In The Shallows

[fr499y]

• Same food as always fed across all 3 tanks (now back to two)

• I'm the house chef but haven't boiled potatoes or veg in a long time (steamed, baked or fried!)

• No aerosols are used in the living room where the tanks are located, only small tea lights in salt lamps, away from the aquarium.

• I did wonder about the plants but I moved the big one out of the room and its the same thing after a few hours with the film appearing.

• No new substrates, plants, decore or fish and the bottle I use for water changes is always filled from the same tap.

• Water marks certainly seem worse in the past week or so, and checking on ST's website there have been a lot more work taking place in the villages surrounding ours.

Next step to contact ST themselves I think and see what they come up with.

[Martinspuddle]

Have you checked with your neighbours about their water?

[fr499y]

Good shout, I haven't but I'll try and catch them later.

[Martinspuddle]

I mentioned it because earlier this year we had a problem and although not all the neighbours or adjacent properties had noticed the issue with the tap water supply, the water company did sort the problem and we received a refund.

Also, have you tested your water, TDS etc to see if anything shows up?

[fr499y]

Not got a tds pen handy. I might try and borrow one from work and see.

[Gingerlove05]

Sorry to hear M
I’d be putting in a massive complaint, doesnt matter that the water isn’t for fishkeeping, it shouldn’t be killing livestock off like that. Although it would explain how our rivers are so screwed

[fr499y]

Yeah I think I’m going to. I’ll be closing the tank down at the weekend if I can’t find a solution for this problem in the meantime.

[Staffylover]

Really sorry to hear this, I've had a couple of tank die off incidents now and it's totally gutting, hope you can get this resolved with the water company, sorry for your fishy losses

[FishBubs]

@fr499y , this is only a thought and probably something you have checked already, but, is there anything such as debris caught in the filter tubes that is stuck and not getting flushed out?

[fr499y]

Nope, nothing at all. Pipes cleaned a week ago as well, and the pump stripped and cleaned.