I used this in my 29 gal. tank as directed and had my favorite fish get extremely sick and die. when I noticed he was not eating I took action, I did a 75% water change, with stress coat. He was an Oranda Goldfish and was so beautiful. His sides were matalic gold with black accents. He was so friendly. I'm just sick about it. Please don't use this product in your tank.
It doesn't deprive the tank of oxygen to kill the algae, it puts the algae hyperdrive and the algae consumes a lot of oxygen as it burns itself out. I just looked in at my bottle and it's got a boldy highlighted warning that you must ensure you have vigorous aeration to prevent low-oxygen in the tank. I've been using it for years, following the label, and have never injured a fish. Use of any chemical comes with risks and responsibilities. Not API's fault if an aquarists over-doses or doesn't follow instructions on aeration.
everything you are saying is 100% spot on i myself tried this product and about lost my whole tank 25 fish i didnt od them its bad at any amount they were all at the bottom thanks for the direction on saving the tank why is this still on the shelves shame on API. again thank u for making this video
Omg thank you. I dosed melafix and most of my fish like to stay on the right side of the tank but for some reason they were avoiding that side. It was kid of cute, they would swim back to the left but realized "nope go back go back". So I assumed it was the melfix but quickly did a water change. Then I came across your video and I'm so grateful that you confirmed it may have be the algea fix. Glad most of your fix are ok
I used LESS than the recommended amount, and it killed all of my fish. I am astounded now that I am doing some light research on the stuff, that it is even still on the market. I now have an empty 55 gallon aquarium and am angry.
Just had this happen a couple days ago in my guppy tank. I tend to dose lightly as well, but this product completely shocked my fish. Almost instantly, they rose to the surface of the water and floated all funny. I immediately did a 75% water change, followed by another 20% water change. All the adults have been slowly recovering but I lost quite a bit of fry. I'm relieved this didn't happen in one of my cichlid tanks.
I'm so sorry you had to experience this. It sounds like you acted quick and did what you could to save the fish. This product is awful and absolutely has no business being sold to the public for use on aquatic life. I have to agree with you, if this happened on one of your cichlid tanks you would have been sick to your stomach for sure 🥺🥺
I have used this product for years and never lost fish or plants. Folks need to understand a couple of things; An algaecide (kills algae) works like an herbicide, but it’s specific to algae, not herbaceous plants. As with anything meant to kill something specific, you MUST FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS!! If you have a heavy algae problem and kill it off, the water essentially becomes polluted with dead organisms and oxygen levels drop. It's why you follow directions. Water changes and air are important. Poly[oxyethylene (dimethyliminio) ethylene(dimethyliminio) ethylene dichloride SOUNDS really scary (active ingredient in the product). But so does Dihydrogen monoxide (also known as hydric acid) and has been responsible for injury, death, and property damage all over the world. (otherwise known as water). :) Again, I have been keeping aquariums continuously since the early 1970's, I have used this API product for years, and NEVER lost a fish or plant because it's use. Read the label. Follow the instructions. {{I have no relationship with the API company, nor any retailer that sells API products}} "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" Alfred Tennyson
I used less than 1ml in a 16 gallon tank. Within one hour 3 albino cats are laying listlessly on the substrate, one mountain minnow that is always at the top level was stuck or hiding under the substrate, 3 gouramis are ok, sucking from the top a bit more. Most of the bad reviews involve and accidental overdose, mine does not. Warning is real. I don’t know longterm outcome, this just happened tonight.
I’m brand new to the hobby and had a MAJOR algea bloom within the 1st week. Completely ALL my fault, I over fed my fish and over applied the tank chemicals. I watched this video and 4 or 5 others and started to completely avoid. However what I noticed was that people DIDNT read the instructions properly and lost fish. I do realize that’s not the case in all situations. For me, I followed the instructions to the letter. I noticed a major clearing within 2hrs. The next day, the difference was like night and day better. My fish are healthy and behavior seems normal. This product worked VERY WELL for me. I have juvenile M’Buna Cichlids
Thank you for this. I realized my error too late, did a water change, had one of my fish laying on the floor and tried to save her. They all lost color and none had appetites. The biggest of them was on the floor so it made sense with what you said about the size of the fish. It took 4 days, but just came home to find that one gone. The other 3 are thankfully acting normal now and finally having appetites. Im still tore up over the one I lost because I am blaming myself and am truly upset. I added a warning on Amazon where I purchased it. Hoping ppl take heed to our warnings.
I'm happy to hear you were able to act quickly to help reverse and improve the conditions in your tank, sadly this product is so hard on the fish and their internal systems that sometimes it's too late. It sounds like you made out ok with all things considered except for your one fish, I'm so sorry to hear about that, our fish are our pets, we care for them in the same way we do any pet or animal and clearly are upset with the loss. I made this video to bring awareness to this terrible product and others like it on the market. I do feel strongly they should be banned. I'm happy to hear you left a review for others on Amazon. I hope people read the reviews and heed the warnings. This stuff is no joke and is dangerous for aquatic life.
I used this product not knowing the dangers and it’s been weeks and my betta fish is still struggling and can barely swim to get food at the top. He spends all of his time at the bottom not moving. I’m so upset with myself for using this terrible product. I threw it away immediately and will never use any products again. I’ll be happy to see algae in my tank again. And I’m still hopeful my fish will recover. It’s been weeks but he’s still hanging on.
I bought this product blindly without conducting any research and, unfortunately, it resulted in the death of my entire shrimp colony, which consisted of around 50 shrimps. P.S I was using 30% less than the recommended dose, but still...
I love the stuff. I had algae bloom and hair algae that got outta control quickly. This stuff cleared my tank in less than an hour. I’ve never seen my water more crystal clear! The hair algae started dying by day 2 and I’m currently on 2nd dose of the “every 3 days” directions. So far, no signs of oxygen deprivation and everything seems stable. Hopefully it stays that way!
Thanks for the video.When I applied this product, I could realized that my fishes are struggling with this chemical and changed the water 50% immediately to save my fishes. Applied under dosage (50%from the recommendation).
I'm so happy to hear that your fish didn't suffer anymore dire consequences from using this product. like I have told others quick action has the best outcome for the survivability of your fish. I hope all is well with them and they continue to do well.
Thanks so much for your video,it was very helpful.We lost all our fish but now we understand why they were so slow and staying at bottom.We won' t be using the Algaefix again.
here's the thing, I totally recommend this product under very specific conditions, and that is: if you only have a couple of fish that you can transport into a separate container, THEN then use the dosage and leave it in the tank for an hour... then do a water change of about 50% then add your fish back
Have to agree with u I followed the instructions verbatim and now having most of my fish dying If this product have to capacity to kill the fish Then why have a product like this on the market
Unfortunately people aren't going to see this until it's too late. I'm on day 3 of recovery and my Platys are still struggling. I've seen some minor improvement after adding an additional bubbler. I'm hoping they start eating again soon like you mentioned. Sorry you had to go through this also. Sending love.
I used this product as recommended and 80% of my fish died. I was so careful 😢. I had to remove so much water!! Add new bacteria! Every thing is fine on the remaining fish!
Thank you for posting this video. I used this product because of algae problem, I’ve done a Manuel cleaning added new rocks replaced all plants and did about a 50% water change to scrub out the entire tank. I then got this product to help prevent from coming back. Immediately after watching this video I pushed my fan up to the top and created heavy waves to prevent suffocation. Fish seem ok my biggest fish is fine but it seems some of my smaller fish did have a negative reaction. All of this was from proper dosage if not slightly under. I will monitor and update thanks for the video.
Update after last night smaller fish were having negative reaction sitting at the bottom of the tank, PH was slightly low but back to normal today. Fishes are fine today. Use this product with caution.
this product really is misleading and it sounds like in your case even though you used it properly and even underdosed you still had a reaction in my opinion that should tell people everything you need to know about this product. I am so happy to hear that through all of your efforts your fish seem to be doing okay. can I ask how their appetite is that was one of the longer side effects from them bouncing back for me.
It makes sense you'd lose your largest fish; the largest fish in the ocean are cold water, huge oxygen intake fish...same as large body of freshwater/pond fish like Koi and most Monster Fish. I am surprised you got to 6" on your Green Texan at your regular temperature, it is unlikely to reach their in-captivity length of 12" max over 76 degrees or breed at their favorite 72 degrees; and should never kept over 78.. This variant isn't even an American cichlid, btw. I believe it's more for ponds...like where even if you plan placement of the pond you have to deal with "Acts of God" when it comes to weather and exposure, what have you. Indoors, not so much. There are only "Acts of You". Especially with plastic decor! Take the plastic stuff out and put it in a bucket to treat separately if you're gonna splash chemicals around? Wait, rinse, soak in Prime treated water for 10 min and chuck it back in. I do this with bleach and I've never had a casualty. This was your negligence. Read directions. Pre-Mix in separate container...even store it pre-mixed? Every single fish product that says "safe for fish" will kill your fish if mis-used. It's like saying you thought it said 20 Ibuprophen every 4 to 6 hours instead of 2 ibuprofen every 4 to 6 hours, then blasting Advil on RUclips when you kill your child. You are the caregiver of your fish. Now you are online trolling misinformation. If you wanted to share this with the public, you should have said exactly how much you didn't read the directions by sharing the amount you put in that killed fish in a 125 gallon tank. Tell people the consequences of carelessness and maybe reassure them with data....what if someone realized they only mis-dosed a tiny bit and want to know if they will prob be ok? Then you'd actually be contributing to the hobby. P.S. Live plants help tons for algae, there are plenty that cichlids will not eat and can't dig up if you secure them properly- or even not-tasty floating plants work wonders. Assuming you don't overdose food as well, believe it or not adding plants really is your only option for best algae control if you don't either completely eliminate the sunlight by relocating or cover it with something when being hit by sun..Algae usually is caused by too much to too little light, and picking hi-light needing plants when you needed low lighting plants and vice versa. Anyway good luck and please take some responsibility for yourself. This product has been around a lot longer than you have been a fish keeper. And I'm not even in to API, just saying. What did you have to gain by freaking people out and insisting they return their purchases? Hopefully it's something sensible like you work for Seachem or something.
unfortunately I watched this after I added 2 new fish to our tank as well as picked this up path the store and put it in my tank. I killed all of our fish!!!! My sons are not very happy with me...
This video is extremely misleading. I have used it for years with my freshwater fish and snails with zero negative side-effects. One dose usually does it. I always make sure to underdose some. Now with my snails I had to supplement their food for a few weeks to let some minor algea build up some. Tbh my snails mostly eat Snello now anyways, so I was not really worried about it. I do note all my tanks have HOB filters and sponge filters, so oxygen is always in the water. I need to note when an algea bloom crashes, there will be oxygen issues observed in the water. I would recommend to everyone to use an airstone or sponge filter when doing this treatment. API really needs to put this on their instructions. I guarantee hypoxia killed all these user's fish.
I'm so sorry this happened to you! I just had another scare with one of there products called "Melafix" used to treat diseases. Once dosed, even under dosed the fish started acting weird. Some research shows this product can also be lethal for fish. I immediately did a large water change and they ended up being fine.
Class action lawsuit? Lief,Cabrazer,Hymen,Berstien SAN FRANCISCO MAIN OFFICE #1 IN THE COUNTRY! SOMETIMES CORPORATIONS ONLY LISTEN TO JUDGES, LAWYERS, AND LAWSUITS!!!
I’m sorry that this happened but almost anything can hurt fish if overdosed. The fact that 13 of 15 fish survived an overdose tells me you likely wouldn’t have lost any if you had dosed correctly.
I have tried algea fix. It's very effective. It is normal for it to have some effect on fish, but it's not something serious and will not kill it. I have a tank with a bunch of guppies with friesand apple snails and all are well. Some did move above near the water line and some moved near the substrate but it's just like less than 5 mins. Just read, understand and follow the instructions. Happy Fishing.
Yea mine started flipping out and going crazy! Their breathing rate was super fast and I’ve never seen them act this way. Not gonna lie I freaked out a little lol…but it stabilized and/or they got used to it after about 30 min
Ok update: A day after my 3rd application (properly following directions) I found one of my Chinese Algae eaters dead and the other was dying and breathing super fast. When I came home from work the second one was dead. I’m aware the product takes a lot of the O2 out of the water but I turned my air pump at max to help…the other fish (glo tetras) have been untouched by the stuff…however it killed both my algae eaters
Just bought this crap. And opened it..... So I decided to get on RUclips for a review...... before I put in...... Thanks for head's up.....sry you had to put ur fish threw that with this product
So you over dosed the crap out of your tank then did big water changes and then cleaned all your filters at the same time as you did you water changes 🤔 aswell as doing your research after you dumped way more than was recommended....... i think i know what the problem is and it's not api it's YOU!. Anyone reading my comment do not listen to this guy i literally just used api algaefix for a massive algae bloom in my 220ltr community tank which has many different kinds of fish and it works like magic within 1 hour my tank had almost cleared all the way up with all my fish doing just fine. The product works very well as long as you have some sort of Common sense unlike old mate in this vid.
I used this in my 29 gal. tank as directed and had my favorite fish get extremely sick and die. when I noticed he was not eating I took action, I did a 75% water change, with stress coat. He was an Oranda Goldfish and was so beautiful. His sides were matalic gold with black accents. He was so friendly. I'm just sick about it. Please don't use this product in your tank.
It doesn't deprive the tank of oxygen to kill the algae, it puts the algae hyperdrive and the algae consumes a lot of oxygen as it burns itself out. I just looked in at my bottle and it's got a boldy highlighted warning that you must ensure you have vigorous aeration to prevent low-oxygen in the tank. I've been using it for years, following the label, and have never injured a fish. Use of any chemical comes with risks and responsibilities. Not API's fault if an aquarists over-doses or doesn't follow instructions on aeration.
everything you are saying is 100% spot on i myself tried this product and about lost my whole tank 25 fish i didnt od them its bad at any amount they were all at the bottom thanks for the direction on saving the tank why is this still on the shelves shame on API. again thank u for making this video
You overdosed the tank??How can you possibly fault the product?? It was not the products fault and entirely your fault. Take full resposibility.
Omg thank you. I dosed melafix and most of my fish like to stay on the right side of the tank but for some reason they were avoiding that side. It was kid of cute, they would swim back to the left but realized "nope go back go back". So I assumed it was the melfix but quickly did a water change. Then I came across your video and I'm so grateful that you confirmed it may have be the algea fix. Glad most of your fix are ok
I used LESS than the recommended amount, and it killed all of my fish. I am astounded now that I am doing some light research on the stuff, that it is even still on the market. I now have an empty 55 gallon aquarium and am angry.
Just had this happen a couple days ago in my guppy tank. I tend to dose lightly as well, but this product completely shocked my fish. Almost instantly, they rose to the surface of the water and floated all funny. I immediately did a 75% water change, followed by another 20% water change. All the adults have been slowly recovering but I lost quite a bit of fry. I'm relieved this didn't happen in one of my cichlid tanks.
The product reviews on Amazon are awful too. I wish I would've known sooner
I'm so sorry you had to experience this. It sounds like you acted quick and did what you could to save the fish. This product is awful and absolutely has no business being sold to the public for use on aquatic life. I have to agree with you, if this happened on one of your cichlid tanks you would have been sick to your stomach for sure 🥺🥺
I have used this product for years and never lost fish or plants. Folks need to understand a couple of things; An algaecide (kills algae) works like an herbicide, but it’s specific to algae, not herbaceous plants. As with anything meant to kill something specific, you MUST FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS!! If you have a heavy algae problem and kill it off, the water essentially becomes polluted with dead organisms and oxygen levels drop. It's why you follow directions. Water changes and air are important. Poly[oxyethylene (dimethyliminio) ethylene(dimethyliminio) ethylene dichloride SOUNDS really scary (active ingredient in the product). But so does Dihydrogen monoxide (also known as hydric acid) and has been responsible for injury, death, and property damage all over the world. (otherwise known as water). :) Again, I have been keeping aquariums continuously since the early 1970's, I have used this API product for years, and NEVER lost a fish or plant because it's use. Read the label. Follow the instructions. {{I have no relationship with the API company, nor any retailer that sells API products}} "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" Alfred Tennyson
I used less than 1ml in a 16 gallon tank. Within one hour 3 albino cats are laying listlessly on the substrate, one mountain minnow that is always at the top level was stuck or hiding under the substrate, 3 gouramis are ok, sucking from the top a bit more. Most of the bad reviews involve and accidental overdose, mine does not. Warning is real. I don’t know longterm outcome, this just happened tonight.
I’m brand new to the hobby and had a MAJOR algea bloom within the 1st week. Completely ALL my fault, I over fed my fish and over applied the tank chemicals.
I watched this video and 4 or 5 others and started to completely avoid. However what I noticed was that people DIDNT read the instructions properly and lost fish. I do realize that’s not the case in all situations.
For me, I followed the instructions to the letter. I noticed a major clearing within 2hrs. The next day, the difference was like night and day better. My fish are healthy and behavior seems normal.
This product worked VERY WELL for me. I have juvenile M’Buna Cichlids
Thank you for this. I realized my error too late, did a water change, had one of my fish laying on the floor and tried to save her. They all lost color and none had appetites. The biggest of them was on the floor so it made sense with what you said about the size of the fish. It took 4 days, but just came home to find that one gone. The other 3 are thankfully acting normal now and finally having appetites. Im still tore up over the one I lost because I am blaming myself and am truly upset. I added a warning on Amazon where I purchased it. Hoping ppl take heed to our warnings.
I'm happy to hear you were able to act quickly to help reverse and improve the conditions in your tank, sadly this product is so hard on the fish and their internal systems that sometimes it's too late. It sounds like you made out ok with all things considered except for your one fish, I'm so sorry to hear about that, our fish are our pets, we care for them in the same way we do any pet or animal and clearly are upset with the loss. I made this video to bring awareness to this terrible product and others like it on the market. I do feel strongly they should be banned. I'm happy to hear you left a review for others on Amazon. I hope people read the reviews and heed the warnings. This stuff is no joke and is dangerous for aquatic life.
Dear Sister... You should have used as instructed.. always does chemical 20% less than instructed
I used this product not knowing the dangers and it’s been weeks and my betta fish is still struggling and can barely swim to get food at the top. He spends all of his time at the bottom not moving. I’m so upset with myself for using this terrible product. I threw it away immediately and will never use any products again. I’ll be happy to see algae in my tank again. And I’m still hopeful my fish will recover. It’s been weeks but he’s still hanging on.
I bought this product blindly without conducting any research and, unfortunately, it resulted in the death of my entire shrimp colony, which consisted of around 50 shrimps.
P.S I was using 30% less than the recommended dose, but still...
I love the stuff. I had algae bloom and hair algae that got outta control quickly. This stuff cleared my tank in less than an hour. I’ve never seen my water more crystal clear! The hair algae started dying by day 2 and I’m currently on 2nd dose of the “every 3 days” directions. So far, no signs of oxygen deprivation and everything seems stable. Hopefully it stays that way!
Thanks for the video.When I applied this product, I could realized that my fishes are struggling with this chemical and changed the water 50% immediately to save my fishes. Applied under dosage (50%from the recommendation).
I'm so happy to hear that your fish didn't suffer anymore dire consequences from using this product. like I have told others quick action has the best outcome for the survivability of your fish. I hope all is well with them and they continue to do well.
Ive Never had problems with this product! But yall are scaring me so Im gonna stop using lol. Back to the tankrazor
Thanks so much for your video,it was very helpful.We lost all our fish but now we understand why they were so slow and staying at bottom.We won' t be using the Algaefix again.
Do you think this would work with a snapping turtle pond since they go to the surface to breath?
here's the thing, I totally recommend this product under very specific conditions, and that is: if you only have a couple of fish that you can transport into a separate container, THEN then use the dosage and leave it in the tank for an hour... then do a water change of about 50% then add your fish back
Have to agree with u
I followed the instructions verbatim and now having most of my fish dying
If this product have to capacity to kill the fish
Then why have a product like this on the market
Unfortunately people aren't going to see this until it's too late. I'm on day 3 of recovery and my Platys are still struggling. I've seen some minor improvement after adding an additional bubbler. I'm hoping they start eating again soon like you mentioned. Sorry you had to go through this also. Sending love.
I used this product as recommended and 80% of my fish died. I was so careful 😢. I had to remove so much water!! Add new bacteria! Every thing is fine on the remaining fish!
Thank you for posting this video. I used this product because of algae problem, I’ve done a Manuel cleaning added new rocks replaced all plants and did about a 50% water change to scrub out the entire tank. I then got this product to help prevent from coming back. Immediately after watching this video I pushed my fan up to the top and created heavy waves to prevent suffocation. Fish seem ok my biggest fish is fine but it seems some of my smaller fish did have a negative reaction. All of this was from proper dosage if not slightly under. I will monitor and update thanks for the video.
Update after last night smaller fish were having negative reaction sitting at the bottom of the tank, PH was slightly low but back to normal today. Fishes are fine today. Use this product with caution.
this product really is misleading and it sounds like in your case even though you used it properly and even underdosed you still had a reaction in my opinion that should tell people everything you need to know about this product. I am so happy to hear that through all of your efforts your fish seem to be doing okay. can I ask how their appetite is that was one of the longer side effects from them bouncing back for me.
It makes sense you'd lose your largest fish; the largest fish in the ocean are cold water, huge oxygen intake fish...same as large body of freshwater/pond fish like Koi and most Monster Fish. I am surprised you got to 6" on your Green Texan at your regular temperature, it is unlikely to reach their in-captivity length of 12" max over 76 degrees or breed at their favorite 72 degrees; and should never kept over 78.. This variant isn't even an American cichlid, btw. I believe it's more for ponds...like where even if you plan placement of the pond you have to deal with "Acts of God" when it comes to weather and exposure, what have you. Indoors, not so much. There are only "Acts of You". Especially with plastic decor! Take the plastic stuff out and put it in a bucket to treat separately if you're gonna splash chemicals around? Wait, rinse, soak in Prime treated water for 10 min and chuck it back in. I do this with bleach and I've never had a casualty. This was your negligence. Read directions. Pre-Mix in separate container...even store it pre-mixed? Every single fish product that says "safe for fish" will kill your fish if mis-used. It's like saying you thought it said 20 Ibuprophen every 4 to 6 hours instead of 2 ibuprofen every 4 to 6 hours, then blasting Advil on RUclips when you kill your child. You are the caregiver of your fish. Now you are online trolling misinformation. If you wanted to share this with the public, you should have said exactly how much you didn't read the directions by sharing the amount you put in that killed fish in a 125 gallon tank. Tell people the consequences of carelessness and maybe reassure them with data....what if someone realized they only mis-dosed a tiny bit and want to know if they will prob be ok? Then you'd actually be contributing to the hobby. P.S. Live plants help tons for algae, there are plenty that cichlids will not eat and can't dig up if you secure them properly- or even not-tasty floating plants work wonders. Assuming you don't overdose food as well, believe it or not adding plants really is your only option for best algae control if you don't either completely eliminate the sunlight by relocating or cover it with something when being hit by sun..Algae usually is caused by too much to too little light, and picking hi-light needing plants when you needed low lighting plants and vice versa. Anyway good luck and please take some responsibility for yourself. This product has been around a lot longer than you have been a fish keeper. And I'm not even in to API, just saying. What did you have to gain by freaking people out and insisting they return their purchases? Hopefully it's something sensible like you work for Seachem or something.
WHY DID YOU BUY THE PRODUCT? 🤔
unfortunately I watched this after I added 2 new fish to our tank as well as picked this up path the store and put it in my tank. I killed all of our fish!!!! My sons are not very happy with me...
Thank you for that information!
This video is extremely misleading. I have used it for years with my freshwater fish and snails with zero negative side-effects. One dose usually does it. I always make sure to underdose some. Now with my snails I had to supplement their food for a few weeks to let some minor algea build up some. Tbh my snails mostly eat Snello now anyways, so I was not really worried about it. I do note all my tanks have HOB filters and sponge filters, so oxygen is always in the water. I need to note when an algea bloom crashes, there will be oxygen issues observed in the water. I would recommend to everyone to use an airstone or sponge filter when doing this treatment. API really needs to put this on their instructions. I guarantee hypoxia killed all these user's fish.
Don’t forget the tank volume is taken up by rock work and decoration.
Bro, you're blaming a product for a user error??? Cry me a river... it says specifically the dosage to put.....
Just did the same thing definitely won’t use it ever again, killed my Black nastys and didn’t even cure the algae.
even the duckweeds are dying. turning brown.
I've used it twice first time everything was good I used less than recommended this time it killed 8 fish I can't believe this 💔 😔 😢
I'm so sorry this happened to you! I just had another scare with one of there products called "Melafix" used to treat diseases. Once dosed, even under dosed the fish started acting weird. Some research shows this product can also be lethal for fish. I immediately did a large water change and they ended up being fine.
I had the same problem today two water changes later save alll my fish throw in garbage thanks
Class action lawsuit?
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What kind of chemical is this product actually made of?
I’m sorry that this happened but almost anything can hurt fish if overdosed. The fact that 13 of 15 fish survived an overdose tells me you likely wouldn’t have lost any if you had dosed correctly.
Long term effects. This probably shortens the life of the fish
True, it killed all my fish
Tanks for info. I know it wasn't me.
I have tried algea fix. It's very effective. It is normal for it to have some effect on fish, but it's not something serious and will not kill it. I have a tank with a bunch of guppies with friesand apple snails and all are well. Some did move above near the water line and some moved near the substrate but it's just like less than 5 mins. Just read, understand and follow the instructions. Happy Fishing.
Yea mine started flipping out and going crazy! Their breathing rate was super fast and I’ve never seen them act this way. Not gonna lie I freaked out a little lol…but it stabilized and/or they got used to it after about 30 min
Ok update: A day after my 3rd application (properly following directions) I found one of my Chinese Algae eaters dead and the other was dying and breathing super fast. When I came home from work the second one was dead. I’m aware the product takes a lot of the O2 out of the water but I turned my air pump at max to help…the other fish (glo tetras) have been untouched by the stuff…however it killed both my algae eaters
Agreed bro
No fault but your own . You admitted you overdosed. How are the instructions not clear. I read them perfectly clear.
Just bought this crap. And opened it..... So I decided to get on RUclips for a review...... before I put in...... Thanks for head's up.....sry you had to put ur fish threw that with this product
Get to the point . All you are doing is crying
So you over dosed the crap out of your tank then did big water changes and then cleaned all your filters at the same time as you did you water changes 🤔 aswell as doing your research after you dumped way more than was recommended....... i think i know what the problem is and it's not api it's YOU!. Anyone reading my comment do not listen to this guy i literally just used api algaefix for a massive algae bloom in my 220ltr community tank which has many different kinds of fish and it works like magic within 1 hour my tank had almost cleared all the way up with all my fish doing just fine. The product works very well as long as you have some sort of Common sense unlike old mate in this vid.