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cichlidaddicted

cichlidaddicted

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I'm in shock right now. After recieving a shipment of fish about a week ago I was beggining to wonder if there wasn't something wrong woth two of the fish. Both looked okay but weren't eating or moving around to much respiration was heavier than normal but no visual symptoms other than that. Asked lfs did some research came up with paraguard as a SAFE broad range solution to many ailments. Bottle says "particularity useful in receiving tanks or whenever new fish are introduced to a tank". I dosed as the bottle states and within three minites a fryeri and azureus are sitting on the bottom gasping. Remove fish and attempt to flush them in a bucket of fresh aquarium water. Soon lying on side followed by upside down followed by dead! Did a 80% water change the other fish seemed fine before wc and after. No clue why these two fish were effected so drastically and immediately. Not that it makes me feel any better but I have two of each of these species the others weren't effected at all. Should I contact seachem about this? I use their stuff almost exclusively, for everything. This was a huge let down

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Ading522

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wow..sucks to hear your fish passed.. maybe it was something else that affected them? maybe the shock of new aquarium water? some species are really sensitive, others are really hardy.. how many fish were in the same water parameters that resulted in the death of the two?
 
cichlidaddicted

cichlidaddicted

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About 40 fish! The two that died were removed from the tank before I did the huge wc. I did that so the rest wouldnt end up like the two that were removed. It makes no sense. Only thing I can come up with was that they were somehow subject to the paraguard before it was diluted into the water???? I emptied it directly over the koralia as to distribute it through out the tank. It was no where near the dosage they recomend for a dip so even that doesn't make sense really.

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Ading522

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must have been something.. did you use the water from the tank when you transfered them to a treating tank? or did the treatment tank have its own filtration? must be shock for the fish..they could have been beaten in the tank and when you removed them they got into shock with the new water?
 
cichlidaddicted

cichlidaddicted

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They were in there for almost a year. They were not the fish I was trying to treat just healthy by standers. Put em in water from my fry tank very close to identical perhaps a bit better. These were some hardy fish they have been through moves and several tear down rebuilds. Both were close to five inch had them since they were one inch

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neut

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No idea what would cause that reaction, but I'd get on the Seachem web site and go to the "Support" tab to contact them. They're pretty sharp and seem to be good about answering questions, etc. and may help you sort this out.
 
mchambers

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neut said:
No idea what would cause that reaction, but I'd get on the Seachem web site and go to the "Support" tab to contact them. They're pretty sharp and seem to be good about answering questions, etc. and may help you sort this out.
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I've always been impressed by the Seachem Support forum.
 
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