ranmasatome

If you have Otos..or SAEs you can put them in.. they eat the stuff.. but as for SAEs...don't know if you'll be able to remove them again once you introduce them..haha..
But actually many fish do nibble on it.. totally harmelss to fish.

Troy McClure

I had some Top Fin aquarium salt in a box of aquarium stuff, so I threw in a 2x dose last night, and added about a quarter cup this morning before I left for work. I'll let that work today then do a water change tomorrow and redose the salt. My reefgeek order should arrive on Monday but the reflectors still have not yet shipped, which is disappointing. On the upside, the delay will allow me to clear this up. If it's safe for fish, great, I just don't like looking at it!

ranmasatome

Thats understandable.. especially when its really ALL over your wood.. ther earlier gone, the better..

Troy McClure

The salt seems to be thinning it out. I can already see a difference. Being anxious to get some plants in here, I decided to speed up the process a bit and nuke the branches with H2O2. The bubbling has slowed a bit but about ten minutes ago it looked like the wood was in pearling overdrive!

Will the double or triple dose of aquarium salt affect any plants I put into the tank? They are going to be dipped in potassium permanganate for an hour to eliminate any snail eggs, so they will probably already be a bit weak. Even with CO2 running, will the salt concentration cause some sort of osmotic damage to the plants?

dhavoc

read that your dipping to keep snails out, but they seem to be the best along with shrimp for getting rid of the stuff quickly. they go to town on it if you dont feed anything else for a few days.

BryceM

That slime stuff goes away as quickly as it started if you just leave it alone for a while. I don't think it bothers the fish or plants at all - compared to the wild most of our setups look absolutely sterile.

Moo

haha true.
Mines been on there for about 3 months now. on and off.
I just tried adding salt the other day. It doesn't seem to be doing much. I've even been doing excel.
....mabey I'll up the co2..who knows.

Troy McClure

Mine seems to be gone for the most part...salt, H2O2 and a 50% water change. Unfortunately, I think I used too much H2O2 and it might have nuked the good bacteria in the filter because my water has that hazy white look to it. No biggie, I wasn't planning on putting fish in there for another couple of weeks anyways.

Yesterday I dipped some sunset hygro and angustifolia in a potassium permanganate solution (1/4 tsp + 1gal water) for an hour. They seem to be doing OK in the tank now and were even pearling after the water change last night. If I see any snails, I'm going to be quite upset....

Troy McClure

i spent a couple hours today snail dipping and planting. This is just an initial planting as there are still java ferns, mosses, and a few more bunches of stems that have to go in. I'm eventually going to do a riccia foreground that wraps around to the back left, but I tried dipping a test patch of riccia in the KMgO4 solution that the other plants were in....didn't turn out very well. 99% of it was this dark brown/purple color and somewhat crispy. Maybe an hour was too long. I'll try 30 minutes. Think that will work? The solution is 1gal H2O + 1/4 tsp KMgO4.




The Sunset Hygro is in there for only as a nutrient sponge. I'll be gone in a couple weeks.

redstrat

its nice to see this tank with some plants in it, finally, lol It really looks promising, I'm excited to see it fill in some. Are you still going to put your discus in this tank?