Hey I used to have a really nice 20L aquarium without CO2 or any techs. All I did was add water when needed went running like that for more than 6 months... all the shrimp seem to love it and reproduce a lot
The specs where a 26watt spiral bulb, closest possible to the water
Substrate eat and sand with indian almond leaves
Plants:
Nesea
HC
Dwarf Hair Grass
1 lillie
unidentified heart shaped plant
Residents:
Cherry Shrimp
2 Ottos
I tried out one day dosing with yeast CO2 and everything seemed fine for a couple of hours and went off to work, when I came back the shrimp weren't even moving and my pH went from 7.6 to 6.2... in less than a day, I rapidly removed the CO2, added some O2 and removed couple of shrimps and the ottos from the tank
Since that tragedy it's been about 3 weeks and I've been trying to save the tank, I've been doing 50% water changes everyday and added a 40L filter I had laying around in order to try and save it but the water keeps on stinking, I've tried to remove as many dead shrimps as posible but I imagen theres a lot more in the plants. Besides that I have a tremendous algae bloom, some green hair algae and some type of gray algae all over the tank and the water has a witish color.
What do you guys recomend? If things keep going like this im gonna try and save as many shrimp I can and start it all over again... first I'd like to try and see if theres any way I could save it. The only positive thing I've had from it is the little heart shapped leaves plant I had in the middle has grown enormous. ...
The specs where a 26watt spiral bulb, closest possible to the water
Substrate eat and sand with indian almond leaves
Plants:
Nesea
HC
Dwarf Hair Grass
1 lillie
unidentified heart shaped plant
Residents:
Cherry Shrimp
2 Ottos
I tried out one day dosing with yeast CO2 and everything seemed fine for a couple of hours and went off to work, when I came back the shrimp weren't even moving and my pH went from 7.6 to 6.2... in less than a day, I rapidly removed the CO2, added some O2 and removed couple of shrimps and the ottos from the tank
Since that tragedy it's been about 3 weeks and I've been trying to save the tank, I've been doing 50% water changes everyday and added a 40L filter I had laying around in order to try and save it but the water keeps on stinking, I've tried to remove as many dead shrimps as posible but I imagen theres a lot more in the plants. Besides that I have a tremendous algae bloom, some green hair algae and some type of gray algae all over the tank and the water has a witish color.
What do you guys recomend? If things keep going like this im gonna try and save as many shrimp I can and start it all over again... first I'd like to try and see if theres any way I could save it. The only positive thing I've had from it is the little heart shapped leaves plant I had in the middle has grown enormous. ...