The plants were put in there about a week and a half ago. There are Serpae tetras, Glow Light tetras, Neon tetras, and an american dwarf frog. What's wront with the plants?
2007-02-16 07:19:52 · 7 answers · asked by Kitty 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Could be they are snail eggs. Keep an eye open and see what happens.
2007-02-16 07:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by deb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they almost fuzzy, like this:
http://www.aquaticscape.com/articles/algae/bba3_tb.jpg
That's Black Beard Algae, a very tenacious and irritating algae. It is nearly impossible to scrape off. BGA comes from an excess of nutrients in the water. To start, reduce your photoperiod to about 9 hours. Be sure that you are not over feeding your fish (only feed what they can eat in 30-40 seconds, twice a day). Maintain a weekly 30% water change cleaning schedule.
You can use an eye dropper to put some hydrogen peroxide over the affected areas. This will kill the algae but you may need to remove the affected leaves.
If this does not work, then you may want to look into a DIY CO2 reactor to encourage plant growth. if the plants grow too fast, the algae will be unable to grow.
2007-02-16 07:31:49 · answer #2 · answered by Zoe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They might have some kind of a plant disease, but I'm not sure what. If the spots were brown before they were black and are maybe starting to get tiny holes in then( with some black lining around the holes themselves), they might be dehyrated or not getting enough nutrients from the soil. I guess that the roots might be tangled, too, but I'm no expert. My first guess would be 'plant disease', though.
2007-02-16 07:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely, first, you're able to continually study in the past you get new animals. That being mentioned, you probably did no longer cycle your tank. The fish could have started it biking, so now you're able to attend. provide it 4-6 weeks and it is going to be cycled. Get an entire try equipment or deliver an aquarium shop your water to objective after that element. the rationalization you're able to cycle that is because of the fact a tank's filter out is organic and organic; valuable bacteria stay on your filter out and gravel which do away with the ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites. study up on biking on line. After 4-6 weeks, in case you have 0 ppm of ammonia and nitrites and extremely few ppm of nitrates, you're able to be waiting to function fish.
2016-11-23 13:33:00 · answer #4 · answered by bleau 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zoe is right black beard or black brush algae, very hard to get rid of. The only fish that I know of to eat it is the "true siamese algae eater" good luck finding them at your local pet store. You'll probably get chinese algae eaters or flying foxes. If you can find them get one for every 5 gallons of water in your tank. You should also get phosphate remover for your filter as too much may be the cause.
2007-02-17 03:34:53 · answer #5 · answered by james 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to take your plants out of your tank and fill a big bowl with hot
tap water and soak them for about 30 minutes.
2007-02-16 07:48:24 · answer #6 · answered by aajk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats so funny thats exactly what I have in my tank (except the frog) and my live plants started getting dark spots on them too!
2007-02-16 07:26:43 · answer #7 · answered by T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋