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4 of my discus dead
I am still shocked and upset. I have had my 4 discus in my 54 gallon planted tank for over 2 years. Today i did a waterchange, and forgot to plug the filter back in until later that night when i found all of my discus dead. Is it because of the filter being off that they died? I also had one other fish in the tank that is not a discus but it survived. I want to know why my discus suddenly died.
Thanks guys
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Did you check your water parameters? Give us the works, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, temp.. etc
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temp is 78-80
ammonia was .50 (Usually is at 0)
nirtite 0
Nitrate 0
ph 6.4
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i dont think the filter not being plugged in for a few hours would kill them that quick especially right after a water change.did you forget something else like to add dechlor?
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I actually never add dechlor ( maybe thats the problem) and will start too now. I find it weird that they would all die at the same time and theyve been fine for 2= years. This is just way too weird.
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sounds enviromental to me if they all just dropped dead after a wc, id be guessing chlorinr and ammonia in your tap water.
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Maybe your right, but theyve been fine with this water for their entire lives. I am planning on getting new discus to repopulate the tank but i am scared they will die now.
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Invest in some prime, or ammo-lock. Your not suppose to have any ammonia in your tank. So the ammonia itself could of been the cause. Sorry to hear about your loss. live and learn man.
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get some prime or something similar and you should be fine it sounds like you have ammonia and chlorine im sure if your not on a well like was said in a 2 year old planted tank you should not show ammonia so it probably came from the tap
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yes, it must have been the water. Because i rechecked the ammonia today and its at
0. Thanks guys for everything. This may be a dumb question but what is prime? Is that just a dechlorinator that they would sell at a pet store. Thanks everybody