Mystery crash

Gunther wrote:

Gunther, who's off to visit the dentist now.

[IANAD]
If you're visiting a dentist at 10:30ish at night, may I recommend a
clove oil soaked piece of cotton ball on whatever tooth part is causing
pain. (As a fishkeeper you just might have clove oil (eugenol) in
stock)

-D
--
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving
that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the
proof." -Galbraith's Law

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says...
Gunther wrote:

Gunther, who's off to visit the dentist now.

[IANAD]
If you're visiting a dentist at 10:30ish at night, may I recommend a
clove oil soaked piece of cotton ball on whatever tooth part is causing
pain. (As a fishkeeper you just might have clove oil (eugenol) in
stock)


:-)
The timestamp was accurate, but that msg spent about 10 hours in
queued in my outbasket. I pushed the "send" button at around
noon-thirty, then shut down my system without thinking. The next
time I fired up the newsreader, it got sent.
G

Gunther wrote:

- as of about 3 weeks ago, my water district switched to chloramine;
I was aware of this and switched from Novaqua to Amquel, at least
that was the plan.

Um... I think you're supposed to use both together... (At least I always
have).

The high nitrates makes me wonder about gunk in the gravel/substrate or
trapped in the filter media. IIRC you are a sand sorta guy, right?

-D
--
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving
that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the
proof." -Galbraith's Law

In article ,
says...
Gunther wrote:

- as of about 3 weeks ago, my water district switched to chloramine;
I was aware of this and switched from Novaqua to Amquel, at least
that was the plan.

Um... I think you're supposed to use both together... (At least I always
have).

I do as well, but I've always used Amquel as an afterthought:
a couple of teaspoons of novaqua as the main dechlor + 1 of
amquel as insurance. As of Feb 1st I reversed the roles:
2 tsp amquel for dechlor + 1 of novaqua for it's slime effect.


The high nitrates makes me wonder about gunk in the gravel/substrate or
trapped in the filter media. IIRC you are a sand sorta guy, right?

Yes, I am a sand sorta guy, and this tank does have sand.
In this particular tank it's a fairly coarse black sand that's
easy to spot when it's where it oughtn't be. I'm pretty careful
about keeping this particular tank's filters clean also, because
it's one of those #%$&! Eclipse things that I think is poorly
designed. In fact, 6 days prior to the calamity I had cleaned
the filter pretty well, and had seen no evidence of overflow
or clogging.

As for gunk in the substrate.... I suppose it's possible, tho
I'm pretty strict about vacuuuuuming it during PWCs. It's not
deep enough to escape processing.... I'll cogitate on this
awhile.

As of this AM, it would appear that I'm not out of the woods
yet. The real jewel of this tank, a beautiful well-decorated
chubby-cheeked calico Oranda is now acting decidedly stressed,
tho not like the white one, who has always been weak and runty.

Gunther


-D

yup... like dumping a load of food in the tank. was there a male in the tank too?
Ingrid

Gunther wrote:
- The white Oranda had just recently laid a monster load of eggs over
a 24 hour period; all but a half dozen well hidden ones were
then consumed. She went punkish about 48 hours after the egg were
laid. Did this extra "food" contribute more waste than the system
could handle?


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says...
yup... like dumping a load of food in the tank. was there a male in the tank too?

Yup, and he did his duty, too.
Damn.....once again, my fish suffer because of my ignorance.
(hangs head in shame...)

Gunther


Ingrid

Gunther wrote:
- The white Oranda had just recently laid a monster load of eggs over
a 24 hour period; all but a half dozen well hidden ones were
then consumed. She went punkish about 48 hours after the egg were
laid. Did this extra "food" contribute more waste than the system
could handle?


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.

Gunther, so sorry to hear about your loss. I hope the other fish perks up.

--
Laurie, Dark Phoenix

Here I am! Now, what were your other two wishes?

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Gunther, so sorry to hear about your loss. I hope the other fish perks up.

Thanks for the good wishes, but despite my efforts,
I've got an empty tank now. :-/
Gunther

Gunther wrote:

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says...
Gunther, so sorry to hear about your loss. I hope the other fish
perks up.

Thanks for the good wishes, but despite my efforts,
I've got an empty tank now. :-/

owwie!

(removes hat and bows head...)

-D
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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright