Occasionally i’d change 50% of the water once every 2 weeks and take out all the driftwoods and soak them in tap water, then vacuum the debris from the gravel. Is this okay?
Don't wash anything in tap water, always in a bucket of tank water. There is chlorine in tap water that will kill all the good stuff on the things you wash.
I see.. but can i do it on purpose if i want to eliminate the algae thats sticking on my driftwood? Or is it just fine to brush them in the tank water? I mean, will the algae come back faster?
Just brush it.
Nice set!
That's a really cool-looking tank. Happy fish!Hello guys, if you have a blackwater fishtank, you can share it here, the more detail the better! Also if there’s any question, I think we can discuss together with other members as well. Starting from me, thank you!
Nice setup man! It’s hard to find such good branches here. My tank used to be heavily planted also, but once there were “green caterpillars”, they ate up all my plant so I got rid of them all!
Yea i bet a very few people know about this. This doesnt sound familiar at all. But yeah, those parasites are ruining the entire tank. Theyre about 1 cm in size and have those “hairs” on the entire body, just like the caterpillars youll find on non-aquatic plants. It still confuses me until today, how they look pretty much like a regular caterpillar but they live in a fish tank.
Can you get a picture? Sounds like some sort of insect larva.
Cool tank! Mine has some algae that spreads like wildfire too, they dwell on the amazon frogbit’s roots.. Btw how do you get different light colors?These are some images of my blackwater aquarium over the months
I might add more images later but right now the only plants I have are floaters because I had to get rid of all bottom plants because a piece of moss from one of my driftwood pieces started spreading like wildfire.
On the plus side it somehow manages to still look natural because of the vast amount of salvinia floating plants in there along with all the driftwood and rocks.
The way I achieve these colours is by using a light dimmer where I can adjust the lighting settings , I also put several bags of roibos tea in there and I typically use 4-5 of them to mimic the appearance of a blackwater river in the the Rio negro.
