HELP!!!!!

I'll give you a call in the morning. I live up in Syracuse, don't know if you still have anything left or not.

Thanks to everyone who responed, I have been able to place all of my live stock in a safe tank.

Now that that is done, does anyone have any ideas as to what could have caused this kind of a crash?

After I removed all the fish I started testing my water
SG 1.021
NH3/4 < .25 ppm
NO2 0
NO3 < 5 ppm

The PH is quite high above 8.7 (the highest the test I had would go).

I don't know if that would cause all fish except one to die all in one night and if so any ideas as to what could have suddenly made it go so high??

All the fish were swimming around and acting just fine the night before.

However about two weeks ago my 3 yr old nephue decided to help me with the tank and added in a whole bottle of Iodine, strontium, and some reef essentials with out my knowledge. When I got down their and looked at everything all the levels were the same as above except the PH was lower. I cant imagine that this would be healthy for the livestock, could this have cause the crash?

Thanks for the help.
Steve

Yep a whole bottler of each.

I have done some water changes but not enough I guess. I have a iodine test, but how do you test for the strontium and reef essentials??

But another question is, why would all of that stuff in the tank wait for two weeks then kill everything in one night? Everything died last friday but on thursday every body was happy and swimming around.

Thanks again

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but if water changes and carbon had started the day you knew of the nephews "help" you would have prevented the deaths. Even carbon by itself could have done the job!

Next time please call us as soon as something strange happens. We CAN help.

20% water changes for three or four days in a row would effectively dilute the additives and not overly stress the tank with new water all at once. (The water would have been welcomed by someone wanting those additives in their tank! )

Quote: "But another question is, why would all of that stuff in the tank wait for two weeks then kill everything in one night? Everything died last friday but on thursday every body was happy and swimming around."

Answers:

1)I kind of suspect that there was something beginning that you didn't notice.

2) sometimes other changes in the tank combine to produce an undesirable event

3)Please be aware in the future that these additives are chemicals! They are dangerous in large doses though the animals evidently did not absorb a lethal dose all at once. We do not know how long it would take for elevated levels of a chemical to become toxic and then to kill. Looks like you found out for all of us. Some chemicals are okay until the level reaches a point where the body system shuts down because it "just couldn't take it any more"

BTW - Your'e very blessed that the nephew didn't drink the chemicals!

- - All CHEMICALS SHOULD BE KEPT OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN - -

Edited by Mark Peterson

"multiples of sadness" as I am so famous for saying in moments like these!  I dont know what to tell you.  Still kinda new at this.  I gotta side with the others though...repeated massive water changes appear to be the only real cure.