Krefie's Attempt at Planted

Looking good man.

 

Thanks @Hawk, got some cherry barb tonight, and moved a few plants, will upload pics tomorrow!

 

Looks nice, a good schooling fish will look great, and some ferns perhaps on your drift wood?

 

@HennieRoux, I have 2 java ferns on my driftwood at the moment, but they haven't grown in the last 2 months...I don't know why, maybe they require Co2 or something I'm not giving?

The ferns and those 2 red thingy plants (terrible at remembering the names) aren't doing well at all, the ferns aren't growing, and the red plants are deteriorating fast in the last 2 weeks.

 

Ludwigia Glandulosa - Requires high light, co2 injection, Trace and Iron

 

Java ferns are slow growers. They are often used in low tech tanks as they have minimal requirements.

 

@Hawk, thanks for clearing that up, hmmmm, maybe then take them out as they will just keep on going backwards?

 

@Krefie: It takes awhile for Java Fern to start growing and taking off, it does not take up all it's nutrients through it roots but also through its leaves dosing something like Tropica would help.

 

Most rookie mistake I've made up until now. Added 2 pearl gouramies over the weekend, They had ich (it would seem), realised it to late and lost 21 fish in 2 days. Ironically the gouramies are the only fish that survived.

Guess I'm back to square one.

Silver lining (only one I can see), I can get new fish, what community or setup would you guys recommend with the gouramies, should I try and breed them maybe as solo fish in the tank or what suggestions do you have?

Krefie

 

eish I did the same few weeks ago, didn't lose as much but wiped out my tank, need to do a quarantine tank.

 

I'm sorry to hear that... But Ich does not kill fish that fast. No way on earth it would do that so quickly. I think there is some other underlying issue, or some other quick killing disease that was introduced. But white spot will never kill fish in 2 days.

 

@Sean J hmmmm...oki...then I have no clue, was working so hard had no time to checkup on the fish tank, after I realised it was to late.

I did all the test I have and everything was a-ok (PH, NH4, and NO3 or something, Temp Stable at 26)....maybe something else then...will have a good look at the tank tonight. Problem is it only happened after I put in the gouramies, nothing else changed...so I guess it had to be the Gouramies. What I did notice though (too late) was that the fish would twirl against the substrate and Driftwood. Scrathing themselves against it. Took out the gouramies, raised the temp, and added salt. Don't know if it would've helped but it was a start, nothing else died thus far.

I assumed it was Ich. Any suggestions?

 

hmmm @Krefie I didn't click last night that something was wrong with this picture... @SeanJ is right could not have been that so quickly...

 

I don't know. Maybe 1 fish caught something, died, the others ate it and got what he had.

 

Did the fish die after you added the salt and raised the temp or before? It could have been a temp , salt shock that killed the fish and not the ich itself. I've had ich before and it come and go but never killed fish. There appearance only changed with the time of the ich infection.

I've read a thread on how to treat ich with a planted aquarium. Ich goes trough a period of development and only on curtain times in this period you can treat it. In a short summary it's on the fish it grows to a point explodes drops off and hangs around in the tank for a week or 2 and settles again on fish and repeat a circle of life again. In the period of being on fish it can't be treated but in the time of the bacteria in the water is the only time to treat it.

I couldn't find a medicine locally that didn't had a copper base so I went with the tempreture and salt treatment. Once I detected the ich on my fish I raised the temp with one degree each day until I recheased 32 degrees then I added the salt. I've only added 2 table spoons on my 120 liter tank. Kept the temp there for a week added another 2spoons salt and only a week after that start to drop the temp to 30 degrees, another week later dropped it another degree. Then I kept the temp on 28 degrees for a month. Some of my plant species grew like hell but the ich was gone. That was my experience but it seems to have worked. I'm back to a 26 degrees tank again and ich free.

Look for a "My planted tank" threat and you will see my tank where it was and where it is now 3 months later with CO2 and Seachem. I've used Seachem Florish, Excel, Potassium, Nitrogen, Phosphorus. It's not extremely expensive I think I've paid R350 for all and still using it 3 months later adding it twice a week

On a thread around Java fern turn brown and no more growth they suggested I should add Potassium and since then my Java ferns starting to recover, the only trouble is Java fern grows very slow but it's recovering.

If I'm not mistaking you mentioned about your red plants that doesn't want to grow. Light and light and light is very important for them since they don't have green to help. Adding Co2 and extra sups for them is needed to show growth. Mine grows but needs more light, but once in my new tank they will go.

good luck but keep us up to date with photo's to help you out.

 

@Tetra: Ich can indeed kills fish, especially when it enters the gills, causing repertory problems for the fish making them suffocate to death. It also weakens the fish causing them to contract secondary inefection