bluerose
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I have an 8gal planted tank with mostly Anacharis, a few Anubias Nana and what I think may be a Java Fern or sword of some type (it was stuck in a clump of anacharis at the LFS and the owner gave it to me as it was pretty small and shabby looking).
I have several stalks of anacharis that are browning up and dying...
This is subsequent to losing a sick fish (no idea what the problem was, didn't manage to identify it before it died although I suspect it was a tumor as the fish had a very large one).
I do ~20% PWCs weekly, dose with Flourish comprehensive weekly (I do under-dose, but with inverts and a plant substrate I think I'm OK with the half dose-- the plants have been quite happy on this regimen for a while). Tank is lit ~9 hours with 16W fluorescents. Haven't used Excel since I found it melts anacharis and had to replant my whole tank (oops).
The anacharis in my betta tank, which gets probably half the light of the main tank and was grown in the main tank, is green and healthy if slow-growing.
This just occurred to me-- I lost the female betta in the 8gal over the weekend. She was stuck on top of the filter (internal filter, not HOB) and I assumed she had gotten stuck there and died but it's possible she was swept there by the current-- the first fish that died (a neon tetra) was 'cleaned up' by everybody else as I was gone for the weekend. If it was some sort of parasite that killed the neon, the betta, and is getting into my plants... uh-oh.
Shrimp and snail colony are VERY active... snails are all over the place. Good ol' MTS always reproduce to the rescue...
I have several stalks of anacharis that are browning up and dying...
This is subsequent to losing a sick fish (no idea what the problem was, didn't manage to identify it before it died although I suspect it was a tumor as the fish had a very large one).
I do ~20% PWCs weekly, dose with Flourish comprehensive weekly (I do under-dose, but with inverts and a plant substrate I think I'm OK with the half dose-- the plants have been quite happy on this regimen for a while). Tank is lit ~9 hours with 16W fluorescents. Haven't used Excel since I found it melts anacharis and had to replant my whole tank (oops).
The anacharis in my betta tank, which gets probably half the light of the main tank and was grown in the main tank, is green and healthy if slow-growing.
This just occurred to me-- I lost the female betta in the 8gal over the weekend. She was stuck on top of the filter (internal filter, not HOB) and I assumed she had gotten stuck there and died but it's possible she was swept there by the current-- the first fish that died (a neon tetra) was 'cleaned up' by everybody else as I was gone for the weekend. If it was some sort of parasite that killed the neon, the betta, and is getting into my plants... uh-oh.
Shrimp and snail colony are VERY active... snails are all over the place. Good ol' MTS always reproduce to the rescue...