check valve failed. fish barely alive

[edpaff jr]

That is really bad, but I am happy for you.  At least you caught it before they were all dead.

 

[arcab4]

came home from work. saw that my c02 was pumping like crazy into my tank (i think it was like 5 bubbles per second or faster) looked in my tank..all my amano shrimps were dead. i had 7 ottocats in there..all upside down. so i thought the worst..fished out the shrimps..and when i was fishing out the ottocats, they started to swim (upside down, sideways). i quickly took them and put them in my 10gallon tank. I thought i saw that only 3 were barely alive..but upon closer inspection, i noticed that ALL of them were barely alive.

So now they're in my 10gallon tank. hopefully they'll pull through. what a bummer. time for a new regulator or checkvalve.

 

[SegaDojo]

sorry to hear that arcab.

you were pretty lucky to find out in time to rescue the otos.. Hope they will pull through.. IME, they are quite the sensitive fishes.

I hope you don't get an algae outbreak as well... the dead shrimp must have leeched lotsa phosphates in the water.