The Oto Journal

Update 19-May-2010

Came home today and found the Cocama tank cloudy. Interesting. Not sure if it was/is the sweet potato or not. The other tanks with the sweet potato though aren't cloudy. Hmmmm......I originally took it out but then I put it back in for now. I'm finding that it disentigrates easily. May not use it much after seeing this.

20% water change. Found the filter was pretty well clogged up too. Had to do a cleaning on it as well....brush out the tubes and squeeze out the sponge.

I went ahead and started working on the scape a bit early.

Going to be pulling out alot of plants from some tanks. Just have way too many C. Wendtii and Pontederiifolia.
 
Hmmmm...maybe...there was just a small piece of the button left. I did vac it out during the water change. Still looked a bit on the cloudy side this morning when I dosed the ferts (lights off). We'll see how it is this afternoon.
 
James what is the new powder based food you are trying?
 
It was the feed that Cellodaisy has.
 
I started doing major rescaping. I'm starting with the holding tank. Pulled out several crypts, small sags and others. Still will be difficult to work with as I will be keeping the huge java fern in there. So I'll work around that. I kept one wendtii and (3) small pontederiifolia. Will be keeping 4-5 of the larger Dwarf Sags, few stems of Bacopa Monneri and L. Repens x. Arcuata. Might do some other things as I go...we'll see.

Over in the Cocama tank, it is clearing up. I doubt it was the SP that caused the cloudiness. I moved it over to another tank and it is fine. I believe it to be the remnants of the new food I was trying out. Now granted it was in the tank for quite a few days so it does make sense.

Fresh zucchini added to all tanks.
 
Over in the Cocama tank, it is clearing up. I doubt it was the SP that caused the cloudiness. I moved it over to another tank and it is fine. I believe it to be the remnants of the new food I was trying out. Now granted it was in the tank for quite a few days so it does make sense.

Well, I guess you found the limits of its staying power. I'm sure it depends some on water temperature, pH, etc., but any way you slice it, a few days is a lot better than the 25 minutes I observed with a gelatin-based version. :)
 
Quick question, what are the parameter of your tanks?? the one w/ otos that breed happily in there.

Last readings were as follows:
Temp: 76
PH: 7.4
NO3: 20
NH3: 0
NO2: 0
KH: 4
GH: 7
TDS: 105

Been a little laxed on posting my test results. I'll get back in the habit of doing so.
 
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