aquaworld75
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Well the other day I come home about 7pm and I smell something burning. I follow the smell and I noticed it was coming from my 20 gallon tank upstairs and the tank is couple inches low in the main part and the sump is full. But everything is working except the return pump. Rio 2100. GFCI did not trip, temp is down to 72 from 78, and float switch auto top off is working fine so I know it did not run dry.
My only fish-percula clown that I have had for 3.5 yrs-is fine. I put the heater in the main tank and put a HOB filter on top with no media or bio wheel. I then add some water from the sump back to the top so it has enough water to run and then leave. Everything looks fine.
RIO has 2 puncture looking spots on the area around the impeller casing. Did not notice any oil in the water but the pump smells really bad like it burned. I threw it outside.
Does anyone know what happened to the pump???
Also second part after couple of hours my clown is on the ground barely moving. The room smells really bad and the water stinks also. My mom takes the clown and moves him into my 75 downstairs, where he drops to the bottom like a submarine and lies there the rest of the night.
Maroon clown then starts to harrass my clown and I put an egg crate divider in the tank to give him some stress relief. He is just breathing hard at the bottom staying up right and swims around for 1 second and then goes back down
The 75 and 20 have almost identical water chemistry so I dont think the move stressed him too much. Nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia 0, ph 8.0, salinity 1.025. Both have been running for more than a year.
Did the burning of the pump do something to the water to intoxicate the fish??
He seems like he just got posioned or something....
Any help would be appreciated on the pump mystery or the clown intoxication..
Thanks in advance
My only fish-percula clown that I have had for 3.5 yrs-is fine. I put the heater in the main tank and put a HOB filter on top with no media or bio wheel. I then add some water from the sump back to the top so it has enough water to run and then leave. Everything looks fine.
RIO has 2 puncture looking spots on the area around the impeller casing. Did not notice any oil in the water but the pump smells really bad like it burned. I threw it outside.
Does anyone know what happened to the pump???
Also second part after couple of hours my clown is on the ground barely moving. The room smells really bad and the water stinks also. My mom takes the clown and moves him into my 75 downstairs, where he drops to the bottom like a submarine and lies there the rest of the night.
Maroon clown then starts to harrass my clown and I put an egg crate divider in the tank to give him some stress relief. He is just breathing hard at the bottom staying up right and swims around for 1 second and then goes back down
The 75 and 20 have almost identical water chemistry so I dont think the move stressed him too much. Nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia 0, ph 8.0, salinity 1.025. Both have been running for more than a year.
Did the burning of the pump do something to the water to intoxicate the fish??
He seems like he just got posioned or something....
Any help would be appreciated on the pump mystery or the clown intoxication..
Thanks in advance
