kribbman
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Hi guys its been a while since ive been around.
Anyways I was having serious trouble with snails a while back, It turns out they completely overwhelmed my tank. I tried eradicating them by all means sugested here and none of them worked. In the end both of my kribbs died and I took the clown back to the LFS, he was getting territorial. I was left with a plants and snails. so I got tired of them and just poured about 20 gal of boiling water in there and kept doing this for about a week. They didnt die. so I put some bleach in the water. They didnt die..
so I put some more bleach in the water In the end they all died but now even after chaningin water on an almost daily basis ..boiling the substrate, rocks and drift wood It dosent seem like the tank is cycling...
I have all the equipment running and put in 2 air stones as well. and I threw in a shrimp.. but about 1 week has passed and although i do have a rise in amonia nothing seems to decompose in the tank...and no other parameters are changing either..
Im guessing the tank is still leaching chemicals into the water and inhibiting bacterial growth, not to mention is probably going to be toxic to fish
anybody ever beenthrough this? any advice?
Anyways I was having serious trouble with snails a while back, It turns out they completely overwhelmed my tank. I tried eradicating them by all means sugested here and none of them worked. In the end both of my kribbs died and I took the clown back to the LFS, he was getting territorial. I was left with a plants and snails. so I got tired of them and just poured about 20 gal of boiling water in there and kept doing this for about a week. They didnt die. so I put some bleach in the water. They didnt die..
so I put some more bleach in the water In the end they all died but now even after chaningin water on an almost daily basis ..boiling the substrate, rocks and drift wood It dosent seem like the tank is cycling...
I have all the equipment running and put in 2 air stones as well. and I threw in a shrimp.. but about 1 week has passed and although i do have a rise in amonia nothing seems to decompose in the tank...and no other parameters are changing either..
Im guessing the tank is still leaching chemicals into the water and inhibiting bacterial growth, not to mention is probably going to be toxic to fish
anybody ever beenthrough this? any advice?