FISH DYING AND BREATHING HEAVY

[apex82]

Originally Posted by apex82

I am sure you will come up with a reason how velvet also caused some of my soft corals to completely wither, turn grey and completely die the same night... Get a clue, something got in the water and all evidence points to the pumps.

Read something and process it before responding. The pumps brought the contamination which lead to stress which then lead to disease. Only an idiot would think a pump could bring in velvet and ich.

[daniella3d]

No sir. If you had marine velvet in your aquarium, it was only a matter of time before it exploded and kill all of your fish.

Read a bit on marine velvet before you post such thing. Marine velvet is a very serious desease and it is a very fast killer. No matter what you would have done, pump or no pump, this would have hapen all the same.

Unless you have chimical analysis to prove that the pumps you put in were contaminated by something, then it is only your own opinion. There are thousands of people buying these pumps and like me, putting them in their aquarium without even rinsing and yet no negative effet. It is not impossible but in your case, it is quite obvious what killed your fish and it was a deadly parasite brought about by you neglecting a proper quarantine and introducing this disease into your tank.

That's not what you want to hear but that is the obvious scenario in your case.

Originally Posted by apex82

Read something and process it before responding. The pumps brought the contamination which lead to stress which then lead to disease. Only an idiot would think a pump could bring in velvet and ich.

Originally Posted by apex82

Read something and process it before responding. The pumps brought the contamination which lead to stress which then lead to disease. Only an idiot would think a pump could bring in velvet and ich.

Marine velvet is a serious decease stress does not bring it on it has to be introduced in to the tank and can take a week or even 2 before it shows it ugly head, you can only get rid of it by removing the fish and letting the tank go fa-low for 3 months treat the fish with copper safe as copper is the only thing that will kill MV.... ICK on the other hand is present in most fish and can be kick started by stress. Easaly treated with Extreem garlic and selcon soaked flake food for a few days to a week. I think you should start reading more marine aquarium information before jumping in to a thread and making claims.

Bill

[reefcat]

well the whole ordeal is over. The fish that lived are back and feeding very well. Ive re-introduced the powerheads without flaw and everything seems to be back to normal. After all these opinions it obviously wasnt the powerheads that contaminated the water but I still cannot be sure to what it was. Anyways thanks for all the help everyone!!!

[CandyCane]

So posted this before reading it was all back to normal but if something like this happens for anyone else heres the steps I would take ===>


I've heard of added oxygen to a system causing fish loss before, its some kind of horrible reaction that oxygen brings out in heavily stocked tanks that were originally very low on oxygen. It doesn't just occur in saltwater tanks it also happens in fresh water ones.
Can you post all of your readings like ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates? Those could help us out a lot to fix the problem!
Keep doing 20% water changes every 2 days! or little 10% ones everyday for the next week or two!
None of this arguing over the problem will ever fix the problem guys

-Hook the protien skimmer up and don't turn it off. If you think its to loud I would sell it and buy a quiter one you can run all the time

-Email or call the power head company and tell them about the problems you've been having! They will never know their products might have killed your tank or others if people don't let them know!

-If you still have the boxs and recite or the powerheads return them for different ones. I recently baught the same brand and stuck it straight in my tanl as well so the chances must be 1 in a billion

-If your not comfortable with the powerheads add a huge air stone. Gasping fish almost always end up dieing they just can't handle that kind of stress and need tuns of oxygen to possible get them going again

-Do the water changes I suggested earlier for sure!

Tell us your nitrates, nitrites and ammonia levels, I think somethings really up with them.