Blos85
Aquarium Advice Activist
So a friend of mine came to me the other day with a problem. Her water was hazy white. Well simple simple. I finally got her to dive into real plants and as we all did or do she went from 0-10plants in less then a week so i explained to her its an imbalance of bacteria. Her tank is a 55g fully established with a large bio-load of fish.
Well i explained to her the plant feed on the nitrogen that the bacteria did and adding all the plants like that was taking away from her established bacteria and it had to balance out again in turn bacteria was dying....well that brought me to a question! I was told that digging your gravel kills the BB and can harm bottom feeders cuz the dead bacteria releases toxins up through the gravel.
Does that mean what happened to her tank her fish could have died?????
Can you stock a tank too fast with plants just the same as stocking to fast with fish?
Well i explained to her the plant feed on the nitrogen that the bacteria did and adding all the plants like that was taking away from her established bacteria and it had to balance out again in turn bacteria was dying....well that brought me to a question! I was told that digging your gravel kills the BB and can harm bottom feeders cuz the dead bacteria releases toxins up through the gravel.
Does that mean what happened to her tank her fish could have died?????
Can you stock a tank too fast with plants just the same as stocking to fast with fish?