Post by Newfishguy on May 1, 2006 8:46:49 GMT -5
Anybody ever have this problem? Whenever I use my brush to wipe clean the algae from the glass my fish just up and die. I thought cleaning the tank was supposed to keep the fish healthy, not kill them! I am not chasing them, or going really fast, but they die anyway.
The really weird thing is my neons and catfish never die. Neons have always been so delicate too. Instead my platies and tiger barbs (usually so hardy) are dying off. Here's what happens:
Day One: I clean the glass. The fish (except for the neons and cat fish) stop eating and start hanging out at the top or bottom of the tank.
Day Two: one of the fish starts hanging out away from all the others. Then it starts having trouble swimming right. Then it will go into a beserker swim of jerks/stops/and fits until it lands on the bottom and dies.
Day Three: as soon as fish one dies, another fish will start acting weird until it does the beserker swim of death. When this fish dies another will start to act weird until it dies, and so on until all the fish (except the neons and catfish) are dead.
This happens EVERY time I clean the tank. WHY!?!? This makes no sense. The ammonia level is close to 0, Nitrates at 10, Nitrites close to 0, PH is 5.9, water level is moderate hardness.
I also notice that this seems to happen only when my scrubber disturbs the rocks. It doesn't happen when I just clean the glass and avoid the rocks.
The really weird thing is my neons and catfish never die. Neons have always been so delicate too. Instead my platies and tiger barbs (usually so hardy) are dying off. Here's what happens:
Day One: I clean the glass. The fish (except for the neons and cat fish) stop eating and start hanging out at the top or bottom of the tank.
Day Two: one of the fish starts hanging out away from all the others. Then it starts having trouble swimming right. Then it will go into a beserker swim of jerks/stops/and fits until it lands on the bottom and dies.
Day Three: as soon as fish one dies, another fish will start acting weird until it does the beserker swim of death. When this fish dies another will start to act weird until it dies, and so on until all the fish (except the neons and catfish) are dead.
This happens EVERY time I clean the tank. WHY!?!? This makes no sense. The ammonia level is close to 0, Nitrates at 10, Nitrites close to 0, PH is 5.9, water level is moderate hardness.
I also notice that this seems to happen only when my scrubber disturbs the rocks. It doesn't happen when I just clean the glass and avoid the rocks.