- Location
- Staten Island ny
I woke up this morning at 5 am to go to work and saw that my tank light had started a storm cycle , if any of you have a.i. lights you might want to stop using this function .
whenever i get up throughout the night i tend to look into my tank to see if all is well, this morning when i went to my tank as this lightning show was going on i saw to my surprise !! my sawtooth tang floating sideways , my female clownfish facedown tail up in the gravel as a dead submarine would look and 1 of my chromis laying on its side inside a piece of live rock!!! angry and jumping i went and got my net after i turned the lights on to get sight of the dead ones i went and got my net to do the scoop when all of a sudden in this 5 minute time period my fish all began to swim again!! wtf!! is going on in here ! anyhow i now have reason to believe that the lightning effect caused a dazed or even shocking efrect to the systems of these fish!! and we know sress equals death when fish go haywire!.
after some long thinking on the train i realized that in nature fish will encounter rumbling and some lightning and the reality is that a great majority of the fish we buy are all tank raised and many if any have never encountered flashing lights or anything outside 4 glass walls!!
i meant well but i think it was a bad idea to use this feature , so if any other people have had this happen to them let me know, and remember this is a learning and informative thread so if your gonna post i told you so or what did you think would happen replies ! keep em to yourself .
whenever i get up throughout the night i tend to look into my tank to see if all is well, this morning when i went to my tank as this lightning show was going on i saw to my surprise !! my sawtooth tang floating sideways , my female clownfish facedown tail up in the gravel as a dead submarine would look and 1 of my chromis laying on its side inside a piece of live rock!!! angry and jumping i went and got my net after i turned the lights on to get sight of the dead ones i went and got my net to do the scoop when all of a sudden in this 5 minute time period my fish all began to swim again!! wtf!! is going on in here ! anyhow i now have reason to believe that the lightning effect caused a dazed or even shocking efrect to the systems of these fish!! and we know sress equals death when fish go haywire!.
after some long thinking on the train i realized that in nature fish will encounter rumbling and some lightning and the reality is that a great majority of the fish we buy are all tank raised and many if any have never encountered flashing lights or anything outside 4 glass walls!!
i meant well but i think it was a bad idea to use this feature , so if any other people have had this happen to them let me know, and remember this is a learning and informative thread so if your gonna post i told you so or what did you think would happen replies ! keep em to yourself .
