Make Give Up Hobby

[davidtcb1]

I agree, it's a costly filter, up there with full on RO units just no water loss. I'm sure you could find a cheaper substitute if you shopped it. That's just one I had actual experience with.

[bnoel210]

I may try something like that. Thanks for the idea.

[mruble]

Brian, you have a long ways to go $$$$$$ to catch up to me - I can kill a fish a thousand different ways! Still have those Frontosa if you want to give them a try.

[bnoel210]

Well im gonna take some time to decide what im going to do with the 125, but right now i still have my wc white calvus, f1 white calvus and wc gobies.

Thanks for the offer Mark. Ill def let you know

[glenoweth]

Sorry to hear this man! i lost about 200$ worth of tropheus a few weeks ago because A heater broke ,and i did not pay attention to the temp in the tank. Tropheus dont do well in low temps it causes them to have digestive problems, and die.


I have a few questions about what happened.

1.) you said when you got home they were dead. When was the last water change you did before finding them dead?
2.) For my cyprichromis tanks I do 1-2 water changes a week to keep them happy. Cyprichromis and Xenotilapia are very water sensitive ,and have to have clean very clean water. If i do only one water change a week I do a 45% ,or if i do 2 water changes its 20%.
Cyprichromis will breed most time right after a water change if they are or age.

[bnoel210]

It didnt happen while i was gone it happened during a water change adding new water to the tank. I do 2 water changes a week. Small one in middle of week and big one on weekends.

[charden]

Brian I may be thinning out my Malawi stock pretty soon if you are interested!

[glenoweth]

Jan 12, 2012 14:41:47 GMT -6 bnoel210 said:

It didnt happen while i was gone it happened during a water change adding new water to the tank. I do 2 water changes a week. Small one in middle of week and big one on weekends.

Odd, do you use extra dechlorinator? i use almost 3 time the amount req.

Really sux man sorry for your losses!

[bnoel210]

I usually triple also. I just put my 3 wc gobies, 1male wc white, 5 f1 white calvus, 1 juli malieri and 3 neolamp speciosus back into the 125 and they are looking good.

[glenoweth]

odd.

[bnoel210]

Whatever happened over night im geussing got filtered/good bacteria took care of.

[jtrotter77]

hang in there man. we all go through it. I had a fish kill a few years ago and lost over $1000 in fish I had just had shipped in a week earlier. My ammonia was off the charts and turned out I had a large dead fish under a rock that had caused it. I got out of the hobby soon after but then a while later there I was having to buy everything again