The Plant Tank

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Getting rid of angelfish fry

  • pH:
  • Temp:
  • KH:
  • GH:
  • NH4:
  • NO2:
  • NO3: 2.5
  • PO4: 2
  • Iron:
  • Dosing: 20 mL Excel, 10 mL Flourish, 0.6 ppm PO4, 7.5 ppm NO3 (3.75 ppm NO3 yesterday)
  • NO3:PO4 Cumulative Dosing Ratio: 71.25:4.8 = 14.8

Notes:
Finally rounded up most of the angelfish fry and got rid of them at a LFS. At least two of them are still in the tank, too quick for me to catch. I finally noticed yesterday that the CO2 levels had run down to little over 500 psi, so that that too much CO2 was bubbling into the tank because the pressure had changed. I had been wondering why the fish had been gasping, but I thought it had something to do with all the angelfish fry crowding the tank. I don't know how long the CO2 had been running out, probably at least for a week, and now I'm not sure if the extra CO2 had anything to do with the abnormal nitrate usage, versus all the extra ammonia/fish waste from the angelfish fry.

The tank is a mess, with scraggly plants and green algae growing all over the place. Yesterday, while rounding up the fry, I uprooted half the plants so that I could get at the fry, which caused a green water outbreak for a day. But it seems to have cleared up, probably due to the Excel. It will probably take several weeks to get the tank to recover. Well, I had fun raising the angelfish fry, but I'm definitely glad to get rid of them!

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