Moments before spontaneously combusting Mr. Gardener at
was heard opining:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:48:09 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:
Moments before spontaneously combusting Mr. Gardener at
was heard opining:
Well. That tank's done. A little over 2 hours. Left a pretty bad
mess
in the living room. Pruned a lot, clipped off a lot of leaves,
pulled
a couple of Amazons and trimmed back healthy roots, removed soft
brown dead roots.
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I didn't trim any leaves at all. The plecos and ottos removed the
black crud and fuzzy stuff. Since adding the Excel no new spots are
appearing on the other plants and new plants. The cleaned off
leaves look ok. Rather than stress the plants any more buy
performing amputations on them I'm going to see what happens. Most
have nice new growth anyway.
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Well, if underwater is anything like outdoors in the soil, root
pruning and careful leaf pruning can have an invigorating effect.
This is true but these plants were already under stress from being covered
with this crud. And the leaves cleaned off look healthy. All I can see is
remains of some "soot". The excel doesn't seem to kill this stuff but does
stop it from growing. It's had no effect yet in a 10g tank thought. The
black crud looks the same (no plecos or ottos in the 10g tank). I ordered 2
liters of the stuff this morning. The only fish in this 10g tank are two
small goldfish. Because I cut back on feeding they ate all the elodia (pond
weed).
I
have a good sized lawn made from several "squares" of micro sword,
someone tell me the real name for that stuff, please, and I gave it a
haircut straight across, just the tips were affected. Your way or
mine, either should work. I'm low on algae eaters at the moment, I've
lost two of my three ancistrus to the ominous "red spot", and I
haven't found any ottos that appeared healthy enough to purchase yet.
They're coming into the stores here now in large numbers. You'll probably
start to see them soon. The clown pleco also works over the plants and he'll
only get to 6" maximum. Each 55g now has 2 ottos, a clown pleco and a
regular pleco. Every other night I drop in a slice of zucchini but have no
idea if they're eating it.
I'm watching a few at my lfs that he is not selling until he is
certain they are fattening up. A good thing that came out of today's
job, I haven't seen my third ancistrus for a couple of weeks, so while
I was already making a mess in the tank with the water level down to
40%, I moved some driftwood and rock work, looking and feeling for
that guy, all in vain. So I went back to my plants and when I tucked a
little java moss into the opening of the ancistrus pvc cave, he came
flying out of there - he's added some whiskers and weight since I last
saw him. So I'm in search of a lady friend for him again. Never
dreamed I'd find him in his cave.
LOL!!! Where else would the little stinker be? :-D
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