Re: My Worst Planted Aquarium Mistake (Please Contribute Stories!)

[yj]

Ealier this year, just when I finally got everything in my new planted
tank going well, a few of my fish got ich. I went to the store and
bought some standard ich medication. As suggested, I turned up the
temperature to 82F to speedup the ich cycle. After a day, half of all
my plants melted away and more fish got ich. I guess I was making a
very bad vegetable soup and none of my fish liked it. I've never used
medication nor turned up the temperature to above 74F since then. All
my plants and fish eventually recovered.

[Happy'Cam'per]

Pffft :)

Try a Fresh DIY mixture (newbie virgin mix), left overnight to bubble away
into the filter intake. Morning woke up to a nice sugary milky yeast
smelling tank, could'nt even see the plants ......(filled the bottle too
high) very funny now but at the time had to redo the whole tank. LOL.
--
"In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
antisymmetric,
second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."


"yj" > wrote in message
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> Ealier this year, just when I finally got everything in my new planted
> tank going well, a few of my fish got ich. I went to the store and
> bought some standard ich medication. As suggested, I turned up the
> temperature to 82F to speedup the ich cycle. After a day, half of all
> my plants melted away and more fish got ich. I guess I was making a
> very bad vegetable soup and none of my fish liked it. I've never used
> medication nor turned up the temperature to above 74F since then. All
> my plants and fish eventually recovered.
>

[Dick]

On 7 Dec 2004 00:10:44 -0800, "yj" > wrote:

>Ealier this year, just when I finally got everything in my new planted
>tank going well, a few of my fish got ich. I went to the store and
>bought some standard ich medication. As suggested, I turned up the
>temperature to 82F to speedup the ich cycle. After a day, half of all
>my plants melted away and more fish got ich. I guess I was making a
>very bad vegetable soup and none of my fish liked it. I've never used
>medication nor turned up the temperature to above 74F since then. All
>my plants and fish eventually recovered.

After having my 75 gallon tank for 5 months, I decided I wanted to
lower the pH to 7.0 down from 7.8. Since this required chemical to
achieve, I got smart and decided to put diluted hydrochloric acid in
the tank. I was working, but the tank would go back to 7.8 awfully
fast. To this day I can't figure what happened, but after making the
daily adjustment, I saw all the fish cowering in a corner, their eyes
were red and a few were dead. As fast as I could I removed water and
replaced it. Most of the fish recovered, but I lost some that were
quite special. I decided no more chemicals in my tank. That happened
18 months ago. No more accidents and about 3 months ago I even
stopped using charcoal in my filtration. I rely totally on 20% water
changes twice a week.

dick

[Robert Flory]

"Happy'Cam'per" > wrote in message
...
> Pffft :)
>
> Try a Fresh DIY mixture (newbie virgin mix), left overnight to bubble away
> into the filter intake. Morning woke up to a nice sugary milky yeast
> smelling tank, could'nt even see the plants ......(filled the bottle too
> high) very funny now but at the time had to redo the whole tank. LOL.
> --
> "In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
> antisymmetric,
> second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."
>
Try that with yeast jello mixture ........ instant red or green tank ;-)
Bob