Help! Tank die-off.

On 3 Feb 2005 11:21:34 -0800, Jim wrote:

btw, what is the ph of the tap water before going into the t?ank?

6.4 to 6.8


Is it possible you overlooked some dead snails when this whole thing
started? A
couple of decaying snails would certainly start killing off other things in
the tank.

The same would apply to the dead fish you found, but not to the same
extent.


Aidan Grey

Is it possible you overlooked some dead snails when this whole thing
started? A
couple of decaying snails would certainly start killing off other
things in
the tank.

Absolutely. As I mentioned, I squished some "floaters", getting a bit
of a stink. That's kind of what I was wondering - if the snail die-off
could start the fish die-off. If that's the case, I doubtless
contributed by the squishing (but then, what started the snail
die-off?)

Thx! - J.

Jim wrote:
Is it possible you overlooked some dead snails when this whole thing

started? A
couple of decaying snails would certainly start killing off other
things in
the tank.

Absolutely. As I mentioned, I squished some "floaters", getting a bit
of a stink. That's kind of what I was wondering - if the snail die-off
could start the fish die-off. If that's the case, I doubtless
contributed by the squishing (but then, what started the snail
die-off?)

Thx! - J.

Oh man... if there's anything that I could have pulled out of my tank
that smells worse than a fermenting Apple Snail, I don't want to think
what it would smell like. :-)

"John Thomas" wrote in message
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Jim wrote:
Is it possible you overlooked some dead snails when this whole thing

started? A
couple of decaying snails would certainly start killing off other
things in
the tank.

Absolutely. As I mentioned, I squished some "floaters", getting a bit
of a stink. That's kind of what I was wondering - if the snail
die-off
could start the fish die-off. If that's the case, I doubtless
contributed by the squishing (but then, what started the snail
die-off?)

Thx! - J.

Oh man... if there's anything that I could have pulled out of my tank
that smells worse than a fermenting Apple Snail, I don't want to think
what it would smell like. :-)

After handling just about every commercially available fish plant or
invertebrate found in a fish dept (or even an entire pet shop), I can
vouch that there is nothing worse than dead Apple snails (imo). We would
get a fishbag of them (from Singapore). Imagine 80 Apple snails, 40 of
which died in transit. The smell is almost visible, and it sticks to
surfaces through the air. Washing your hands is not enough as it
generally takes a day to lose the odour completely. We got into the
routine where the Apple snail bags were opened in the shipping dept (with
the doors open) and given several 100% water changes before being allowed
back into the store. I'm remembering the smell just writing this.
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