Help – Fish died after first fertilizers added

[coleop]

Hi,
I made all the recommandation and now the bloom seem to be stable...
The good news is that my last ancistrus feel good now and seem to be all right ! A though one if I can compare with the cardinals all dead in few hours !

For the fertilizer, I think I made a mistake but I don't know what is the consequences ...
I mixed the fertilizers with home water !! And not distilled one. So is there a problem ? My water KH is about 4, GH about 5.6 and chlorine for sure... For ammoniac, I do not tested it yet because I have an older one and for nitrates I think its null...

Thanks Biollante and others... I was really frustrated when all this happened... I'm learning great because of you !

 

[Tom Barr]

Well, I add 15 ppm of NO3 as KNO3, 5ppm of PO4 as KH2PO4, Fe as CMS+ DTPA and EHHDA at 1.2 ppm or so all 3x a week, plus about 4 tsp of GH booster after each water change on my 180 Gal tank:

I may not know what killed them, but I do know what did not.

 

[Biollante]

Bacterial Bloom, Suffocation


Hi,


I am with Tom, I am positive it was not the fertz or even the chlorine.


Not that I recommend chlorine, but in your case the chlorine may have been a positive.


Biollante

 

[coleop]

Hi,
Thanks Tom, Biollante and all...

Now all seem to be stable...
I add a half of fertz 2x a week and my ancistrus is going very well...
The bloom gone 5 days after I made the recommend !

So thanks and now the water is really clear, my plants are growing well !

I have just a little problem with algea but it seem to be stable...