Togliat
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Know this is a generalized question with many potential variables.
This might help reduce the number of answers relevant to my scenario:
From Bottom feeder tablets bottle:
"Nutrafin MAX bottom feeder sinking food tablets"
Tablets with earthworm meal
Long-lasting, feeds fish, not gravel
A nutritious food for all bottom feeders
Multivitamins
They are aspirin-sized tablets
155g freshwater tank (60" long x 26" tall x 18" deep).
Stock:
Two angelfish
Three coreys
Six smallish 6" tall amazon sword plants.
Substrate: sand #20 grain size
Filtration: Fluval FX5 with three baskets:
Mechanical with some biological from active LFS filter
Carbon pad with some biological from active LFS filter
Active water polisher from LFS with new biological fluval biomax cylinders. (hoping LFS filters colonize my canister baskets)
It is a new aquarium set up - about three weeks old.
Water tests are dialed in, except for pH which is running high at 7.6
I am treating that gingerly on a daily basis with some solution.
Anyway, the bottom feeder tabs have been in the tank for three days now and remain only partially eaten.
I see both the coreys and angels nibbling at them on occasion.
There is a "ghostly" covering that has formed around them. Perhaps it is bacteria. I am not sure.
Should I remove the tabs before they increase my ammonia, or should leave them as there might not be much effect due to water volume and filtration...?
TIA,
Tony
This might help reduce the number of answers relevant to my scenario:
From Bottom feeder tablets bottle:
"Nutrafin MAX bottom feeder sinking food tablets"
Tablets with earthworm meal
Long-lasting, feeds fish, not gravel
A nutritious food for all bottom feeders
Multivitamins
They are aspirin-sized tablets
155g freshwater tank (60" long x 26" tall x 18" deep).
Stock:
Two angelfish
Three coreys
Six smallish 6" tall amazon sword plants.
Substrate: sand #20 grain size
Filtration: Fluval FX5 with three baskets:
Mechanical with some biological from active LFS filter
Carbon pad with some biological from active LFS filter
Active water polisher from LFS with new biological fluval biomax cylinders. (hoping LFS filters colonize my canister baskets)
It is a new aquarium set up - about three weeks old.
Water tests are dialed in, except for pH which is running high at 7.6
I am treating that gingerly on a daily basis with some solution.
Anyway, the bottom feeder tabs have been in the tank for three days now and remain only partially eaten.
I see both the coreys and angels nibbling at them on occasion.
There is a "ghostly" covering that has formed around them. Perhaps it is bacteria. I am not sure.
Should I remove the tabs before they increase my ammonia, or should leave them as there might not be much effect due to water volume and filtration...?
TIA,
Tony
