It has been two weeks since we put fish in the new 55 gallon tank. The second day a otocinclus died. May be the potassium permanganate we used to clean the plants from snails before putting them in the tank. Otocinclus goes sucking everything, and a plant not well rinsed could have been poisonous.
The Seachem pH tester definitely is not working. I surrounded with the pH issue. The tap water here has a very high pH and using buffers to low it will stress the fish more as result of changes when we change water than let it high. Two big pieces of driftwood should low the pH naturally.
About one week ago I though to put Tetra FloraPride. Was not a good idea as I spent a lot of the product and still I am changing water often. At the second day the water was all green. Fearing of a algae bloom I decided to change 50% water three days after.
Now can be seen little light green dots in the tips of the mosses. That means that it gives a boost to the plants.
Here are some pictures of the aquarium today.
Soon we want to buy some tetra neons to quarantine and then add to the aquarium.
1 comment:
A the new tank looks good so far you still gotta tweak a little bit... live plants do tend to put the Ph level out of wack... thats why i didn't mess w/ it w/ mine
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