On saturday after work i got home around 6pm. I finished feeding my Tropheous colony, had dinner then went down stairs to do some waterchanges on my other tanks. Came upstairs around 10pm and found all my Tropheous on the tank bottom:o Nothing was moving all of them were finding it hard to breath. The tank colour had turned a bit browny.Had to get them out of that tank quickly.So i put them all into a 120L container that has half water from the tank and half water from my tank downstairs. Had no clue what had gone wrong. This is how they all looked at 10:10pm

I was doing waterchanges every 10min on the 120L container. I tested the water and all the chemicals were off the chart :-? . The water changes went on for about an hour and they all came back to life one by one. I contacted one of my good mate and just checked with him if i was doing the correct thing. A picture of them at 10:55pm

I did a complete 100% waterchange on my 500l tank and put all those guys in. By now i had gone through about half of the biggest Aqua plus bottle$$$. By the time all of this was done it was about 2am. Tropheous do a funny thing when they want to let you know that they are hungry or want to go to sleep. When they want to go to sleep all of them will start going up and down one corner of the tank. So it was bed time for them. Every one of them had survived the whole ordeal.

I got up about 6Am and had a look at them. They all seemed to be doing well. Before the end of the day I had 3 females holding aswell :lol:

Main cause of this whole event...a broken Filter pump!!!!!

oh you lucky man...that was close wasnt it?

so dam close mate.. NON of the fish were swimming when i saw them

Whoa close call man. Good thing you went to look at the tank and caught it before it was too late!

Man that woulda so scarred the crap outta me man

Glad they are all ok and healthy rcon

Man that would of been scary. How long had the filter not been running for?

Frenchy

Thats scary! But good on you for being a hero!!! They live to fight another day (or many days ahead)!! Good that you didnt lose them, or it would have been sad

This is what I call dedication to the max Lucky for you

job well done mate i was getting scared for u just reading it.

all i can say is they're lucky to be ur fish.

Wow great to hear a survival story... if you'd been away even 10mins longer might've been a tragedy story

Man you where lucky. Great you saved them all. It always seems to happen to the most expensive ones.

I lost 40 large Tropheus.D white bands due to failed pump.

Only one survived. My male of 13 years

Mike

Congratulations on your persistence at their revival.

Can I suggest, as these are fairly valuable fish, that if you have the room to split them up?

I had Medaka once, 100's of them all in the one bath and the plug was pulled accidentally, lost the lot, and they were prolly the rarest fish in NZ as they are not allowed to be imported.

If I had of had one pair, we prolly would still have them in NZ.

Alan 104

That's an ouch story... was it a heated bath or are these cold water fish? Pity there wasn't some mesh over the plug hole. I lost a rummynose tetra once stupidly by tipping some water in a plastic fish bag down the drain, realised a few minutes too late that there was a rummy in it, such a waste aye.

They're cold water fish, hence the reason that they are not allowed to be imported.

Bath was outside behind the garage and a 11 year old visitor was looking at them without supervision.

Alan 104

Haha, nice documentation :lol:

Told you they'd be sweet 8)

thanx guys...i was sooo lucky..yup if i was just a bit late i could have lost them all.