Cohenjl13
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So i have two basic questions ill ask so you can read them and move on before you get into the details if you dont care:
1)In my first planted tank, i have a lot of plant pieces floating around and it looks like some sort of mucus floating off plant leaves (and freely). Is it something i doing wrong with the floating plant debris issue like, water quality, not enough minerals, to much current, etc? I see a lot of peoples planted tanks look spotless!
Also, i know the mucus can be a bacterial bloom, from what i have seen, but I'm open to other suggestions
2)I currently have a 110 gallon planted tank with the following fish:
15 Rummy Noses
8 Oto Cats
7 Corys
5 Bleeding Hearts
3 Dojo Loaches (i know they don't go well in planted tanks i get it, but i love them and they have only dug up one plant so far)
1 Clown Pleco
2 Ghost Shrimp (Maybe, i have seen 1 in different places at different times, probably dinner though)
Is this to much for my tank? Maybe i can get more? Or should i think about moving some of the smaller guys to my 10g betta tank?
My 110:
Filter: Eheim Pro 4+ (rated for 160g)
Substrate: Fluval (soft for the loaches) and CaribSea mix (mostly Fluval)
Light: Finnex Planted+ 24/7
Temp: ~78
PH: 7.6
Nitrates: ~20
Ammonia/Nitrite: 0
Currently doing a check every 2/3 days and a weekly water change. I add API leaf Zone 24 hours after each water change.
My tank has been up for a little over a month now. The only issues i have had so far is my two small weather loaches look to have fin rot, i took them out and gave them meds for a couple days but their fins dont look much better (only been a couple days since treatment, treatment lasted about a week) and the deaths of two bamboo shrimp within two or three days of them coming home.
Any suggestions would be great, thank you!
P.S. I have what looks like to be algae build up in my Eheim tubing, should i clean these out, how often?
1)In my first planted tank, i have a lot of plant pieces floating around and it looks like some sort of mucus floating off plant leaves (and freely). Is it something i doing wrong with the floating plant debris issue like, water quality, not enough minerals, to much current, etc? I see a lot of peoples planted tanks look spotless!
Also, i know the mucus can be a bacterial bloom, from what i have seen, but I'm open to other suggestions
2)I currently have a 110 gallon planted tank with the following fish:
15 Rummy Noses
8 Oto Cats
7 Corys
5 Bleeding Hearts
3 Dojo Loaches (i know they don't go well in planted tanks i get it, but i love them and they have only dug up one plant so far)
1 Clown Pleco
2 Ghost Shrimp (Maybe, i have seen 1 in different places at different times, probably dinner though)
Is this to much for my tank? Maybe i can get more? Or should i think about moving some of the smaller guys to my 10g betta tank?
My 110:
Filter: Eheim Pro 4+ (rated for 160g)
Substrate: Fluval (soft for the loaches) and CaribSea mix (mostly Fluval)
Light: Finnex Planted+ 24/7
Temp: ~78
PH: 7.6
Nitrates: ~20
Ammonia/Nitrite: 0
Currently doing a check every 2/3 days and a weekly water change. I add API leaf Zone 24 hours after each water change.
My tank has been up for a little over a month now. The only issues i have had so far is my two small weather loaches look to have fin rot, i took them out and gave them meds for a couple days but their fins dont look much better (only been a couple days since treatment, treatment lasted about a week) and the deaths of two bamboo shrimp within two or three days of them coming home.
Any suggestions would be great, thank you!
P.S. I have what looks like to be algae build up in my Eheim tubing, should i clean these out, how often?
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