Hello fishy folks.
I need to pick your fishy brains for opinions. We've had a couple of water main breaks in a short period of time. One next door to me, and this morning the next block (typical subdivision block, not like "down the road a piece" out in the country). I need opinions of how long you all would wait before doing water changes after a main break. We have city well water if that makes a difference. I was in the middle of changing around pairs, fry, and juvenile angels when I needed to stop. By the time I was able to go back to the tanks it was late, so I quit for the night. I've got angels partitioned off because they would fight badly (1 out of 3 is a female fighting for one of the other males in the tank). I have one tank that I want to bleach, and restart for the vicious little brother of my big black male angel. Size makes no different with him when it comes to his big brother...he hates him and would kill him if put together. So I need to set his tank up, but am nervous about the water. I've lost 2 batches of fry last year (one batch was 2 or 3 months old too) because of bacteria that got in the tap water after a water main break close to our house. Hence my fear. Oh...both times the bacteria wasn't anything for humans to worry about (so I was told). I have an RO unit, but I can't use just that. I use it to soften my liquid rock water. My fish aren't used to super soft water. I could go buy 5 gallons of water to be cut with the same amount of RO water. I passed by the break around 4 pm today and it looked like they had been done for a while. I have no idea how long it's been fixed, but it's been since mid afternoon at least. This morning around 8am it was gushing down the road like the Colorado River. Well, maybe not that bad but it was a large break. Most water I've seen from one yet. I usually wait at least a day before doing a water change after a main break, or even when they flush the fire hydrants. This may be a huge over kill by waiting at day or two, or it may be not enough. So what's a good wait time?
