Walstad Native Journal

[Jorge O'Reilly]

Is it unfeasible to go to the river and collect it yourself, you could do 2 x 50% water changes with a 25l container?
Cheers!

This made me remember Bazz's suggestion. Take a look at the river water... Not my ideal level of clarity.

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

Came back from a shop that sells stuff for plants. "Those" plants, specifically. Buenos Aires... Full of the stuff.

Anyway. I'll begin dosing very, very small amounts of a NPK 3 - 8 - 11 now and again, see if those pinholes start to recede. It also has 1% magnesium and 20% humic and fulvic acids. I diluted two drops in a 500 ml bottle, and threw in a little squeeze. I will repeat every three days. Many of you have experience with this. Opinions?

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

I suspect the Jenynsias can smell whether I actually paid for something or not. I bought some Tiger Amazon Frogbit (native to here, but hard to find) and the cretins are devouring it.

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

I walked past the tank and I saw a female Jenynsia in clear distress/throes of death. I had just added a tiny grain of urea, and I panicked. Literally did a 50% WC in less than 45 seconds, uprooting a good couple of plants in the process. When I calmed down and actually looked harder, all the fish are fine except her, and she seems to have suffered some sort of blunt trauma, right behind her head. Very odd. I don't think she'll make it, too. I wonder what can squish an inch-long fish underwater without me noticing the shift, it has to have been something rather large...