Ich and plants

[Tl52505]

My main tank just got over ich a week, maybe 2 weeks ago, I had the temp up at 86 to kill the ich for about a week and a half until it went away, and I was wondering if it would be ok by now to move one of my Java fern plantlets over to another tank, or if I should wait longer

 

[Valkyrie_Lips]

If the ich has been successfully eradicated from the main tank the plants should be okay to move. If you want to be extra cautious you could always give the plants a little hydrogen peroxide dip before putting them in the other tank.

 

[Tl52505]

If the ich has been successfully eradicated from the main tank the plants should be okay to move. If you want to be extra cautious you could always give the plants a little hydrogen peroxide dip before putting them in the other tank.

Idk if it is eradicated from the tank, but none of the fish have any signs of having ich still

 

[Valkyrie_Lips]

Idk if it is eradicated from the tank, but none of the fish have any signs of having ich still

If you treated with heat for a 1.5 weeks and none of the fish have symptoms now then you likely eradicated it. I would personally be comfortable moving the plants if it were my tank.

 

[Tl52505]

If you treated with heat for a 1.5 weeks and none of the fish have symptoms now then you likely eradicated it. I would personally be comfortable moving the plants if it were my tank.

Ok, thanks, does it change anything that the tank is now having a severe algae problem, one of my smaller fish died to ich and I was not able to find it, and then my tank went dark green. Changed like 45% of the water earlier today and it looked a lot better, but now it already looks just as bad. Even tried algaefix which worked once when my tank got this bad but nothing seems to work

 

[Colin_T]

If the water is turning green, it is from too much light, or too many nutrients, or not enough live plants to use the light and nutrients.

Reduce the lighting time by an hour a day and see how it goes over the next 2 weeks. You can add some more live plants but rinse them under tap water before adding to the tank.

You can do bigger water changes to dilute algae and nutrients. Try doing a 75% water change and gravel cleaning the substrate. Do that every day for a week and it might get rid of it.

 

[Tl52505]

If the water is turning green, it is from too much light, or too many nutrients, or not enough live plants to use the light and nutrients.

Reduce the lighting time by an hour a day and see how it goes over the next 2 weeks. You can add some more live plants but rinse them under tap water before adding to the tank.

You can do bigger water changes to dilute algae and nutrients. Try doing a 75% water change and gravel cleaning the substrate. Do that every day for a week and it might get rid of it.

I have had the light off for about a week because of algae, and the tank is nowhere near a window, my goal is to eventually get a heavily planted tank, but I am trying to get algae and everything under control first. I currently have 2 Anubias nana in the tank, like 3 or 4 Java ferns, and some other small plants I don’t know the name of

 

[Tl52505]

If the water is turning green, it is from too much light, or too many nutrients, or not enough live plants to use the light and nutrients.

Reduce the lighting time by an hour a day and see how it goes over the next 2 weeks. You can add some more live plants but rinse them under tap water before adding to the tank.

You can do bigger water changes to dilute algae and nutrients. Try doing a 75% water change and gravel cleaning the substrate. Do that every day for a week and it might get rid of it.

Also someone told to keep with only doing water changes once a week so I don’t get rid of good bacteria, is that a risk

 

[Colin_T]

Water changes don't affect filter bacteria unless you add chlorinated water to the tank. Then the chlorine/ chloramine kills the bacteria and the fish, snails & shrimp in the tank.

If the tank has had no light for a week, the algae should be dead. Can you post a picture of the tank with the light on so we can identify the algae?

 

[Tl52505]

Water changes don't affect filter bacteria unless you add chlorinated water to the tank. Then the chlorine/ chloramine kills the bacteria and the fish, snails & shrimp in the tank.

If the tank has had no light for a week, the algae should be dead. Can you post a picture of the tank with the light on so we can identify the algae?

After doing the 75% water change the water didn’t look green anymore, just cloudy but then a couple hours later, back to this

 

[Colin_T]

Cool, green soup

The water went green due to light and nutrients and not enough plants to use it.

Adding some floating plants like Water Sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides/ cornuta) can help shade the water, use nutrients and reduce the algae. If they grow too fast, you can plant them in the gravel and they grow into lovely light green plants.