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Water supply in my place is usuallly OK, But for some reason not this AM !!! I am a moron. Tank water was aged/old and healthy. Topped up (about 25%) with tap-water this AM. Tank is just shy of 100 gal when full, good natural light. Never had any sort of drama before.

Bad-water reactions incl. general stressed looks and hovering at surface and hard/fast breathing in C loaches (one quite bad), gobies and dwarf rainbows. Cichlids getting better or fine, as is plecostimus and prawns.
I've put in about 2L of activated charcoal and peat in old socks weighed down with diver's lead... Angel looks better/fine now (1.5hr later), as does fem-beta. Loaches and gobies and rainbows still uncomfortable/unwell.
I only assume it's chorine. Could be other forms of water shock (not temp)

No access to water conditioner/pet-shop until tomorrow (when good or bad it will be too late). Is there anything else suggested for mean-time?
No access to old/aged/different water either.
I'm out of charcoal but could get more.
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Airstones/aeration helps alot if it is chlorine. Chloramines is a different story.

Get some charcoal in there and aerate until you can add dechlorinator.

Pump air into it as much as you can, filtration outlet above the water, in short, move thewater as much as you can and bring the temperature up a bit. chloride is a gas that will leave the water if driven out this way.
As soon as possible put water conditioner in the tank because the gills might be hurt and disintegrate.
Hope I could help

Thanks all for help.
Had a 2L culture for cyclops (and other skunky-bugs) in a bottle in the sun and put 50/50 mix of that and tank water in a goldfish bowl and put little worst-off CL in that with weedy-plant cuttings. She/it seems to have stabilized. Seemed just in time. Fingers crossed. Main tank still has 2 socks full of peat/charcoal and i cleaned filters for max flow. I wear a size 12, so plenty of sock.
Everybody still gasping a bit. Figure it will take a few days/week for gills to heal. I'll throw in a smidgen (just a smidgen) of sea-salt to keep everything healing (any further suggestions?). What a happy holliday treat for my little aquatic crew... i feel a jackass.
Merry Christmas/whatever you celebrate to all.
Andrew

ps; and they were loving the fat beetle grubs from the compost. They'd just figured out how to pop them last night after two days of trying.

ps; Mark,
I've been wondering, is that a Cadboroughsaur as your icon? I grew up in the Okanagan and try to keep up with the lore.
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