whomeverwiz

Will do and report back. I’m using the ACO black airline tubing, and I did try cutting the end off, but I can’t remember if I used a totally fresh piece or a scrap. Thanks!!

I hav co-op regulators, and the diffusers they sell, have always worked fine in my first couple of tanks. The third one, however, keeps popping the airline off of the diffuser. I come home, and the line is loose in the tank. I put it back on, and it seems fine, but then it's not attached again. What gives? This tank is bigger and deeper, but I can't come up with any other meaningful differences.

No anubias, just buce... I've done big water changes like this and never had anything like that happen. I know crypts are sensitive, but I've never had a buce die on me at all, much less melt in a couple of days. Anubias? Well, they die on me, but it's the rot that does it. Never had them melt. As far as round-up toxicity goes, you can kill shrimp with it, apparently, but dicotyledons are sensitive at much, much lower doses. The pattern of which organisms died is mostly what you would expect with glyphosphate poisoning. It is considered "slightly toxic to practically non-toxic" to aquatic invertebrates. It doesn't kill moss. Apparently it kills the rhizome of ferns and prevents reproduction, but doesn't kill the vegetative growth of the fern. The dwarf hairgrass seems like it should be susceptible, though, and it didn't seem to suffer much. Are there other water parameters you would like to know aside from the ones I posted above? My tap typically is from 20-40 TDS with no detectable chlorine (and is no different today), but I know there is chlorine in there, so I still treat, of course. I keep the tank at 76, and it dropped to about 72 with the water change, and I've done that several times before and never had a problem with that. pH went down to about 6.8, also not unexpected. I know a big water change can cause issues, but it never has for me before. I can't convince myself to chalk it up to the water change just yet.

I have a 29 gallon in my office with a bunch of buce and crypts. It's home to a dozen neocaridinas, a dozen green neon tetras, and a pair of apisto agassizii. There are a couple tiny java ferns and a bit of moss as well. I use CO2 on a timer. Everything has been copacetic for about 6 months or so. I did an 80% water change last week, and stuck a few more buce/crypts and some dwarf hairgrass in there. The pH came down a bit as expected, and the water turned a bit cloudy, what looked like a bacterial bloom. I left for the weekend, and when I got back to work all of the new buce was almost gone, all of the crypts, new and old had melted, and even my old well-established buce looks like it's disintegrating. All of the shrimp and fish look fine. Also... the java fern, hairgrass, and moss look totally normal. I fertilized a touch after the change, but I'm at Nitrates 20, Nitrites 0, Hardness 75, Buffer around 100, pH 7, no chlorine. Did I get some round-up in my tank? Not sure how I would, but there is some sitting outside my building near the hose that I use to fill my water bottles and I always give it a side-eye when I go out there. Because my non-dicot plants are fine, I'm really suspicious of glyphosphate. Also just super-sad about the devastation of my plants that I loved so much. If somehow I did poison my tank, I'm terrified. I know that bottle of round-up is out there, but I never touched it at all! I think I can never use that hose again anyway.

So cool to see this...my very first tank setup last May before I knew anything about this hobby, I had 5 otocinclus macropilus.. along with a platy, 2 dwarf gouramis, and 5 green neon tetras. Within a week, we saw fry! I was unconvinced, but my 8 yo daughter was relentless. Eventually she pointed them out. After some research, I was sure that they were from the platy who was probably a pregnant female, then I thought they were eggs that came in on some plants. Now though, after recalling the way they moved just like otos, I think they may have been! I only ever saw about 2 or 3. They would flip around like crazy, and then settle down into the substrate, and were super-tiny. I always loved otos the most, and I'm inspired to try making some new ones even though I know it may take forever or never work at all. Thanks for your story!

I don't recall an odor, but my wife informs me that I have a terrible sense of smell. The first plant was rubberbanded to a rock, no glue. Other plants have been glued conservatively to rocks or wood. So far I have trimmed the rot and each plant has survived, but they are a fraction of their former size.

I just got into the hobby last summer, and the very first anubias plant I put in my tank rotted away over a few weeks. I had no idea what was going on, but I trimmed away all of the rhizome except for a tiny bit with the hopes something would survive. The miniscule portion of rhizome has grown new leaves and is coming back to life... however it's a quarter-sized plant now instead of a soda can. I have purchased new anubias of different varieties from different sellers, but none have been immune. I've done great with all the rest of my plants, but I'm worse than 50/50 with anubias. It's super frustrating because it's my favorite plant to look at!