In order to counter mild outbreak of white spot among the Lionheads that started 2 weeks ago, the aquarium fan was turned off and the water temperature allowed to adjust to the daily ambient temperatures of 29 to 31 degrees. A healthy dose of aquarium salt was also added.
The good news is that the white spot is almost gone. The bad news is that the water plants took a big hit both in the increased salt content of the water, and also generally higher temperature. A number of leafs and stems decayed during the two weeks, and had to be removed when we did a major maintenance of the tank the other night. Here’s what the tank looks like now, sans a number of plants:
The filter had been worked round the clock too; the amount of detrius and decomposed material that had been caught by the filter sponge was incredible, and loosening out the dirt in a pail of water turned everything inside it brown. Scary.
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