First Timer Planted Journey.

[MrsEspoNYC7]

Thanks so much! That really is a great compement coming from someone with a gorgeous tank like yours. I really appreciate it

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

yuk  what is this?
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fungus I think
 
its on 2 pieces not the all 4 
 
yuk

 

[Meeresstille]

I've never had problems with any of my pieces of wood, but I've read that this is not unusual and nothing to worry about. It should go away on its own!

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

So I made some changes already,
I pulled out the anacharis on the right side and replaced it with potamogeton gayi.
Also I attached some moss on the top piece of wood.
And I added a bunch of bacopa monieri next to the bacopa caroliniana.

I apologize now if I butchered any of the names. Please correct me if I did lol

Pictures to follow soon

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

Just bought a uv sterilizer... Has announce used one of these.. Do they actually work?
The amazon reviews were mostly positive and I checked on petco too which were mostly positive too.

It's called the green killing machine uv sterilizer with power head. I have a hob filter so obviously no in line ones would work

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

picture time!

 
still a bit cloudy but here is the new plants

 
and here are the black Japanese trapdoor snails I got today

 
here is one of my amano shrimp hanging out on his new buddy lol

 

[haleem8777]

The woolly,fungus thing on the wood seems to be increasing, when i had this problem i just took it of by hand

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

Yeah I woke up this morning and it grew, I was going to pull it off but my new snails are devouring it like cotton candy.

 

[Meeresstille]

Haha, that's a perfect side-benefit getting those snails then! It does look pretty yucky that fungusy stuff, hopefully they will put an end to it! Love that pic of the piggy-backing amano shrimp on the snail!

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

they are still together its actually really funny to watch. I will try to get a video 

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

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[MrsEspoNYC7]

So I got my uv sterilizer today, it's all hooked up I'm going to take a picture each day so I can see if it works, and haw fast. I made a few changes in my tank but no way am I posting pics till it clears up a bit.

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

Woah! This little uv sterilizer is really amazing. My water is looking pretty good already, it has been running since about 7 pm yesterday (about 14 hours) and I see a big difference already. I'm going to wait till its 24 hour and than take a pic.

 

[Meeresstille]

Aren't UV sterilizers used to kill pathogens? What visual effects do you see in the water? 

  

 

[MrsEspoNYC7]

Some kill pathogens in the water and they also kill free floating algae (green water) and clear up cloudy water. My water has been very cloudy since I put the wood in and it cleared up a lot since I started using the sterilizer. The one I got is only 9 watts so it probably won't kill many pathogens just the algae, they have other more powerful ones that are for canister filters (I have a hob)