So, Minor setback.
The Vacation curse strikes.
I took some time and drove down to Mexico for a few weeks and did the remote private beach house things to gtf away from the craziness going on here in the US ( not talking COVID either )
I had a friend staying at my house for the time that I was gone. I explained everything pretty well I thought. Anyways. My Red Sword plants came while I was away, but I explained to him how to rinse and plant them and so forth.
I didnt explain that he would have to unwrap the roots however in whatever they came packaged in, which of course varies from plant to plant.
Anyways. he planted them as is. I'm not even sure wtf this crap they wrapped the roots in was. But I came home to these massive blobs of dead plant wreckage and general scum clinging to crap around the tank, 1 missing bala shark, and a 2 missing guppies. I still cant find them. I suspect they were food. Not really sure what or why they died though. So that will forever be a mystery I suppose.
For some reason I dont really understand either, he turned off my micro dosers that feed the water conditioner and plant food. No idea when though. So my water auto change system was pumping 3 gal in / out a day for an unknown period of time without feeding the plants / conditioning the water. I suspect it was rather near the beginning because the plants that I left in it when I left ( some star grass, and a couple others ) all look really bad. almost dead in fact.
So, i double dosed the water conditioner and plant food.
Water tests all look good though still, so have to back track and replace a few plants maybe if they cant pull through. I think a couple are goners for sure though, and fish sadly. But Nothing to bad and not very expensive to fix / replace the lost plants / fish.
