nikipike
Aquarium Advice Regular
Boy does my tank look NASTY!
Had to leave last Friday for a week long trip. Made the decision to leave my tank lights on as for multiple reasons I couldn't get a timer before I left & didn't want the boys watching my fish to have to come over 2x a day.
Had a few of the dwarf sag. plants & my water sprite that I made the decison to toss, but I really didn't loose anything else. Almost everything did have at least a few dead leaves, which made for a lot of dead leaves overall. I went through the best I could & cut the dead ones (I know I missed a couple of the dwarf onion leaves, but I didn't feel like dealing with those plants tonight.) Surprisingly, between the 2 petite nana, there was only 1 dead leaf. Tossed the anacharis into one of my betta tanks, dunno if it'll survive, but it was just one plant to many.
Everything has this brown gunk on it. I think it's decay from the dead leaves
Went out & bought some ghost shrimp (want to see how my bettas treat them before buying any nicer shrimp) hoping they'll help. Woman at the pet store suggested I buy an apple snail for my tank after I specified my tank had live plants
Any other ideas would be appriciated.
Despite the overall appearence, I have found a few good things. Everything looks more "established". The petite nanas look slightly bigger then when I left. One of the dwarf sags I had to remove to clip had a runner w/ new leaves & another one that appeared to have all dead leaves ended up having 2 new leaves on it. And the a. nana has blossomed
PS, i'm very sure the tank looks bad due to to much lighting. Won't be going on any more long trips for a long time & will definately have a timer before then.
Had to leave last Friday for a week long trip. Made the decision to leave my tank lights on as for multiple reasons I couldn't get a timer before I left & didn't want the boys watching my fish to have to come over 2x a day.
Had a few of the dwarf sag. plants & my water sprite that I made the decison to toss, but I really didn't loose anything else. Almost everything did have at least a few dead leaves, which made for a lot of dead leaves overall. I went through the best I could & cut the dead ones (I know I missed a couple of the dwarf onion leaves, but I didn't feel like dealing with those plants tonight.) Surprisingly, between the 2 petite nana, there was only 1 dead leaf. Tossed the anacharis into one of my betta tanks, dunno if it'll survive, but it was just one plant to many.
Everything has this brown gunk on it. I think it's decay from the dead leaves
Went out & bought some ghost shrimp (want to see how my bettas treat them before buying any nicer shrimp) hoping they'll help. Woman at the pet store suggested I buy an apple snail for my tank after I specified my tank had live plants Any other ideas would be appriciated.
Despite the overall appearence, I have found a few good things. Everything looks more "established". The petite nanas look slightly bigger then when I left. One of the dwarf sags I had to remove to clip had a runner w/ new leaves & another one that appeared to have all dead leaves ended up having 2 new leaves on it. And the a. nana has blossomed
PS, i'm very sure the tank looks bad due to to much lighting. Won't be going on any more long trips for a long time & will definately have a timer before then.
