vijaym85
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So i am getting ready to do a water change tonight. I turned off all the power to my tank as I dont like leavng the power on when I am messing with the water. So far normal. I end up getting caught up with some other stuff and dont get to go back to my tank for like 5 hours. Mind you the power has been off all this time except for 2 power heads which I left on. That means my skimmer, my fuge,my ozone, my chem filter, my mechanical filter, my sand filter, are all off. No filtration is occuring. I come back with the replacement buckets in hand and what do I see...
My French angel is lying upside down with his head on the sand and his belly up in the sky. My imperator is lying on his side. Both of them were breathing heavily, especially the imperator, I immediately return power to the tank and dump in the new water I made. The water level was low so I had to toss it quick to get the overflow going. I poked the two fish and the french got up and the impertor a soon while after.
Thankfully both fish seem ok as of right now, but what a lesson I learned the hard hard way. I belive the fish were starved for oxygen and that is why they were struggling for air, as both these animals were fine all day and eat and swan perfectly normal. Their repiration seemed to be highly labored. strangely my other fish seemed ok. With the filtration back online all the fish look happy and are swiming around freely. I thoink the oxygen level depleted quickly because I have a large number of fish and crearly these two must be the most unhelathy as they were the only ones to not handle the stress.
If anyone actually gets through reading this than I hope if you did not already know to learn from my mistake. In am not 100% sure it was oxygen related but any of your thoughts would be appreciated. Again I hope anyone who did not already know this be watchful of your oxygen content. And again the fish are doing fine now.
My French angel is lying upside down with his head on the sand and his belly up in the sky. My imperator is lying on his side. Both of them were breathing heavily, especially the imperator, I immediately return power to the tank and dump in the new water I made. The water level was low so I had to toss it quick to get the overflow going. I poked the two fish and the french got up and the impertor a soon while after.
Thankfully both fish seem ok as of right now, but what a lesson I learned the hard hard way. I belive the fish were starved for oxygen and that is why they were struggling for air, as both these animals were fine all day and eat and swan perfectly normal. Their repiration seemed to be highly labored. strangely my other fish seemed ok. With the filtration back online all the fish look happy and are swiming around freely. I thoink the oxygen level depleted quickly because I have a large number of fish and crearly these two must be the most unhelathy as they were the only ones to not handle the stress.
If anyone actually gets through reading this than I hope if you did not already know to learn from my mistake. In am not 100% sure it was oxygen related but any of your thoughts would be appreciated. Again I hope anyone who did not already know this be watchful of your oxygen content. And again the fish are doing fine now.
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