Your plants certainly seem to be coming along nicely. Hopefully, this infection will just run its course without any fatalities.
My 30 gallon open top tank jourrney
It all started with a small tank, giving me the chance of making mistakes, learning and finding out I really like it:
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Very soon I started dreaming of something bigger giving me space to more sorts of fish species and experimenting with emerse plants. So then I got my (about) 30 gallon tank, 50cm x 80cm x 30cm so wide and shallow. I wanted something wide because I really liked the idea of having some sort of island in the middle where the fish could swim around, create room for different territory's for the fish and different perspectives for me. This was how I started:
Egg crates to protect the glass from the heavy load of the rocks
![Rectangle Wood Floor Flooring Grille]()
The two elevated areas. I filled the bottom with expanded clay pebbles and put fine gravel on top.
![Wood Staple food Gas Cuisine Soil]()
First plants. As you can see the wood is all dry,in the heat of the moment (it was quite hard to get a stable pile of rocks) I forgot that it would float, oops 🙃. Luckily most pieces are stuck between the rocks...
I reused the substrate of my old tank which became a mixture of sand and dirt which I augmented with some mixture of sand and soil I bought in a LFS. I topped it of with a thin layer of sand. Not sure it this is enough to call it a dirted tank, but after my anaerobic fish killing substrate adventure I was a bit scared of using too much dirt.
![Wood Rectangle Drawer Hardwood Art]()
The result on day two, this was about five weeks ago
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All the inhabitants moved to the new tank, including my blackworms
![Water Insect Fluid Organism Wood]()
After three days it was looking a lot better already
![Water Plant Wood Organism Underwater]()
![Plant Plant community Ecoregion Natural environment Organism]()
Very soon I started dreaming of something bigger giving me space to more sorts of fish species and experimenting with emerse plants. So then I got my (about) 30 gallon tank, 50cm x 80cm x 30cm so wide and shallow. I wanted something wide because I really liked the idea of having some sort of island in the middle where the fish could swim around, create room for different territory's for the fish and different perspectives for me. This was how I started:
Egg crates to protect the glass from the heavy load of the rocks
The two elevated areas. I filled the bottom with expanded clay pebbles and put fine gravel on top.
First plants. As you can see the wood is all dry,in the heat of the moment (it was quite hard to get a stable pile of rocks) I forgot that it would float, oops 🙃. Luckily most pieces are stuck between the rocks...
I reused the substrate of my old tank which became a mixture of sand and dirt which I augmented with some mixture of sand and soil I bought in a LFS. I topped it of with a thin layer of sand. Not sure it this is enough to call it a dirted tank, but after my anaerobic fish killing substrate adventure I was a bit scared of using too much dirt.
The result on day two, this was about five weeks ago
All the inhabitants moved to the new tank, including my blackworms
After three days it was looking a lot better already
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