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Dead fish mystery Wednesday 21 September 2022
SARA HOLLYMAN The mystery of how tap water in the Berryfields subdivision came to show a nitrate reading labelled “impossible” by council staff, is no closer to being solved.
Berryfields resident Sheena Blackmore was left devastated after she lost almost her entire tank full of tropical fish following a routine water change last month, and she says she was not the only one who had fish affected.
Sheena says she is meticulous when it comes for caring for her nearly 1000L tank and does a 25 per cent water change every Sunday. “Just after the floods I did a water change, my normal cycle. The
tank will normally go cloudy for around 24-48 hours,” she says. Sheena and her partner were heading away for a few days on Wednesday, and that morning her partner woke her saying, “babe your tank is not looking
good, your parrotfish are on the bottom of the tank.” Sheena says her tank was still cloudy, which was unusual, and one of her parrotfish, which she
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