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The plants in my tank seem to either be having holes in them, turning yellow and/or disintegrating all of a sudden. I was trying to run it without anything but need to act before they all just turn to mush or disappear.

Even the Anubias which is hardy and has been fine for over a year is having similar issues in certain leaves.

Can anyone recommend some fetiliser and liquid carbon?

Thank you.
 
It’s not a carbon issue, there simply starving due to a lack of fertiliser.

Pretty much any of them are fine, anything is better than nothing. I just tend buy what ever is the best value at the time. TNC, tropica, easy, seachem, evolution aqua are all fine.
 
Anubias grows best when planted on driftwood I think and it needs to be out of the light as it's a shade plant.

Also stick to low or medium lighting in general unless you add Co2.
 
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Nasher said:
Anubias grows best when planted on driftwood I think and it needs to be out of the light as it's a shade plant.

Also stick to low or medium lighting in general unless you add Co2.
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It doesn’t need to be kept out of the light, if you do enough water changes and feed it enough fertiliser, you will avoid algae growth in it. The more light you give it the quicker and more compact it grows, likewise it will grow with next to no light really slowly.

Holes on leaves is specifically a nutrient deficiency, I think it’s potassium but don’t quote me on that. Yellowing I think is a nitrogen deficiency. Any full spectrum fertiliser (that contains NPK) designed for aquariums will do the job. Just don’t use regular plant food as that normally contains ammonia as the source of nitrogen.
 
Migrated everything to my new, much bigger tank.

I didn't think my cherry shrimp were breeding anymore, until I lifted up a coconut shell and a swarm of them came out. I haven't even been feeding them :D
 
Just started out in the world of tropical fish... My neighbour gave us a 40L tank as he had no need for it... almost £100 later we had the heater/filter and god knows what else ready and set up.

Once everything was up and running we left it for a week to settle. We took our daughter to our local Aquatics Centre and found some easy starter fish... Little lady picked out 2 Mollys and 2 Platties.

We decided we wanted to add a bottom feeder to the setup so went looking for a Pleco... ended up coming home with a Black Red Tailed Shark... go figure.
 
Mollies get quite big btw and they may kill the platies as they are territorial. They also both breed like crazy :D

Plecos get massive unless its one of the dwarf ones. Even those will get 4-5" though.

Better with small schooling fish in small tanks. Like rasboras or tetras. Then a few corydoras on the bottom.
 
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You need a bigger Tank
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Nasher said:
Mollies get quite big btw and they may kill the platies as they are territorial. They also both breed like crazy :D

Plecos get massive unless its one of the dwarf ones. Even those will get 4-5" though.

Better with small schooling fish in small tanks. Like rasboras or tetras. Then a few corydoras on the bottom.
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Long Story short...

When my Brother in Law split with his ex and moved into a smaller place, He loaned his 120L tank to my Father in Law. My FiL has now bought a JUWEL Trigon 350 and is currently in the process of setting it up and getting the water ready to receive the fish from the smaller tank.

We have now decided to upgrade ours to the 120L Tank to accommodation the slightly larger fish. Although we will have to wait a few weeks before the FiL has transferred the fish from one tank to the other. Once we have it in hand its going to need some work cleaning it up as its had some serious algae issues over the last year or so. Also the filter either needs replacing or a damn good cleaning/stripping and repairing. Its safe to say it'll be a few weeks before we are ready to swap things about.
 
ddoubleep said:
The plants in my tank seem to either be having holes in them, turning yellow and/or disintegrating all of a sudden. I was trying to run it without anything but need to act before they all just turn to mush or disappear.

Even the Anubias which is hardy and has been fine for over a year is having similar issues in certain leaves.

Can anyone recommend some fetiliser and liquid carbon?

Thank you.
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As others have said looks like all the nutrients have run out in the tank.

I use Seachem Flourish tablets which are great. Well worth the money.
I also douse with KB Aquatic Plant food but I dont rate it at all but the for cost its worth grabbing to see if it helps I guess.

Your also probably better riping everything out and replanting, otherwise your going to end up with a lot of dead matter in the tank thats just going to make matters even worse.
 
Noakesy85 said:
We decided we wanted to add a bottom feeder to the setup so went looking for a Pleco... ended up coming home with a Black Red Tailed Shark... go figure.
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40l is way to small for the shark, and they can become rather grumpy! And with molllies/platies breeding like rabbits, your gonna need one sooner than you may thing :D

Edit - sorry just saw your newer post
 
Looking at the shark, they get pretty big too. 120L probably won't be nearly enough (people say around 300L is needed) and they are aggressive when adults.
 
They can be terrortorial little sods. I've got one in a 240l tank and it does make a nuisance of itself. Where as the one I had a few years ago just went about its business without any aggression. Hopefully yours is like that :) I wouldn't have one in a 120l though.
 
LizardKing said:
They can be terrortorial little sods. I've got one in a 240l tank and it does make a nuisance of itself. Where as the one I had a few years ago just went about its business without any aggression. Hopefully yours is like that :) I wouldn't have one in a 120l though.
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Chances are by the time this little thing gets big enough the wife will more than likely want to upgrade the 120L tank

Hopefully it's one of those that keeps to itself and doesn't irritate the others too much
 
my new 100L is very cloudy. any tips?

all seems fine otherwise. about a month old, been testing for nitrites adding fish and plants slowly enough. 25% water change weekly.
 
It depends why it’s cloudy, if it’s new substrate or been recently steered up, that should settle in a few hours.

if it looks like a milky fog, that’s a bacteria bloom. It’s normally happens when you have an ammonia or nitrite spike which is bad.

You mentioned your testing, What are your current readings for ammonia and nitrite?

If anything is over zero and you have fish in, I’d suggest changing 50% of the water ASAP.
 
I've had a 120L for just gone 4 weeks now and everything going very well.

6x cherry barbs (2xM & 4xF)
5x diamond neon tetra
3x thick lipped gourami (1xM & 2xF)

The slightly smaller of my 2xF gourami is acting odd for the past 2 days now. She sits down near the bottom quite a lot of the time with her fins really flat to her body.
At feeding time she feeds OK and frequently see her swimming fine and acting as normal in between this.
All other fish are absolutely spot on with no issues.
My male gourami can be a bit of a **** but I wouldn't say he is overly bullying at all. The other female doesn't bother her ever. I have seen one of the male cherry barbs trying to be the big man and chasing her a few times though..... so wondering if this is bullying/stress causing her to act like that as opposed water issue.

Water was slightly cloudy up until 3 days ago and is now crystal clear. Have been testing frequently using both a proper water test kit as well as the JBL pro dips with the app. I also have seperate dips for ammonia and PH so I have been checking all of these for weeks on end from various different sources/brands of testers.

A/N/N have all always been 0.
PH has been rock solid 7.
Only measurement I have ever got below what would be good is for KH. I was about to put some bicarb in to address this but testing the other day and it had come up 1 (to 5) without PH changing at all so I am leaving it be for now and monitoring.

Sub is gravel and I have 2 large driftwood pieces in there and it's all fake plants at the minute.
Filter is a Fluval 307.
 
Multiple Gourami's in a tank are just trouble imo. Fish shops love to sell you them by the boat load, claiming is all good but honestly id wish they would just say one per tank. I find they just don't get on with each other at all in small aquarium environments.

Id maybe look at three things: Oxygen, planting and stock.

1. Agitate the water if you can with the filter outlet to bring more Oxygen in.
2. You need real plants, Dwarf water lettuce or similar water surface plants are a must for Gourami's. They are easy to look after, but cull by 1/4 each month as they replicate fast.
3. Barbs aren't the best tank mates for Gourami's unfortunately since they are known fin nippers (which sounds like its already happening), something like guppies work much better.

Tetras are chill, so they are definitely not the issue.
 
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