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@lefty o thanks. I might try it. I have an Amazon Sword which does well in there but other rooted plants do not. I think the sand is getting rotten.

Has anyone attempted to change substrate in an active aquarium? I have live plants but only one Chinese algae eater in this tank. Sounds crazy but I want to try a more productive substrate. In a 10 gallon I used white sand which I'm really unhappy with. If it's possible to preserve and replant the plants that I have I would be willing to try it.

@JettsPapa I lost a lot if anubias to rhizome rot. After the co op replaced 4 over time I was finally told the rot was contagious to other anubias. Didn't know. I still have two healthy anubias barterri but I decided to go with a different plant this time. @jwcarlsonthis is the first plant I received that did not look perfectly healthy.

@JettsPapa @lefty oThanks for the advice. I think these will look great in my tank. They're replacing some of my Anubias. Got frustrated with those.

I just received these cryptos and one of them didn't look very good. I'm not familiar with these plants so I'll wait and see. I put them in the tank with the pots til I'm ready to plant them.

@LennieI'm not feeding it any extra for a while to see if it improves. Thanks for the help.

@LennieYes. I made a dumb mistake. I knew it was a Chinese. Those pics you posted look just like mine. It's a lot less active now than it was before. Rests a lot. It's been very recent.

@nabokovfan87 It's been resting a lot too. Not normal.

This guy has developed a big belly. Is this normal? He's always busy roaming the tank and I feed him cucumber and green beans occasionally, but I might have been feeding him too much. I've never seen a photo of one of these with a belly like that. Thoughts?

I have two tanks. A 29 galling with the fish and plants, and a 10 gal with on Chinese algae eater and lots of plants. The water in the 20 is normal but when I change water in the 10 it has a bluish color. Any reason I should know about? I use root tabs and liquid fert and add potassium.

@Katherine I only have one snail. I haven’t fed it anything yet. There’s enough algae which should keep it busy, I think. Maybe the rhizome is the problem, I don’t know. It seemed fine to me. I have a Chinese algae eater in another tank which loves cucumber. Maybe I’ll give some to the snail.

@Andy's Fish Den it looks like a mystery snail. Just one. The rhizomes looked healthy. Nice and green and firm.

I installed two new Anubias a couple weeks ago and 3 days ago began to see leaves floating from one of them. Yesterday I noticed my snail was busy on the rhizome. It’s eating the rhizome. I never thought that would happen.

@Mmiller2001I put them in a bucket and sort of drizzled the peroxide over them from the bottle, which is 3%. @nabokovfan87they are all glued to rocks.

These Anubias had been fine until very recently. I had a lot of brown algae on them, took them out of the tank and doused them with peroxide. Could that have caused this? They’ve been in the tank too long for melting.