plant problem.... please help picks included!!

reiverix said:
The plant in the 3rd photo in your first post looks like an acorus. It's not aquatic and should be removed. Some of the larger chain stores are famous for selling this type of plant.
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really i didnt have any idea, the grass looking thing?? well maybe i will just take it back or plant it out in a garden....hmmm

odd well i am adding the new puffers right now after i put in the bio spira

then tomorow morning i will check out my plants and clean up a bit
 
3 things:

You may add Excel by SeaChem, this will greatly help, very easy to use.
You need a more plant specific gravel/sand.
You need more plants in the tank, java ferns etc, some floaters.

You'll need some ferts as well.

Regards,
Tom Barr
 
aquatic-Bizkut said:
and a 10 gallon heavily planted getting ready for dwarf puffers
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Just so you know i currently have three dwarf puffers in my ten gallon. They are such cute fellows, with a lot of personality! Just watch out they all are some different, my little boy puff is a little devil:Angel:, and the little girls are so innocent.: I assume you know how many Dps you are getting but IMO three is plenty. I had four, but one died because he was beat up to many times. There just wasnt enough room!

goodluck!

pufferpeep :thm:
 
Temporary fix that will pay dividends, find some Red ramshorns and/ or pond snails. they will eat the algea, create mulm, and help cycle your tank. ammonia and Nitrites do not effect them. the downside is the puffers will kill them off when they arrive. I also agree with Tom that you need more plants. I tried the partially planted scenario, and it's more headache than it's worth. The micro sword will grow in fairly well in time, but that is only if you can check the algae (snails will do it) and get it going good. I have Microsword growing extremely well in two tanks with marginally less light than you have, The one thing I have abserved is that microsword likes nitrates 15-20 PPM. Until I raised my standard dosing levels, I could not get it to grow very well.
Excell does help as well.

As far as the gravel, I run red flint in my show tank, and whatever I have left from yearss gone by in my utility tanks. I only have one tank with plant specific substrate. Things were slow getting started because I did not have any mulm or enrichment of any type, but once the tanks were estabilished they are doing fine. Did you put anything in your substrate to help the plants (Like crushed Peat).
Dave
 
I am glad this site is up and running again, people are full of good advice! I have a 10 gallon tank with 2 6500K bulbs from my LFS. First I had regular gravel, which the plants grew in just fine, then switched to sand. All my plants are doing very well (java ferns, anacharis, anubias nana, dwarf saggitaria, 2 crypts, floating water sprite, and some bushy grassy things I don't know the name of). I add liquid ferts after each water change. I just started adding Flourish Excel. I did not add my plants until after the tank was cycled, though. Just thought I would let you know about my experience. Good luck with your puffers :)
 
well it has been a bit i will post picks soon as i can get some time off of work, working a town nowadays, speaking of that i bought a plant book, some good info and great tips, and i also bought two otos and they seem to do great, they have already cleared up tons of algea, my puffers when first met they loved eachother, they just courted and never had territorial problems, now its about the same, havnt really payed a ton of attention, but im sure they will hopefully breed soon.... i will be getting another female some time soon.... i checke the levels and they all seem to do ok.... looks like the bio spira worked.. except i accidently put in a whole cube of blood worms in their tank, (wayyyyy tooo much) so ooops.... oh well

i guess i will get more plants....i have some corkscrew ordred for me..... and would like some anibus to attach to my little log in there...... or something, any recomendations????
 
I have only tried the manual removal of algae. That works ok and if you keep up with it the algae could go away after a while
 
If you want a leaved plant attached to it, Anubias is the way to go, as it does not require a substrate for its roots.

But if you're like me, then you would tie some Riccia Fluitans on there... Assuming you keep the strong lighting, as it needs moderate to strong light to flourish.

Java or Xmas moss are good candidates as well, all look good on a nice piece of driftwood.
 
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