jay
Member
Hi all. Bad news for me. Whilst performing a water change yesterday, filters off, hose straight from tap into the tank, dechlorinator poured in as the tank is filling up. Same as every week for the past 2 years of fish keeping. As it was filling up I noticed that one of my male checkerboard cichlids was at the water surface gasping for air. Finished the waterchange and kept an eye on him. Over the next few hours he was not moving very much, except when caught in the current and he was unable to move with his own steam. Knocking into decor. I bagged him up and set ip a quarantine tank. Acclimatised him and hoped for the best. He sat on the bottom of the tank until this morning when I saw he had died. Any ideas?? It seemed like the new water durin waterchange had affected him swim bladder or somethi g to that effect. Anyone had this happen before?