I ordered a bunch of plants from azgardens.com this past week. I got a false sense of security and instead of disinfecting the plants in potassium permanganate (which I have in the house, by the way), I rinsed them off in tap water and put them in a bucket overnight.
Well, I was planting them today and my husband happened to look in the bucket and says, "Hey, there's a worm in these plants."
8O
Horrified, I looked in the bucket and there was some sort of freaky nematode about an inch and a half long swimming around in the bucket.
I was so freaked out I tossed the remaining two bunches of glossostigma and the last bunch of hygrophilia tropic sunset.
Now I'm worried that there were more of them (I would guess, most likely, that there were) and that they're now in one of my two planted tanks. I only hope that whatever it is isn't harmful to the fish.
The moral of the story: don't be an idiot--disinfect your plants! I learned my lesson once before by getting a cyano infestation from infected cabomba. You'd think I'd learn, but noooooo...
*sigh*
Well, I was planting them today and my husband happened to look in the bucket and says, "Hey, there's a worm in these plants."
8O
Horrified, I looked in the bucket and there was some sort of freaky nematode about an inch and a half long swimming around in the bucket.
I was so freaked out I tossed the remaining two bunches of glossostigma and the last bunch of hygrophilia tropic sunset.
Now I'm worried that there were more of them (I would guess, most likely, that there were) and that they're now in one of my two planted tanks. I only hope that whatever it is isn't harmful to the fish.
The moral of the story: don't be an idiot--disinfect your plants! I learned my lesson once before by getting a cyano infestation from infected cabomba. You'd think I'd learn, but noooooo...
*sigh*