Thanks for the replies. The salt tip looks promising! I added some salt to the 6G after doing a 50% water change, and the female guppy that was almost dying is back to life!
We had our water back during the night "it's 8 am here now", and I think the power will be back to the usual schedule during the conflicts "that is 6 hours aday of power outage everyday divided into 2 times, the fish did okey with that schedule now that the heat is down".
The reservoire is almost sealed and used on a daily basis, I use it for everything in the house including PWCs for the fish tanks, and the main tap water is loaded with Chlorin.
So now that I have as much water as I want, I would appreciate a plan for what to do next, now that the nitrifying bacteria must be all dead.
I'm off to work now, and will be back in 6 hours and ready to do whatever is needed to give the fish the best water conditions that I can under these circumstances.
Note: I already did a 50% PWC to the 6G, and 25% PWC to the 20G community tank yesterday with the little water that I had left in the reservoire.
Ray, I would like to read your suggestions too. You helped me tremendously in the previous years to overcome the lack of fish equipments with alternative ideas.
Thanks to all,
Noura
--- In AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com, Charles Harrison <charles@...> wrote:
>
> Any surface movement to exchange the tank "surface" with the water
> column - the better the Oxygen in the water column.
>
> The larger tanks tend to stratify and need help to move the water
> around to get the surface air.
>
> Smaller tanks are in real trouble because of the quick build up of
> urine (Ammonia) and the numbers of fish per gallon can be a deadly
> problem.
>
> Baking Soda and salt help in small tanks to stabilize the pH prevent
> NitrITE build up. Salt in the water helps the fish's kidneys to
> maintain the correct osmotic pressure.
>
> Wash your sponge filters as soon as you are able to do so. The
> Bacteria are mostly dead but not gone. You can bring everything back
> to life.
>
> Been There and Done That!
>
> Charles Harrison,
> Chairman BOT
> American Killifish Association
>
>
>
> > We're having a huge outage, the electricity was off for 22 hours during
> > > the last 31 hours. NO WATER EITHER! I only have the roof reservoire's water
> >> and I haven't checked its level yet.
> >> All 4 tanks were okey up till last night "it's 3 pm here in Syria now",
> >> but today I found 2 dead fancy guppies in the 6G, and the third female
> >> guppy is suffering.
> >> The cichlid tank is doing great, considering the circumstances.
> >> The 20G. community tank looks fine, but I lost one molly fry.
> >> I moved the molly fry from the jar to the 20 G. I thought it's safer for
> >> them.
> >>
> >> Back to the 6G, I took some measurments:
> >> Nitrate 80 "It was due to a water change 2 days ago but the water is off"
> >> Nitrite 0
> >> Ammonia 0.25
> >>
> >> What do you recommend? I can sacrifice some water to save the fish. But
> >> really should do the minimum as I don't know how much water do I have left
> >> in the reservoire. Will try to check later when I get the keys.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> > > Noura
>
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