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Omg. The Monte Carlo are bright green but I also realized they are turning brownish/black like they were burnt. Do they have too much light? Lighting period is about 10 hours.drop checker yellow lime. Attached some pics.
In my office 9L shrimp tank, i am using EC18. It is very good, strong enough to have algae too, haha.
Omg. The Monte Carlo are bright green but I also realized they are turning brownish/black like they were burnt. Do they have too much light? Lighting period is about 10 hours.drop checker yellow lime. Attached some pics.
Last edited by gumball; 7th May 2015 at 21:55.
Unlikely its due to too much light.Originally Posted by gumball
Since the plants were just recently added, those brownish melting leaves are part of the transition process, the older weaker leaves will die off, while new healthy green leaves grow out to replace them.
If possible, try to trim and pick out the brown melting leaves, it'll help to reduce the rotting leaves contributing to organic waste production.
Hmm the larger ones I understand. Some smaller buds are brown too and that got me worried. They've been in my tank since 25 April. Which is about 2 weeks. I thought they'll have finished melting by then. Lol.
Thats true... 2 weeks should be enough time for them to transition. Maybe increase your Co2 injection and dose some more ferts, they may need the extra boost for growth.
Hmm. Okay let me increase dosage of seachem flourish to daily and see how it goes. I've changed the lighting to 9hrs with a 1hr rest period in between. Also increased co2.
OK plants seem to be growing fine now. Maybe they were adjusting to the new brighter light. Now I have algae on my growing MC. Should I just leave them there? Seems like long stringy stuff on the leaves.
Best to manually remove as much of the filamentous algae as you can, don't allow them to estabish and overtake the MC.
If your tank is cycled, add in a team of hardworking shrimps to help consume and clear the algae.
Manually remove? that's gonna be tough without uprooting. I was searching for shrimps. The recommended ones are amano shrimps? what do you think. I've got some gravel looking like marimba balls already.
Yeah, manual removal is quite tricky with smaller plants.
Amano shrimps are great algae eaters, but their larger size and strength tend to result in uprooted plants, especially small carpet plants that are still in the midst of establishing in a tank.
The less "destructive" alternatives are to use cherry or malayan shrimps instead, they also do the same algae eating job but are much smaller in size, so less ability to uproot the plants. To compensate for their smaller size and appetite, just stock more of them. Its all about teamwork.
Thats why those bulk bags of cherry and malayan shrimps are so popular... everyone is always looking to enlist the acclaimed "army of shrimps" to help clean algae off their plants.
Malaysian shrimp?Hhaven't heard of them before. Had a few fire reds but they didn't quite last. Perhaps due to the flourish i've been dosing. Alright will go look for some malayan shrimps. Thanks UA!
Their body is almost transparent type.
You need a army of them to get the job done due to the size and how much /fast one can eat.
Couldn't get Malayan shrimp so I got an army of CRS lol
Army of CRS? Your "defence budget" must be quite high.
Last edited by Urban Aquaria; 14th May 2015 at 19:52.
Haha only 20 CRS from c328. Still costs less than 1 pot of Tropica Monte Carlo which I'm trying to save from the algae now. I saw Yamato and some others that I think are for feeding I think. But they looked quite big so I went with CRS. Just did a 50 % water change too. Acclimatizing the shrimps now and will chuck them in later.
20 x CRS for less than S$14? Confirm those are CRS (aka crystal red shrimps)? Seems unusually cheap, haven't seen such good deals so far.
Oops sorry they're cherry red shrimps. Hehehe. My bad!
Haha... i sort of guessed it too, those abbreviations do get abit mixed up sometimes.
Yeah, the cherry shrimp packs at C328 contain shrimps with nice sakura-grade coloration, quite good deals. They definitely look much nicer than the lower-grade transparent cherry shrimps that are packed in the bulk bags.
Okay just threw the shrimps in, how disappointing, they don't seem very hungry. Doesn't look like they're eating the algae. Where can I get malayan shrimps?
They need some time to adapt the environment. Provided your water parameter must be good.
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