7Enigma
Aquarium Advice Addict
So I purchased my first plant from our local PetSmart and didn't want to bring any bad things into the tank (be it fish diseases or other forms of algae). So I did my typical 30 second peroxide dip (I drained the water in the bag, put about a cup of water in the bag with the plant and a shot of peroxide and mixed for 30 seconds). I then immediately washed it off in tap water and threw it in my QT tank (10 gallon).
It didn't look 100% when I bought it, but seemed healthy enough. Today (2 days later) it looks like its melting, has some hair or some other string-like algae on it, and I have no idea if it will make it.
This tank has been dosed with Excel occasionally but NOT for over a week. I've heard Excel quickly becomes unusable to the plants and would assume this would make it ineffective for killing the anacharis (since crypts, and anacharis both melt when in the presence of Excel).
So my question is, did the short peroxide dip kill the plant? and if so is there any safe dip that would be harsh enough to kill algae (not looking to kill snails/etc since I have snails in my tank already by choice).
Thanks, and I'll get a pic up later if I can.
It didn't look 100% when I bought it, but seemed healthy enough. Today (2 days later) it looks like its melting, has some hair or some other string-like algae on it, and I have no idea if it will make it.
This tank has been dosed with Excel occasionally but NOT for over a week. I've heard Excel quickly becomes unusable to the plants and would assume this would make it ineffective for killing the anacharis (since crypts, and anacharis both melt when in the presence of Excel).
So my question is, did the short peroxide dip kill the plant? and if so is there any safe dip that would be harsh enough to kill algae (not looking to kill snails/etc since I have snails in my tank already by choice).
Thanks, and I'll get a pic up later if I can.