What to do on a rainy Sunday? Can't play golf so......
Being recently inspired by the new Aquascaping sub forum I decided to tackle my low light 55g. I pulled out all the plants, rocks, driftwood and all the accessories that by now were covered in BBA. Big gravel vac. Cleaned the filter. 50% pwc. More than an hours worth of diatom filtering.
I decided that the only plants I wanted to put back in this tank were the Anubias nana, crypts, and a few giant val. 20 cups of water and 1 cup of pure bleach went into a large bucket. The plants went in for 3 minutes and then were transferred to a bucket of fresh water ard rinsed. Rocks and driftwood had the same treatment but stayed in bleach solution considerably longer.
I'm happy to report that this really seems to have worked. Time will tell if I've damaged the plants. They appear to be fine with just the remnants of dead BBA. I didn't trim a single leaf on the Anubias and if they survive, will have enough to completely cover the foreground.
Being recently inspired by the new Aquascaping sub forum I decided to tackle my low light 55g. I pulled out all the plants, rocks, driftwood and all the accessories that by now were covered in BBA. Big gravel vac. Cleaned the filter. 50% pwc. More than an hours worth of diatom filtering.
I decided that the only plants I wanted to put back in this tank were the Anubias nana, crypts, and a few giant val. 20 cups of water and 1 cup of pure bleach went into a large bucket. The plants went in for 3 minutes and then were transferred to a bucket of fresh water ard rinsed. Rocks and driftwood had the same treatment but stayed in bleach solution considerably longer.
I'm happy to report that this really seems to have worked. Time will tell if I've damaged the plants. They appear to be fine with just the remnants of dead BBA. I didn't trim a single leaf on the Anubias and if they survive, will have enough to completely cover the foreground.