dskidmore
Aquarium Advice Addict
My 75 gallon tank crashed. Given the mild summer we had, and my frustration with the tank, I had not installed my usual summer precautions, and then a heat wave hit.
To be honest, my maintenance had really slacked off as I was so frustrated and no amount of work was solving the problem. By the time I noticed there was a worse problem, all the fish and shrimp were dead, and the MTS were gathered at the surface of the water gasping for air.
I did some big water changes, but then decided that this would be a really good time to just trash the whole thing and start over.
So, all my driftwood and plants worth saving are in a bucket. There is a ton of mulm on top of the recently stirred up sand. This makes the water too cloudy to work with, so I'm thinking of siphoning it out.
I'm thinking of getting a mess of Red Cherry Shrimp as the primary occupants. I'll of course have my snails too, and I'm thinking after the tank matures a bit I might be able to do a filter feeding shrimp type too. (Not sure if I want to go for the common
Bamboo Shrimp or something more rare like the Giant African Filter Shrimp)
Crashed and neglected.
To be honest, my maintenance had really slacked off as I was so frustrated and no amount of work was solving the problem. By the time I noticed there was a worse problem, all the fish and shrimp were dead, and the MTS were gathered at the surface of the water gasping for air.
I did some big water changes, but then decided that this would be a really good time to just trash the whole thing and start over.
So, all my driftwood and plants worth saving are in a bucket. There is a ton of mulm on top of the recently stirred up sand. This makes the water too cloudy to work with, so I'm thinking of siphoning it out.
I'm thinking of getting a mess of Red Cherry Shrimp as the primary occupants. I'll of course have my snails too, and I'm thinking after the tank matures a bit I might be able to do a filter feeding shrimp type too. (Not sure if I want to go for the common
Bamboo Shrimp or something more rare like the Giant African Filter Shrimp)
Crashed and neglected.