Stocking advice for a planted 92 corner tank

My moss is going crazy, especially under the light. Growing algae too. I can see why one would find it bothersome. Riccia is finally behaving, except where it isn't. Haven't moved anything, but I have added root tabs, and started dosing ferts to take care of this nitrogen deficiency.
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Bunsen Honeydew said:
My moss is going crazy, especially under the light. Growing algae too. I can see why one would find it bothersome. Riccia is finally behaving, except where it isn't. Haven't moved anything, but I have added root tabs, and started dosing ferts to take care of this nitrogen deficiency.
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looks really nice , everything has come along really well. I still don't see any cichlids ;)
 
Yeah, lots of room for a ton of fry! lol, you might be sorry...do you want a low maintenance tank? Then also get something that will eat some (most?) of the babies...it's only fun for a while but can get old.
 
That's why I wanted shrimp. The system could hold lots of offspring and they would eat algae. If I go to something else that is going to fill the tank with babies, they will eat algae too, like mollies.
 
I went through and trimmed the leaves that were suffering from deficiencies and melting/rotting, trimmed the moss back to remove the entangled algae. I had not been detecting nitrates in this tank, so I also dosed KNO3 to 10 PPM. Nitrate test said 10 PPM soon after. Now a few days later my nitrates are climbing and I am getting near 20 PPM. Looks like I fixed the problem, but did too much at once so I don't know what worked, LOL. Good thing that I have had more than a decade of college to teach me how to design experiments. o_O Oh well, time to turn on the drip line.
 
Quick update. My neons seemed to have white spots on their find, but 2 ten day cycles did nothing but stress the fish and deplete the oxygen in the water. After the second cycle, I noticed some new fuzzy growths on some of their mouths, which I took to be a fungus. I also noticed 2 neons looking pretty beat up on their sides and took it to be the same thing. Treated for ten days with pimafix at half dosing because of the Corys. When I saw no change I treated for another ten days with full doses of both pimafix and melafix. The only thing that changed was that my tank now smelled like a damn dirty hippy. It is strange that the hatchetfish and more sensitive Corys have been unaffected. For now I am chalking it up to a neon specific disease. It is also worth noting that it appears (as far as I can tell) that it is the same fish that are affected, and it doesn't appear that any disease is spreading through the population.

More fun. To update is that adding root tabs, micros and nitrate as needed has caused my plants to take off. Also have been dosing excel. Vals are exploding, Crypts are going nuts, and my rotala has doubled in size in the last 2 weeks. In that same time frame, I have a Val that has went from 2 inches to over a foot. An 18 inch Val is now running horizontally over a foot in my 24 inch tall tank.

I have decided that the front of the tank is too cluttered, so I began moving the moss off of the protruding branches and to the back bottom empty spaces. I liked some growth there, but don't want bushes. Would fissidens do alright in a low tech, medium light setup?

Edit: Also, that riccia is out of control.
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fissidens grows slowly for me & is all tangled up with java moss :(

Could your neons have columnaris? It can look like fungus but is bacterial. There's both a chronic & fast killing versions.

Do the fin spots look like tiny cauliflower shapes? It could be lymphocystis, a virus, not treatable but often not fatal.
 
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