Sad news- Tang tank crash

[LooksLater]

I don't know if Roy mentioned it yet, but I guess I'm finally ready to talk about it, I have been so bummed...

We woke up one morning last week to most of the fish in our Tanganyikan tank dead. All of the Cyps except one juvie... And our female goby, and the one goby fry we left in there. *heart breaks*
The male goby made it, as well as two petricolas and all of the multifaciatus, including the two new batches of multie fry.

As for what happened, we still don't know for sure. Even after an immediate 60% W/C, the test kit showed some ammonia and nitrates at 80ppm or so...we had just done water changes on all the tanks in the house except Suki's the day before. And no issues in the other tanks, so it wasn't the water. No signs of aggression on the bodies, either.
We're guessing maybe a gas pocket from underneath the rock piles, then chain-reaction deaths, maybe...double sigh. Who knows.

I've never had such a huge wipeout before, it just kills me we lost so many, and so quick. And my female goby!! Right after we got them breeding... My poor babies. :(

Oh well, I know we'll get the tank back to a thriving community eventually, and at least everything else made it. Just hurts to lose them, we loved those fish.



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[moganman]

Sorry to hear. Anything in the filters?

[Geral]

Sorry for your loss , it always hurt to losse what u care and what you put so much time effort and love

[mnemenoi]

The filter was cleaned once the crash occurred, but everytyhing had been doing great until a routine water change. I'm perplexed. Once we cleaned everything, water changed a few times, and gave it a day or two everything was back to normal. Certainly the strangest and most sudden crater I have ever seen in my years of fishkeeping.

[suicune]

that's really sad :( I hope you'll make a turn around if you need help let me know.

[troy tucker]

Sorry to hear about this.

[SteveCGG]

Sorry to hear that...was the water cloudy....bacterial or ammonia bloom? had a similar experience long ago that was probably a pocket of gas like you surmised....after the initial shock and several water changes over a few days, the remaining fish (all small/juveniles) were ok.

[SunnyHouTX]

I feel your pain guys. Sorry to hear

[Ballinxalex]

Sorry to hear this :(

[wesleh]

Sorry to hear, hope everything works it self out.

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[LooksLater]

Thanks, everyone. I know it's something almost everyone goes through at one time or another... For understood reasons or not. $&#* happens. It just makes me especially sad that it had to be that tank, it was the one that Roy managed to pull me into the hobby with, really. Our first set up together... The gobies were one of the first fish we ever picked out together...Lol, maybe that's silly but aside from loving the fish, I guess I'm sentimental that way.

Sorry to hear that...was the water cloudy....bacterial or ammonia bloom? had a similar experience long ago that was probably a pocket of gas like you surmised....after the initial shock and several water changes over a few days, the remaining fish (all small/juveniles) were ok.

We've had some cloudy water issues on and off with that tank since set up, we were chalking it up to the super fine aragonite sand, something we've since agreed isn't worth the hassle! But nothing to indicate bacteria bloom that I can think of, and we'd recently had no sign of parameter problems to speak of in that tank. It was so strange. Everyone was fine, and the next morning everyone was dead.
It did seem a lot more cloudy after the crash, but I think that was mostly just from a tank full of dead fish overnight, and of course we made sure to REALLY get in there and stir the sand during the clean-up water changes.



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[KhmerStyle]

Sorry to hear about this guys. It is always a said day when losing fishes. Hope you get it stocked soon .

[fshfrk]

Sorry about your fish.

[Ogrodii]

aww that sucks not the tangs
sorry

[morpheus]

that is awful sorry to hear about it