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SNPiccolo5 · 02-03-2003, 03:55 AM

Sorry to hear your loss, I am surprised you were able to OD with yeast CO2! I was lucky too, since I got home at 3 pm and the CO2 was crazy! I would imagine if it was an hour later I would have lost all the fish.

I did the same thing to my 55 gallon but with pressurized CO2. Unbelievably all my rasboras survived, 1 DD angel died, and my one oto died. My pH was way too low, I had far too much CO2... I'll tell how it happened to me

I got home and the largest angel (still not full grown though) was lying down on the bottom of the tank, but just barely moving his gills. At first glance, anyone would say all the fish were dead. The pleco was on the bottom, so I immediatly got my little "net breader" out and put it in and popped the pleco in that so it was toward the top with more oxygen.

Most of the angels had lost their orientation, swimming upside down, falling to the bottom and lying down, swimming in corkscrew patters, etc... Luckily my friend had an air pump and air stones on his twenty gallon, and let me borrow them, before that all I had was my powerhead for airation which wasn't much since it was too much current for the angels.

I had to hold the angels in nets towards the top so they would get enough oxygen, and by night time one was still falling to the bottom after I let go of it. The large silver's condition had transformed from horrible (he was the one swimming cork screws...) to regular. I had to prop the black angel that kept falling inbetween some dwarf saggitaria so it would stay verticle, which is important for their orientation. I prayed it would be alive when I awoke, and it was!

These fish are now very important, and you can guess how careful I was when I hooked CO2 up again... Good luck with the recoveries, the one thing I learned was to do everything possible to help them and they might just come around.

-Tim

02-03-2003, 03:55 AM	#4 (permalink)
SNPiccolo5 Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0) Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 859	Sorry to hear your loss, I am surprised you were able to OD with yeast CO2! I was lucky too, since I got home at 3 pm and the CO2 was crazy! I would imagine if it was an hour later I would have lost all the fish. I did the same thing to my 55 gallon but with pressurized CO2. Unbelievably all my rasboras survived, 1 DD angel died, and my one oto died. My pH was way too low, I had far too much CO2... I'll tell how it happened to me I got home and the largest angel (still not full grown though) was lying down on the bottom of the tank, but just barely moving his gills. At first glance, anyone would say all the fish were dead. The pleco was on the bottom, so I immediatly got my little "net breader" out and put it in and popped the pleco in that so it was toward the top with more oxygen. Most of the angels had lost their orientation, swimming upside down, falling to the bottom and lying down, swimming in corkscrew patters, etc... Luckily my friend had an air pump and air stones on his twenty gallon, and let me borrow them, before that all I had was my powerhead for airation which wasn't much since it was too much current for the angels. I had to hold the angels in nets towards the top so they would get enough oxygen, and by night time one was still falling to the bottom after I let go of it. The large silver's condition had transformed from horrible (he was the one swimming cork screws...) to regular. I had to prop the black angel that kept falling inbetween some dwarf saggitaria so it would stay verticle, which is important for their orientation. I prayed it would be alive when I awoke, and it was! These fish are now very important, and you can guess how careful I was when I hooked CO2 up again... Good luck with the recoveries, the one thing I learned was to do everything possible to help them and they might just come around. -Tim __________________ Tank in transition! 55 gallons, hard water.