Help..koi keep dying
I am new to this koi hobby and I am having trouble and I am wondering if anyone can help me…I have had fish tanks my whole life and never had problems like this. Anyhow we converted a hot tub into a koi pond so it is a little less then 500 gallons. It has live plants, a filter with UV light made for up to 1000 gallon ponds, a pump, a spitter, and a fountain jet to produce more O2. Everything bad started happening after I treated the pond with algae fix….I lost 5 fish even though I know I did not overdose…maybe lack of O2 since at that time I only had the filter spitter and not the waterfall. I did a partial water change and cleaned out the filter. The algea just keep growing and the water kept getting darker so I bought a new product that is supposed to help a lot called Green Clean. I applied that as directed and next day I lost 2 more fish. I have checked water quality and the only thing that was a problem was high ammonia(I think due to a lot of recent spanwning) so I used Ammo-lock…..the other thing was the PH was somewhat low so I also added a PH increaser. I have now added the next step that they say to use which is Microbe lift/PL. I need help…anyone have any advice. I hate to lose these beautiful fish all of the time.
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