cranberry
Active Member
I came home yesterday morning from work and found my anthias and my pipefish laying on the bottom of my tank gilling really hard and acting lethargic. I noticed the flow of the tank seemed to be really down and the skimmer was off (step-daughter turned it off because it was making noise) so I thought my 02 was probably down. Turned on the skimmer, changed some water leaving the level low to create a lot of splash, threw on the 8-way air pump, made a face thinking about the pH jump, changed the chemi-pure and threw in some carbon. Added some amquel just in case.....
After that all tests were negative, of course. Tried to convince myself it was just an O2 problem.
They were their normal selves just 8 hours earlier.
So I sat and I stared and I thought. Then I noticed all the astraea snails were on the sand. Some dead, others mildly reactive. I bought these 3 years ago smaller than dimes and grew them really nice and purdy (y'all know I love my critters). I never lost any of them since I bought the bakers dozen. Very sad. Then I noticed..... there were no bristleworms. Dead and dying everywhere and there were no BWs. And some of those in that tank were those big ole psychadelic ones.
My heart dropped and I got the fish out of the tank and removed the clam. Interesting enough the clam looked fine but that may be the benefit of being able to close up tighter than a drum....
So where does the poison come in?
I have a problem with ants. Our whole neighbourhood is a crazy ant hill right now. I tried every "safe" way to get rid of them.... i had to resort to poison bait and it's been in the back of my mind ever since I read "this pesticide is extremely toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates." But if I touched it that day I wouldn't touch the tanks and would shower that night and the next morning before touching anything with the tanks. The thing I was afraid of was the newly poisoned ants finding a way into the tanks. But I never saw a line to the tanks recently.
Then it dawned on me. I had found a line of ants going into one of the RO/DI carboys. So I screwed on the lid and set it aside..... and I meant to tell my husband. I run in the room.... the water had been used.
I called my husband. Yup he topped it off before going to bed.
My 4 year old pipefish is dead... he died pretty quick and my 7 year old anthias is in hard shape. Let's hope meth helps.
After that all tests were negative, of course. Tried to convince myself it was just an O2 problem.
They were their normal selves just 8 hours earlier.
So I sat and I stared and I thought. Then I noticed all the astraea snails were on the sand. Some dead, others mildly reactive. I bought these 3 years ago smaller than dimes and grew them really nice and purdy (y'all know I love my critters). I never lost any of them since I bought the bakers dozen. Very sad. Then I noticed..... there were no bristleworms. Dead and dying everywhere and there were no BWs. And some of those in that tank were those big ole psychadelic ones.
My heart dropped and I got the fish out of the tank and removed the clam. Interesting enough the clam looked fine but that may be the benefit of being able to close up tighter than a drum....
So where does the poison come in?
I have a problem with ants. Our whole neighbourhood is a crazy ant hill right now. I tried every "safe" way to get rid of them.... i had to resort to poison bait and it's been in the back of my mind ever since I read "this pesticide is extremely toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates." But if I touched it that day I wouldn't touch the tanks and would shower that night and the next morning before touching anything with the tanks. The thing I was afraid of was the newly poisoned ants finding a way into the tanks. But I never saw a line to the tanks recently.
Then it dawned on me. I had found a line of ants going into one of the RO/DI carboys. So I screwed on the lid and set it aside..... and I meant to tell my husband. I run in the room.... the water had been used.
I called my husband. Yup he topped it off before going to bed.
My 4 year old pipefish is dead... he died pretty quick and my 7 year old anthias is in hard shape. Let's hope meth helps.
