HELP! Fish Gasping for air

Tony

Alligator Snapping Turtle/Past Pres
Tony, The Ruby Reds are doing fine, lots of room in the 40.

Good stuff brotherman. Definitely good space for the little guys. Being the big guys from the growout tank, they should hit a nice growth spurt in their new digs. :)
 

Ophelia77

Members
Richard, we will just have to agree to disagree.
I have always thought as that as an "excuse" for something else going on.
When there is a tank that has substrate and filtration and even ornaments and plants you are talking about trillions of microscopic organisms that are feeding off of that tank. As a matter of fact beneficial bacteria also lives on the fish that we keep.
For all of these organisms to "crash", or die off, is impossible.
These organisms are deep down into the sand beds and filters. They are feeding and multiplying all of the time.
If you were to drop boiling water or even battery acid into the tank you will STILL have bacteria that is living in these sand beds.

Gotta say I'm with Bill on this one. simple cause/ effect - the bacteria bed crash would be the effect. and last November, scientists found evidence of fossilized bacteria on Mars... They're just everywhere.
 

bschuhart

Members
The problem has been resolved....it was the air freshner. Everything is OK now. Carbon and a water change and of coarse removing the air freshner
 
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