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Posted by pausto on April 15, 2006, 3:12 pm
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JeffinMS wrote:
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> Woke up and fed the fish, didnt notice anything unusual. Sat down to the
> news and coffee, looked over and every fish in the tank was at the top of
> the water, all at the same time. For a split second I thought it was
> humorous they were all eating at the same time until I noticed that they
> werent eating. They were doing something else, looked like they were trying
> to get out or something! The Plec, which is about 8 inches long and usualy
> does nothing was all over the tank. I ran over and looked and the pump was
> not working, double and triple checked everything and it was just burned up.
> Took me an hour to get to PetSmart to get a new one (An Aquaclear 150) and
> another 10 minutes to get it set up. I did a 50% water change, replaced the
> filters (Had to, the new 150's are different size from the old 150s) and am
> now waiting. I did lose one Blue tetra but the other fish seem to be back to
> normal with the exception of the Plec which is all over the tank. So, what
> should I expect. What could be wrong with the Plec? Was the water change
> (The water had turned brown in that hour and a half) the correct thing to do
> or should I have just changed the filter and pump?
>
> TIA
> Jeff
If you didn't already, do what ever you can to fit the filter
media from the old filter into the new filter. Test for ammonia
and nitrite, and change water as needed to keep the levels down.
Feed sparingly.
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> Woke up and fed the fish, didnt notice anything unusual. Sat down to the
> news and coffee, looked over and every fish in the tank was at the top of
> the water, all at the same time. For a split second I thought it was
> humorous they were all eating at the same time until I noticed that they
> werent eating. They were doing something else, looked like they were trying
> to get out or something! The Plec, which is about 8 inches long and usualy
> does nothing was all over the tank. I ran over and looked and the pump was
> not working, double and triple checked everything and it was just burned up.
> Took me an hour to get to PetSmart to get a new one (An Aquaclear 150) and
> another 10 minutes to get it set up. I did a 50% water change, replaced the
> filters (Had to, the new 150's are different size from the old 150s) and am
> now waiting. I did lose one Blue tetra but the other fish seem to be back to
> normal with the exception of the Plec which is all over the tank. So, what
> should I expect. What could be wrong with the Plec? Was the water change
> (The water had turned brown in that hour and a half) the correct thing to do
> or should I have just changed the filter and pump?
>
> TIA
> Jeff