mikeyfishy
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Originally Posted by saltn00b
how did you correct the problem, what was it exactly?
I'm only hoping it is corrected at this point. My lone damsel is still doing great after 3 days so things are looking up, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for another week or two before I declare victory. IF it is fixed, the UV sterilizer fixed it. Up until I got the UV sterilizer, I could remove some of the ornamental stuff from the tank, clean off the algae, and it'd be covered in algae again within 3 days. It's been 3 days since I installed the UV sterilizer and none of the algae has returned. In fact, some small amounts on the glass that I didn't clean off are starting to disappear. At the same time, my current damsel is surviving where all the others died off in the same period.
My guess: the algae was drawing down the O2 levels in the tank stressing the fish or there was some type of invisible (to the eye) parasite that was killing them. Either of those may be killed by the UV sterilizer.
Mike
how did you correct the problem, what was it exactly?
I'm only hoping it is corrected at this point. My lone damsel is still doing great after 3 days so things are looking up, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for another week or two before I declare victory. IF it is fixed, the UV sterilizer fixed it. Up until I got the UV sterilizer, I could remove some of the ornamental stuff from the tank, clean off the algae, and it'd be covered in algae again within 3 days. It's been 3 days since I installed the UV sterilizer and none of the algae has returned. In fact, some small amounts on the glass that I didn't clean off are starting to disappear. At the same time, my current damsel is surviving where all the others died off in the same period.
My guess: the algae was drawing down the O2 levels in the tank stressing the fish or there was some type of invisible (to the eye) parasite that was killing them. Either of those may be killed by the UV sterilizer.
Mike
