Angela thank you.
But that's the strange (& very frustrating) thing - those 2 corys are fine, & so are the corys & endlers in the 1st zeb tank.
I still can't explain what happened - I did nothing different to what I always do.
Everything must have been going really well just before whatever it was that went wrong (if that makes sense!) because both the corys (not the ones in the zeb tank) & the big zebs had just laid eggs - they don't do that in 'bad' conditions!
It could have been a parasite or if possible a miss-spray of a cleaner or air freshner that contaminated the water.
I'll share my pain with you Lucy...
My b/f and I went on vacation and my father was house sitting for us. He decided to "clean" my tanks as a favor. Keep in mind, my father is in his 70s (I think he's 73 or 74) and doesn't understand anything about tanks except they hold fish. In his mind, he reasoned that since the fish tanks are in the room closet to the laundry room - that it was okay to wash my filter padding because he said they were dirty and brown. Now by washing, he didn't just wash them in hot water. He washed them with bleach and detergent and put them back in my tanks. To top that off, he used the windex spray bottle to clean up the mineral deposits off my tanks. I came home DEVASTATED. All of my tanks! DEAD! And what could I do to my 73yr old father? Get angry at him because he thought he was doing the right thing for me? I lost two adult zebras plus a dozen juvenile zebs, two sexed golden nuggets, my entire shrimp tank: cherry shrimps, african filter shrimps, amano shrimps, bumble bees. Nothing survived. Oh, and my dad doesn't understand why I was so upset because he really did work hard on my tanks - they were clean - no more mineral deposit creep, pure white filter pads, outside of the tank spic and span clean. When I pointed out my dead tanks, he was shocked. He didn't know he was killing my tanks with the cleaning solutions. He thought they would be okay.
It has taken me about 8 months to get back on my feet with my tanks. It was painful to clean out my tanks and dispose of the fish. We were only gone for four days so the fish barely passed away by the time we made it home.
I'm sorry for your lost =( I'm sorry you're zeb-less now =( I hope one day that you'll get more zebs to love and cherish in your home. It's painful and not a great experience to go through. *big hug*
