Ok Yet again and trust me pissing me off.:swear: i am noticing ick. Not sure why in the heck it keeps showing up, so I am going to pull all of my fish out of my planted aquarium and put them in the quarantine tank. My specs are perfect nia is 0 ite is 0 and ate is 5ppm. Any ways do I need to do anything special for my planted tank for the plants? if you look at my other thread :ludwigia: I am running co2 and trying to fertilize macro and micro with diy co2. what else should I do so the plants will grow since no one will be pooping or eating in the tank. Also since there is ick in the tank can i raise the temp to 85 and add aquarium salt without harming the plants so that I can kill this ick once and for all?
If i take out all my fish to quarantine will my plants be ok?
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Several reasons. I want to isolate the ick from the fish so they have nothing to even have a chance of becoming the "cyst" stage on. They will be seperated a good month this time since I have had ick 3 times in 4 months now. and I never removed the fish before. Secondly I want to reaquascape my tank and the fish dont need the added stress of me sticking my hands in there 2-3x a week for the next month till I figure out what I like. Finally I am pushing my limit on my 37g tank. 1 angel 1 rts 2 bn pleco 2 gbr 1 dwarf gold guarami 1 black skirt tetra(his buddies died last ick outbreak) and 10 neons... oh and an african dwarf frog. So in a month I want to take the neons and place them in the planted tank along with the 2 mateing german blue rams and get snail and shrimp for the clean up crew in the planted and then the other fish will get rehomed in my other 29 tank.
the plants would be easier to move probably. you'll have to feed them but without the fish they'll have no food source in their container for ich to survive. ferts will do the job nicely if enough were added.
Yea sorry, you are right the plants would be very easy to move, but I have special substrate in the planted aquarium for the plants. Its my first planted, so yes moving the plants would be easy, it wont help me accomplish my main goals of reaquascaping and lightening up the fishload on the main aquarium.
But what you are saying though is if I still continue to fertilize the plants should be good? Should i throw in fish flakes or frozen blood works to keep the nitrate cycle going?
:feedback: really i want to keep my plants alive and all my bacteria(cant remeber the name of the good bacterai) alive with no fish for a good month, and help will help
1)Use ferts.
2) If what you treat your QT tank for ick is plant safe,then when you do wc gravel clean your QT tank so you have alot of mulm in your bucket and put that in your plant tank.
That way they get their nutrients either way.
2) If what you treat your QT tank for ick is plant safe,then when you do wc gravel clean your QT tank so you have alot of mulm in your bucket and put that in your plant tank.
That way they get their nutrients either way.
it might be necessary to move some plants to get your fish out anyway. to keep the cycle going in the main tank without a mini cycle might prove difficult either way. for nitrates and phosphates you can just dose them too. fish food is not necessary for plants... it's the byproduct... which can be obtained easy enough.
kno3, kh2po4, k2so4... should provide your macros pretty good.
you don't necessarily need substrate for your plants... especially for a short period. many plants do quite well floating or tied down.
kno3, kh2po4, k2so4... should provide your macros pretty good.
you don't necessarily need substrate for your plants... especially for a short period. many plants do quite well floating or tied down.