Reverse Respiration

[Odd Duck]

On 3/8/2023 at 8:46 AM, Guppysnail said:

I did nothing to encourage the consumption. My guppies and mysteries demolish all duckweed no matter how hard I try to grow it. I switched to salvinia minima and once the duckweed was gone they started in on the salvinia. 
Neither of the would eat live algae but after RR it was like giving a kid a Halloween pumpkin fill with candy. 
The most notable was shrimp. Mine totally ignore algae. After RR there is not a spot of dead algae without a shrimp attached until it’s gone or a snail bulldozes them out of the way. 

So clearly, I need to eradicate all algae, then the duckweed and Wolffia will be fair game.  😆 

[jwcarlson]

On 3/7/2023 at 7:00 PM, jwcarlson said:

Here you go, @Guppysnail! 

The RR treated hair algae:

 

Video of RR treated hair algae... Something is moving around there, might be hard to see. Sadly it uploaded as a "short". 

Untreated hair algae... Pics washed out badly for some reason. 

Well, it sure looks like it killed all the plants again as well.  So I guess the algae is probably also dead... right? 😕

Edited March 9, 2023 by jwcarlson

[Guppysnail]

Wanted to share my excitement over here. I bought 6 potted crypts with good roots today. Then proceeded to spend an unconscionable amount of time tediously picking at the never ending tiny tufts of rock wool. I lost hands down, rock wool won. 
I dropped my new beauties in RR and 🥳 in a few hours all the menacing tiny bits of rock wool are free floating. 🤩

[Guppysnail]

On 3/15/2023 at 8:16 PM, Theplatymaster said:

@Guppysnail

the scientist part of my brain is already whirring.

was it the RR itself that took the rockwool off, or would any water would have done, with the same setup?

I’ve floated crypts with the stuck bits of rock wool for days before. When the roots are really full and tight it doesn’t come off. It was the seltzer vibration that shook that hateful stuff loose.  

 

[dasaltemelosguy]

She's probably right. Seltzer vibrates:

[DaveO]

On 3/15/2023 at 7:14 PM, Guppysnail said:

Wanted to share my excitement over here. I bought 6 potted crypts with good roots today. Then proceeded to spend an unconscionable amount of time tediously picking at the never ending tiny tufts of rock wool. I lost hands down, rock wool won. 
I dropped my new beauties in RR and 🥳 in a few hours all the menacing tiny bits of rock wool are free floating. 🤩

Awesome info. I'm going to remember this tip. Thanks Guppy, you're the greatest.

[Guppysnail]

So this morning after full RR a few pieces of Rock wool were still in the root but very loose and easily rinsed off. No longer tightly tangled but too large to escape the root tangle. Finally Guppysnail won rock wool lost. 😁

Edited March 16, 2023 by Guppysnail

[Guppysnail]

What coming home from a swap looks like 

what coming home from a swap looks like with RR 🤣

[Lennie]

On 3/25/2023 at 11:27 PM, Guppysnail said:

What coming home from a swap looks like 

what coming home from a swap looks like with RR 🤣

Can I get some red root floaters guppy?

Sharing is caring, right?

Also those are some big dwarf water lettuce in your tank! You got them big or you have a low flow?

 

Edited March 25, 2023 by Lennie

[Guppysnail]

On 3/25/2023 at 4:41 PM, Lennie said:

Can I get some red root floaters guppy?

Sharing is caring, right?

Also those are some big dwarf water lettuce in your tank! You got them big or you have a low flow?

 

I bought them that way a few days ago. I notoriously kill floaters with hard water. I’m hoping pond lettuce might survive 🤣

Edited March 25, 2023 by Guppysnail

[Lennie]

On 3/25/2023 at 11:58 PM, Guppysnail said:

I bought them tat way a few days ago. I notoriously kill floaters with hard water. I’m hoping pond lettuce might survive 🤣

Hope red roots ain't going to that tank. They would crush the smoll red roots there 🤣

Edited March 25, 2023 by Lennie

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 3/25/2023 at 9:27 PM, Guppysnail said:

What coming home from a swap looks like 

what coming home from a swap looks like with RR 🤣

Nice haul! Any fun ones? 

[Guppysnail]

On 3/25/2023 at 5:00 PM, Lennie said:

Hope red roots ain't going to that tank. They would crush the smoll red roots there 🤣

No the reds are going elsewhere 

On 3/25/2023 at 5:12 PM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Nice haul! Any fun ones? 

All of them 🤣

[Lennie]

On 3/26/2023 at 12:28 AM, Guppysnail said:

No the reds are going elsewhere 

To my tank

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

How long do you guys RR moss & floating plants?  I guess the floating plants can't be submerged huh?

On 3/25/2023 at 4:27 PM, Guppysnail said:

What coming home from a swap looks like 

what coming home from a swap looks like with RR 🤣

@Guppysnail's husband: "Here we go again. I better park myself in the living room, this is gonna be a long night. Also I can't find any utensils for my cereal" (cold food because obviously nothing is getting cooked anytime soon)

Edited March 27, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

This is what it's like at @Guppysnail's house

[Lennie]

On 3/27/2023 at 7:45 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

This is what it's like at @Guppysnail's house

Guppy with plants

Me with tanks

[Guppysnail]

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea I do full 12 on moss. Moss seems to love RR. If my moss in tanks starts looking not it’s best I RR to spruce it up. 
Floating plants I do 5 hours. I put in a Media bag and sink for an hour or two since pest snails won’t lay above water then take out of the bag and float for a few hours. 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 3/27/2023 at 12:53 PM, Guppysnail said:

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea I do full 12 on moss. Moss seems to love RR. If my moss in tanks starts looking not it’s best I RR to spruce it up. 
Floating plants I do 5 hours. I put in a Media bag and sink for an hour or two since pest snails won’t lay above water then take out of the bag and float for a few hours. 

Well I will carefully check first because guess who came from moss?

 

[Guppysnail]

NIBBLES 🥰

[Lennie]

On 3/27/2023 at 8:19 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Well I will carefully check first because guess who came from moss?

 

They look like James and Jessie from pokemon.

Now you need a catfish in the middle.

Prepare for trouble!

Make it double!

To protect the tank from devastation!

To unite all people within our species!

To denounce the evils of snoopy's poop & no-snello days!

To extend our reach to the floating plants above!

NIBBLES!  & SHRIMPY!

Team Chick-In blasts off at the speed of filter flow!

GIVE US A ZUCCHINI NOW OR PREPARE TO FIGHT!

 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 3/27/2023 at 2:40 PM, Lennie said:

They look like James and Jessie from pokemon.

Now you need a catfish in the middle.

Prepare for trouble!

Make it double!

To protect the tank from devastation!

To unite all people within our species!

To denounce the evils of snoopy's poop & no-snello days!

To extend our reach to the floating plants above!

NIBBLES!  & SHRIMPY!

Team Chick-In blasts off at the speed of filter flow!

GIVE US A ZUCCHINI NOW OR PREPARE TO FIGHT!

 

Oh noes! Here is the zucchini! It didn’t stand a chance!

[xXInkedPhoenixX]

OK y'all, advise please. I pulled this Anubias Nana out of my Medieval Tank and put it in a vat of Seltzer along with a Java fern for 12 hours last night. It looked like this as I was pulling it out of the tank: 

It's a particularly nasty hair algae in that it REALLY sticks to things- I would not be able to toothbrush this off. So this morning I pulled it out and put it in the clean water bath with an airstone. I actually left it there all day. It doesn't look a whole lot different to me AND the hair algae is still SUPER stuck on the plant. Looks like this: 

What should I do?!

[Guppysnail]

On 3/29/2023 at 1:26 AM, xXInkedPhoenixX said:

OK y'all, advise please. I pulled this Anubias Nana out of my Medieval Tank and put it in a vat of Seltzer along with a Java fern for 12 hours last night. It looked like this as I was pulling it out of the tank: 

It's a particularly nasty hair algae in that it REALLY sticks to things- I would not be able to toothbrush this off. So this morning I pulled it out and put it in the clean water bath with an airstone. I actually left it there all day. It doesn't look a whole lot different to me AND the hair algae is still SUPER stuck on the plant. Looks like this: 

What should I do?!

It might just be the photos but there looks to be a color change in the algae. That usually indicates death from what I observed. 
Algae does not normally attack healthy leaves to that extent. So I’m guessing (without a microscope photo of the actual leaf I can’t say for certain) the leaves are in declining health already. 
with RR when the heath of a leaf is already compromised it falls under the Ph pruning category and will die off. I personally would trim off the most affected leaves leaving only the healthiest and leadt affected leaves on the plant. I would/have them used my finger nail to gently scrape away what I could on the remaining leaves. 
Im I have one anubias I recently did this to. The new leaves are beginning to grow in nicely. I have a crazy busy day today but if I get a chance I will take a photo for you of the anubias I did this to. 
 

[DaveO]

On 3/29/2023 at 12:26 AM, xXInkedPhoenixX said:

OK y'all, advise please. I pulled this Anubias Nana out of my Medieval Tank and put it in a vat of Seltzer along with a Java fern for 12 hours last night. It looked like this as I was pulling it out of the tank: 

It's a particularly nasty hair algae in that it REALLY sticks to things- I would not be able to toothbrush this off. So this morning I pulled it out and put it in the clean water bath with an airstone. I actually left it there all day. It doesn't look a whole lot different to me AND the hair algae is still SUPER stuck on the plant. Looks like this: 

What should I do?!

Back in November I RR'd a Java fern infested with black beard algae. I treated it for 12 hours then  put it back in the tank. The algae was only half gone. Unsatisfied, I retreated it again, one month later. This time for 16 hours. That did the trick. Here's  the fern three months later.