REDSTEVEO
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My journal 'A Shady Glen' tells the story of the setup so I won't go into that. Needless to say I have started the usual battle with staghorn hair algae. Having read all there was to read about algae on this forum I went for the Flourish Excel treatment. I ordered it off the web and it came yesterday. So I drained 50% of the tank, put some of the liquid into a spray bottle (undiluted) and sprayed away.
Filled the tank back up added some more as per the recommended dosage and went to bed. Came down this morning and there were three dead cardinal tetras, two ember tetras and an Otto floating on the top and the rest of the fish weren't looking too happy either. So fished them out, did a third water change and went to work. Phone in work goes about 12:30, its the missus, "Er Steve some of your fish are dead and floating"
Convinced the boss that there was an emergency at home and rushed home to sort it. Five more Cardinal tetras dead and another two ember tetras. No one to blame except for myself really, in my impatience with the hair algae I think I overdosed the stuff and not only nuked the hair algae but some of my fish as well. Cardinals were massive as well, cost me £3.95 each from TGM. So £31.60 worth of cardinals in the bin I drained 50% of the water, refilled it and now I'll just have to wait and see. The only good news is that the hair algae has been well and truly nuked, trouble is so have some of my mosses, java ferns and Bolbitus.
Now I am dead wary about putting any more Excel in :?: because I am not sure what will happen to the fish.
Patience is a virtue. So if you are thinking about using this stuff, great it certainly seems to do the business, but learn from my mistake and take it easy.
Cheers,
Steve.
Filled the tank back up added some more as per the recommended dosage and went to bed. Came down this morning and there were three dead cardinal tetras, two ember tetras and an Otto floating on the top and the rest of the fish weren't looking too happy either. So fished them out, did a third water change and went to work. Phone in work goes about 12:30, its the missus, "Er Steve some of your fish are dead and floating"
Convinced the boss that there was an emergency at home and rushed home to sort it. Five more Cardinal tetras dead and another two ember tetras. No one to blame except for myself really, in my impatience with the hair algae I think I overdosed the stuff and not only nuked the hair algae but some of my fish as well. Cardinals were massive as well, cost me £3.95 each from TGM. So £31.60 worth of cardinals in the bin I drained 50% of the water, refilled it and now I'll just have to wait and see. The only good news is that the hair algae has been well and truly nuked, trouble is so have some of my mosses, java ferns and Bolbitus.
Now I am dead wary about putting any more Excel in :?: because I am not sure what will happen to the fish.
Patience is a virtue. So if you are thinking about using this stuff, great it certainly seems to do the business, but learn from my mistake and take it easy.
Cheers,
Steve.