Quick help needing - Fish dying as I type!

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westwind77

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Ok, my stupid fault, I droped the salt content of the water too fast last night. I did a water change on the small tank, tested with the refractometer but was distracted and read it improperly (Stupid, stupid me
) Anyway, woke up this morning and did no see fish swimming around. They are all on the bottom or hidding, breathing fast, one is leaning over a bit. I quickly made up a batch of water to bring the content back up a little, not as high as it was but up some. What else can I do, will they die? Any quick suggestions would help! Thanks!
 
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I also changed the canister filter last night, new pads etc, but that should not matter, although they were pretty 'disgusting' the water test all came back fine. One random question, I took the media balls out of the canister and placed them on a sheet of tin foil, changed the pads, then slid the media ball back in. Could the tin foil being in contact with the media balls been a bad thing? Not sure if tin foil and salt water is a bad thing
 
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westwind77

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Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/2918406
What are the Sg readings? Making too many changes is a bad thing.
It was 1.029 (was using a swing arm, hense why it was off so bad)
Want to say it was dropped to around 1.022
Currently 1.025 after raising it a little bit.
I also think I got a bad refractometer, seems when I get close to the calibration point it jumps around when adjusting it. I used distilled water to calibrate, then I can test it again a few hours later and it will need to be readjusted again. Almost like something is not tight inside. I think it is getting exchanged.
 
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My intake pipe strainer was cracked, I used a little 'super-glue' to repair it, let it sit about an hour, then reattached also. Could the glue be giving off something bad? I made sure it was 100% dry before returning to the water.
Anyone out there?
 
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jpa0741

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Originally Posted by westwind77
http:///forum/post/2918443
It was 1.029 (was using a swing arm, hense why it was off so bad)
Want to say it was dropped to around 1.022
Currently 1.025 after raising it a little bit.
I also think I got a bad refractometer, seems when I get close to the calibration point it jumps around when adjusting it. I used distilled water to calibrate, then I can test it again a few hours later and it will need to be readjusted again. Almost like something is not tight inside. I think it is getting exchanged.
Couple things here concern me. So are you saying you dropped it from 1.029 to 1.022 when you did you water change? Being at 1.022 should not bother any fish but the sudden drop might have. Although fish can withstand a sudden drop much easier then a sudden raise. So they might be more stressed from the quick raise back to 1.025. Also refractometer need to be calibrated with a calibration solution and not distilled water. It can still be off a lot when using distilled. Not saying for sure that it is. I don't know if I can give you a link to another forum that talks about this, but you might be able to search for it.
 
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