I just made a hugeeeeeee mistake!
Let me start from the beginning:
I started my tank 6 months ago, putting this thing called plant substrate by tropica underneath my gravel which would provide nutrients for root feeders such as my crypts. This dirt like substrate needed to be removed as they recommend because 6 months have passed and nutrients would have been spent (I had used half and was going to use the second half today).
I removed everything but after I uprooted the plants, I could no longer see the gravel, the water was brown!!! Despite my many efforts, I couldn't save the gravel as it was mixed in with this dirt.
Now, I sit here looking at what used to be my prized tank and what I see is a mess of a tank with no gravel (bare bottom) and all my lovely plants floating (don't have anything to anchor them down).
I realise that my tank will need to be cycled again so should I do fish in cycle or put these fish in my other tank which is already overcrowded with fry???
My readings are:
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrite 0
Nitrate0
Let me start from the beginning:
I started my tank 6 months ago, putting this thing called plant substrate by tropica underneath my gravel which would provide nutrients for root feeders such as my crypts. This dirt like substrate needed to be removed as they recommend because 6 months have passed and nutrients would have been spent (I had used half and was going to use the second half today).
I removed everything but after I uprooted the plants, I could no longer see the gravel, the water was brown!!! Despite my many efforts, I couldn't save the gravel as it was mixed in with this dirt.
Now, I sit here looking at what used to be my prized tank and what I see is a mess of a tank with no gravel (bare bottom) and all my lovely plants floating (don't have anything to anchor them down).
I realise that my tank will need to be cycled again so should I do fish in cycle or put these fish in my other tank which is already overcrowded with fry???
My readings are:
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrite 0
Nitrate0