bachina
New Member
Hi all!
I've recently redone my 5gal corner eclipse tank, seeing how the first iteration was not very well done, and was starting to be suffocated by BGA. So I scrubbed and cleaned, and used Red Sea Flora Base (by the way, that stuff really does everything that it advertises on the bag, highly recommended!) as the substrate, and loaded up the tank right from the start with fast growers. I've got one betta and one mystery snail in the tank.
Plants in the tank:
- dwarf amazon sword
- wisteria
- lace java fern
- java fern
- mexican oak leaf
I have a 11w PC bulb in there, 6500k by All-Glass Aquarium, 5gal tropical tank at 80 degrees F. No CO2 injection, basically a standard low-tech tank.
I did this on Saturday, June 30th, and all seemed fine and well when I left on vacation on July 3rd. I come back today after just about a week, and the lower leaves leaves on the MOL seem to be going transparent and just falling off (don't worry, I had a friend feeding and filling the water). Here are some pics of the tank and the MOL that's starting to die off. Can anyone offer some suggestions as to what's going on? Everything else seems to be doing just fine in the tank.
Thanks!
--H&M
I've recently redone my 5gal corner eclipse tank, seeing how the first iteration was not very well done, and was starting to be suffocated by BGA. So I scrubbed and cleaned, and used Red Sea Flora Base (by the way, that stuff really does everything that it advertises on the bag, highly recommended!) as the substrate, and loaded up the tank right from the start with fast growers. I've got one betta and one mystery snail in the tank.
Plants in the tank:
- dwarf amazon sword
- wisteria
- lace java fern
- java fern
- mexican oak leaf
I have a 11w PC bulb in there, 6500k by All-Glass Aquarium, 5gal tropical tank at 80 degrees F. No CO2 injection, basically a standard low-tech tank.
I did this on Saturday, June 30th, and all seemed fine and well when I left on vacation on July 3rd. I come back today after just about a week, and the lower leaves leaves on the MOL seem to be going transparent and just falling off (don't worry, I had a friend feeding and filling the water). Here are some pics of the tank and the MOL that's starting to die off. Can anyone offer some suggestions as to what's going on? Everything else seems to be doing just fine in the tank.
Thanks!
--H&M
