Was told to use this in my tank instead of carbon or fluval brown filter stuff (can't remember the name) to help with ridding tank of cyano along with siphoning and water change. Well, since I have changed to this, my 2 clowns got white stuff on them and died, my new clown goby is dying and my tail spot Benny died. Not sure of coincidence or something else. Perimeters are great. Nitrate and nitrites low, ammonia low, salinity 1.024, temp 76-78f, 20% water change once a week. Inverts are doing well. Firefish has a couple spots but eating and moving about. Any thoughts? I am devastated losing my clowns.
i would work on getting the nitrites and ammonia down to zero ( also i dont know what low is, numbers would help us help you), it wont take much ammonia to kill livestock. as for that product, ive never heard of it before.
How long has the tank been up? I cannot see the picture so I don't know what you used, but to have any ammonia in the tank is pretty alarming. It would be essentialy burning your fish and therefore stressing / killing them
i dont have any experience with the tetra strips, i dont know how helpful they are. i use api and red sea test kits, they can get a little costly but they give you the numerical value of what your measuring which helps. what kind of water are you using for your water changes? that could be the initial cause of the cyano.
it may be helpful to find out what is causing the cyano and try to fix that, rather than trying to treat the cyano, otherwise cyano may be a reoccurring issue.
IME,
I have only used for emergency purposes in the past.
The last time I used I did leave in for a couple weeks and corals did not look so well and be it an irony or not my semi pic. clown acquired ick @ same time, all other fish were fine
Unfortunately, I do not have any clue what had happened but I do suspect it was the sudden super stripping of the water column.
Well just an update, all fish perished. Inverts ok, just going to let tank run its course for 6-8 weeks and baby the corals. Not going to use any chemicals, no use killing everything off, lol. Thanks for all the help.
Anyone ever use this?
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