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I changed both my tanks the other day. But I forgot to plug in EVERYTHING in my DPs tank! That's right- filter AND HEATER! So my ammonia is 1.0 and the temp is 72!!!! BLAH! He seems fine, but I'm doing a HUGE water change and tomorrow going to go get some used filter media from the lfs. UGH! So mad at myself! What's so hard about plugging things in:?!

Post got eaten! Grr

So I did a huge w/c on Squirt's tank just now and added some Melafix. Poor Squirt- he was breathing really quickly.

I killed a $180 frogfish & a really cool tasseled filefish by doing the same thing.

If I had to do it, at least its not my 30 gallon. Six times more work!

Just did another w/c but not quite as big. My ammonia was STILL .25!

I went to the lfs and got a pice of used filter sponge and voila! Ammonia is zero.

Pufferpunk wrote:I killed a $180 frogfish & a really cool tasseled filefish by doing the same thing.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of frogfish was it? I really love those fish.

mrgreen wrote:I went to the lfs and got a pice of used filter sponge and voila! Ammonia is zero.

If you don't trust the store 100% (heck, even if you do), you'd better deworm.

I'm really glad that you got it fixed! Poor Squirt!

I did this before with my other tank. Same store. They treat the whole tank- divided- with every addition and/or every so often. I dont' know the details. Squirt ONLY eats live blood worms so I don't know how I'd get him to eat those pellets.

You can soak his worms in a concentrated solution of the water and powder. (We are talking about Jungle, right?)

Nice to hear about a store like that!

Yes, Jungle.

JUST finished doing a w/c for my big tank.

There was a lot of stuff in the water tonight. I think it was fish poop! But either I didn't vaccuum enough last time, or they poop a LOT in two days!

I added vitamins to his tank and now its all cloudy! Not filtering out.