I went away for a week and left my housemates in charge, it was fairly straight forward a measuring spoonful of EasyCarbo, a full dose of TPN+ and feed the fish. One of them did exactly that each day which would have been fine but the other one (who's on nights) thought he was dealing with the fish (but not the plants) since he did it last time so he too fed the fish... so my poor tank was double fed and probably over fed on each feed jusging byt the amount of food they got through!
Unfortunately this was probably the cause of my last 2 guppies being floaters when I got back, a bout of planaria and the huge snail population explosion
So now my inhabitants are...
4 Penguin Tetras
1 Gold Spot Dwarf Plec
About 8 Cherry Shrimp (never can count them all but I haven't seen any dead and that was how many I added)
Lots of MTS (They seem to like my liquid rock water and grow the prettiest shells)
Way too many mini ramshorn snails.
So the jungle to which I returned...
But armed with my new UKaps pruning kit
I set about taming the jungle and removing all the mini-ramshorn snails that I could...
The final result...
The vallis isn't happy, it keeps on losing leaves, I'm not sure if this is to do with the EasyCarbo, I've read that is doesn't get on well with it but at the moment I'm using solely it since my DIY CO2 kit has sprung a leak a couple of days ago and I haven't had a chance to fix it. Most of the Camboba is having a rough time too I'm really not sure why. The lighting should be high enough and I'm dosing about 10ml of DIY TPN+ per day, weekly large water changes.
The algae seems to be on its back foot though which is great
I've also removed the moss and the moss balls, I like the balls but they made the tank seem to crowded, they just didn't fit. The moss needed re-doing and I questioned whether I really wanted it in there so I'm taking a sabbatical from it and deciding whether I want to put it back in. Both are currently in a holding 'tank' with no lights/ferts but seem to be ok.
The crypts are doing amazingly, as are the other mini plants on the front right (some form of dwarf amazon sword?)
Unfortunately this was probably the cause of my last 2 guppies being floaters when I got back, a bout of planaria and the huge snail population explosion
So now my inhabitants are...
4 Penguin Tetras
1 Gold Spot Dwarf Plec
About 8 Cherry Shrimp (never can count them all but I haven't seen any dead and that was how many I added)
Lots of MTS (They seem to like my liquid rock water and grow the prettiest shells)
Way too many mini ramshorn snails.
So the jungle to which I returned...
But armed with my new UKaps pruning kit
I set about taming the jungle and removing all the mini-ramshorn snails that I could...
The final result...
The vallis isn't happy, it keeps on losing leaves, I'm not sure if this is to do with the EasyCarbo, I've read that is doesn't get on well with it but at the moment I'm using solely it since my DIY CO2 kit has sprung a leak a couple of days ago and I haven't had a chance to fix it. Most of the Camboba is having a rough time too I'm really not sure why. The lighting should be high enough and I'm dosing about 10ml of DIY TPN+ per day, weekly large water changes.
The algae seems to be on its back foot though which is great
I've also removed the moss and the moss balls, I like the balls but they made the tank seem to crowded, they just didn't fit. The moss needed re-doing and I questioned whether I really wanted it in there so I'm taking a sabbatical from it and deciding whether I want to put it back in. Both are currently in a holding 'tank' with no lights/ferts but seem to be ok.
The crypts are doing amazingly, as are the other mini plants on the front right (some form of dwarf amazon sword?)