

is your water properly oxygenated? do you have tropical temperatures?

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Permalink Reply by scott farmer on November 16, 2011 at 5:00am

i run a air pump with 2 stones, a external ehiem and a internal powerhead. tempreture yes tropical i usually run it a between 24-27 degrees.

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Permalink Reply by Hmoobthor on November 15, 2011 at 8:57pm

how are u doing your maintenance?

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Permalink Reply by scott farmer on November 16, 2011 at 5:05am

once a week i take out about 25% of the water, clean the glass replace the water with fresh dechlorinated water i also add a stress zyme and stress coat and as most off us do i would estimate the temp off the water i'm adding. everything seems to feed ok and my plants are growing well, just can't work it out. the only diseases that i could see was that one off cory's had a small white spot but it has not got worse nore spread to anything else.???

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Permalink Reply by Connor on November 16, 2011 at 8:01am

that white spot is ick. you wana treat that before other fish get it too

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Permalink Reply by Hmoobthor on November 16, 2011 at 12:22pm

how are u cleaning your filter?

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Permalink Reply by scott farmer on November 16, 2011 at 2:53pm

My external filter I clean out every 3 months and replace the fine pad every 6 months. My internal sponges I rinse out in tank water every other week.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bingamon on November 16, 2011 at 4:16pm

I suddenly had the same problem too. I did a water change and a couple of hours after my fish are acting weird and I think I'm gonna loose two serpae tetras. Maybe three. And it's only really effecting them.. I'm confused.

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Permalink Reply by scott farmer on November 16, 2011 at 6:10pm

I'm putting down to shit fish from the store maybe they are stressed or diseased before I get them. Do u use any off these stress coats when u do a water change or when u add fish, haven't been using until a couple off weeks ago and I'm still losing stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bingamon on November 16, 2011 at 6:24pm

No I don't. I use spring water. So I have no need for it. My thing was it only killed my serpae tertras from what I say before I had to leave for work. All my green tiger barbs are alive my octocinclus Siamese algae eaters gold and orang platties, Cory's what shrimp I have left as well as all the three month old babie fish are all alive and kicking. One thing I noticed are the fish that died had signs of at one te being picked on and having battle scars. So idk if it's what I did. An infection or if what I did cause the infection to kill them. But I don't think it's the water quality or the swing of ph cause I have more sensitive fish that should have died first.

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Permalink Reply by scott farmer on November 16, 2011 at 6:47pm

Sounds the Same as me I have 5 glass fish which r all ok, I was told that they r very sensitive to diseases. So I would imagine that they would go first If I had a problem but it seemed to take out all my tetras. :-((

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