Hi, this is FishyBean; I need some help on what to do. I never checked the water parameters because it was just a piece of wood soaking and the tank was in ambient room lighting 90% of the time.
I have a 36-gal bow front that only have a large piece of driftwood that was soaking to remove some of the tannin and a few pieces of hornwort, 2 potted sag grass and one anubis plant, pest snails (not many and about 6 sherry shrimp. The tank sat for months and the water, of course was extremely brown and had a brownish-black sludge forming on the bottom. I feed occasionally with algae tablets and sinking pellets. When I decided to change the water, I noticed some little creatures swimming on the front of the glass, after changing 80% of the volume, there were still some in the water. So, after settling a few days I lost he shrimp, and the creatures were back in all their glory. I gave some to my pygmy cory's and they went nuts over the fresh food, quickly gobbling it down. So, I added every two days to their tank.
I began reading about the types of things that will grow in the aquarium and assumed they were molina or daphnia. As the tank became filled with these little creatures, I decided to make the mixture of yeast and spirulina shown on several YouTube videos. The volume started declining so I must be feeding the wrong thing since the population flourished without do anything. Now the population is down to almost nothing. I also had to move two albino corydoras to the 36-gal tank to help clean it up.
I cannot get a good video to attach because the creatures are so tiny and my phone is an old model android.
I have a 36-gal bow front that only have a large piece of driftwood that was soaking to remove some of the tannin and a few pieces of hornwort, 2 potted sag grass and one anubis plant, pest snails (not many and about 6 sherry shrimp. The tank sat for months and the water, of course was extremely brown and had a brownish-black sludge forming on the bottom. I feed occasionally with algae tablets and sinking pellets. When I decided to change the water, I noticed some little creatures swimming on the front of the glass, after changing 80% of the volume, there were still some in the water. So, after settling a few days I lost he shrimp, and the creatures were back in all their glory. I gave some to my pygmy cory's and they went nuts over the fresh food, quickly gobbling it down. So, I added every two days to their tank.
I began reading about the types of things that will grow in the aquarium and assumed they were molina or daphnia. As the tank became filled with these little creatures, I decided to make the mixture of yeast and spirulina shown on several YouTube videos. The volume started declining so I must be feeding the wrong thing since the population flourished without do anything. Now the population is down to almost nothing. I also had to move two albino corydoras to the 36-gal tank to help clean it up.
I cannot get a good video to attach because the creatures are so tiny and my phone is an old model android.
