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judge
05-31-2011, 02:10 PM
Yesterday I lost almost all my babies to chlorine. I filled up 1/3of the wood tab without using water treatment. I breed around 20,000 babies and of that I chose around 20 and all those 20 are wiped out in a single day. I have very few still alive but not high hopes.
What are the odds of this?
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DigitalRyukin
05-31-2011, 02:28 PM
Very very sorry to hear this. My heartfelt condolences.
All that time spent on taking care of the fry went fruitless..its painful..
small_ranchu
05-31-2011, 02:54 PM
Sorry to hear about that. :(
That has to hurt and I am sorry for you lost fish and work.
bigbettadan
05-31-2011, 03:07 PM
I have had this happen. In 2002 I lost all my the best bettas I raised that winter... And that was in treated water. Something had changed in the way they treated my local water supply. So I ended up having to age the water 48 hours and pretreat with a canister filter with zeolite as the media.
Dan
opera
05-31-2011, 03:30 PM
sorry to hear this. It happened to my calico fry last year, the fish stayed in un-treated water for 10 mins. I lost 1/2 of the fish.
Lennard
05-31-2011, 04:27 PM
That's very bad!
I can imagine how you felt when it happened.
Sorry for your loss.
Lennard
Virginia ranchu
05-31-2011, 04:34 PM
Yup, I've done this too. Another lesson learned...don't keep them all in one place. Accidents happen, but hopefully not in two places at once.
Sorry for your loss.
small_ranchu
05-31-2011, 04:45 PM
It makes me want to build pvc Dechlorinator with active carbon.
http://goldfishkeepers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2429
Ranchufan16
05-31-2011, 05:19 PM
sorry to hear this, there were some pretty nice ones in there too. HOpefully a few of the ones that survived pull through for you.
Ichthius
05-31-2011, 05:53 PM
Sorry for your loss.
It's making it through these rough and humbling times that makes you a better fish keeper.
When ever I call myself "Dumbass" in my head or even occasionally even out loud I try to stop, take stock of the situation and find the key points in my systems that allowed the failure. Learn, morn, move forward. If this was easy anyone could do it and the stores would be full of great fish.
A few good tunes can help you morn, stand back up and move forward.
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I try to dose my sodium thio solution at the beginning of a water change but if you leave the water running to long that gas saturation an temperature can harm the fish too and will out run any method of dechlorination.
fastrails
05-31-2011, 06:13 PM
Happened to me too, lost all(15) of my 3months old SVRs 2 weeks ago.
I used to have a 35 gallon trash can chained to the wall in the utility room next to the fish room. Air keep the water turning. Used a pond pump in the can to move water through a line in the fish room used to fill the tanks.
Judge,
the samething happened to me last month. Did my typical water change down here in Miami, used my stress coat, novaqua, prime etc, and lost all but one fish due to the fact that I am told that water management in Miami pours in extra chlorine periodically to clean their pipes of any built up gunk. I was instructed by kind members of this board to purchase chlorine kit from a pool supply store, so sorry about your loss
Judge,
in addition to the chlorine test kit from a pool supply store one of the advanced members recommended a product called chloramX sold by www.reed-mariculture.com. Supposedly it is a much better product then products like prime, stress coat, etc . I am told it works much better especially when the city dumps large volumes of chlorine into the water system
Ichthius
05-31-2011, 10:38 PM
Judge,
in addition to the chlorine test kit from a pool supply store one of the advanced members recommended a product called chloramX sold by www.reed-mariculture.com. Supposedly it is a much better product then products like prime, stress coat, etc . I am told it works much better especially when the city dumps large volumes of chlorine into the water system
It's real strength is that it treats both ammonia, chlorine and chloramines.
If purchased from Reed it is by far the cheapest and for $35 you have a many year supply.
judge
06-01-2011, 03:52 AM
I lost most of them. I was thinking I wasn't going to breed anymore for this year. Thats why I bred many spawns and many babies and many different pairings from the beginning of the year. There were spawns that I did not even keep a single fish. There were days I spent 10 hours straight selecting fish.
Now I felt kind of depressed that I have to start over. I currently have one spawn and not sure if any will meet the look that I am looking for.
On top of all this one of my breeder male got SBD - sinking suddenly after the water change as well.
I am not sure if there were chemicals that is other than Chlorine. The baby fish that died swelled up with blood in their stomach...
Here is the video of the last spawn that I am working on... How many do you think there are? I would be very happy if I get 10 out of this whole batch.
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I apologize for the people who were waiting on my babies to grow out to get some of my fish. If I get many out of this spawn I will list some here. But it is going to be a long wait.
This is the video of some the babies about 4 hours before they died.
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mikroll
06-01-2011, 08:45 PM
sorry to hear that. I lost some like that too( have have done even dumber things too) and since then went to a very large active carbon pre filter at supply input. that has worked well and i do not have to do any kind of extra water treatments.
I counted your fry for you and see at leat 100 very nice ones so things are looking up for you already!! get back to work culling and feeding soe!
judge
06-03-2011, 12:56 AM
sorry to hear that. I lost some like that too( have have done even dumber things too) and since then went to a very large active carbon pre filter at supply input. that has worked well and i do not have to do any kind of extra water treatments.
I counted your fry for you and see at leat 100 very nice ones so things are looking up for you already!! get back to work culling and feeding soe!
Thanks Mike! Yep I will be doing some selection this weekend on that spawn.
I will have to consider building custom carbon filter myself.
I think I saw that discussion on here somewhere.
Hope what you see is true... I am considering to breed one more spawn and that will be the end of spawns for this year.
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