What Should I Do With My Contaminated Plants/tank

[CrazyAirborne]

ok I started a thread a couple days ago about my nano shrimp tank taking a unexplained plunge, losing 5 out of my 6 mosquito rasboras, and Ive noticed all my trumpet snails are dead too. Now Ive rehomed the one rasbora, and the 3 amano shrimp, but now I need to figure out what to do with this tank. Its got nice thick moss growth and I really want to keep it alive. i assume I should break the tank down and give it a good clean to get rid of whatever contaminated the water, but willl the plants be safe to move to my community tank? I dont want to move the contamination over with them!

this is what it looks like right now

 

[ian]

when and where did you get your plants?

 

[CrazyAirborne]

ive had the plants for a long time, the moss has been grown by me for months. the java fern would be the newest purchase, from a lfs, but i had that in the tank before the fish, and it was fine for close to 2 months. i dont know exactly what you are getting at, but Im sure that something entered the water column when I did the water change 2 days before i noticed the fish struggling for life..


heres my original thread. http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/379548-well-its-happened-to-me-now/



but the question still stands, will rinsing thoroughly be enough to safely transfer the plants will i clean the tank top to bottom?

 

[ian]

sometimes when plants are bought over from the far east, they are covered in pesticides and rubbish, i was wondering whether you'd added anything.

and yes, give the plants a run under warm water and there souldn't be a problem.

 

[CrazyAirborne]

if you are thinking the supplier used some sort of snail killer on the plants, i would imagine it would have killed the amano shrimp before effecting the fish. its weird the fish died, the snails died, but the shrimp are ok.

 

[CrazyAirborne]

oh i see you posted the same time as me. thanks for the reply

 

[swanseastilo]

What is it with Ammano shrimp a few months back i lost all my fish except a bristlenose and all my ammano shrimp survived.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Maybe the Ammano shrimp are secretly killing everything else ...

 

[swanseastilo]

Lol i thought they where delicate, Hmm murdering shrimps.