Hey guys...just trying to help people from making the same mistake as I did. For the past couple of months now I have been using this Red Sea NO3 PO4 to help keep my nitrates low. Its a great product...however I overdosed it and had some major implications happen!
I dosed it slightly past the recommended amount...well maybe more than slightly...I woke up to my feather dusters inside there tubes, all SPS and LPS corals retracted, and most of all problems with the fish! The first to go was my Blue Assessor...it was running to the top of the tank looking like it was trying to get air, then about an hour later passed. The next was my rainfords goby, same deal...currently my scissortail dartfish is barely hanging on...but I think will make it, and my yellow clown goby looks to be okay. My tanaka pygmy wrasse may or may not be okay. I seen him earlier and he seemed to be okay...but those fish are very cryptic and he may have only been out in the open as a sign of dying.
The first thing I did was check all my parameters. Everything was great, even PH! The only thing I can think is that at some point during the night when I dosed it the oxygen dropped dramatically and then when the lights came on the fish had already been suffocating for quite some time and it was simply too late to help them. I have to say I'm very upset about this...I feel like Red Sea does not clearly state these ill effects on there directions. They do talk about it but anyone who uses red sea knows that they sort of word things as if your a marine biologist or chemist. Either way, I just wanted to make people aware. I woke up and the tank was very cloudy. I did a about a 40% water change so far because thats all the water I have made up and am making more RO/DI. I am hoping that I wake up tomorrow and the scissortail is okay and the other 2 fish are okay. I guess the only plus to this is all is that I found this early on in my reef hobby and not years down the road with fish I have had for longer. Either way its a tough pill to swallow.
I dosed it slightly past the recommended amount...well maybe more than slightly...I woke up to my feather dusters inside there tubes, all SPS and LPS corals retracted, and most of all problems with the fish! The first to go was my Blue Assessor...it was running to the top of the tank looking like it was trying to get air, then about an hour later passed. The next was my rainfords goby, same deal...currently my scissortail dartfish is barely hanging on...but I think will make it, and my yellow clown goby looks to be okay. My tanaka pygmy wrasse may or may not be okay. I seen him earlier and he seemed to be okay...but those fish are very cryptic and he may have only been out in the open as a sign of dying.
The first thing I did was check all my parameters. Everything was great, even PH! The only thing I can think is that at some point during the night when I dosed it the oxygen dropped dramatically and then when the lights came on the fish had already been suffocating for quite some time and it was simply too late to help them. I have to say I'm very upset about this...I feel like Red Sea does not clearly state these ill effects on there directions. They do talk about it but anyone who uses red sea knows that they sort of word things as if your a marine biologist or chemist. Either way, I just wanted to make people aware. I woke up and the tank was very cloudy. I did a about a 40% water change so far because thats all the water I have made up and am making more RO/DI. I am hoping that I wake up tomorrow and the scissortail is okay and the other 2 fish are okay. I guess the only plus to this is all is that I found this early on in my reef hobby and not years down the road with fish I have had for longer. Either way its a tough pill to swallow.
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