Hydra also I have to treat. It really likes my fry.Any other fish seem to recover from most things with good diet and lots of water changes, and they seem to be healthier and stronger if raised in a tank with healthy plants. So most of my killies are in planted tanks and get regular changes with chemical free aged water, and I have no problems ever with 90% of my fish. Needless to say I did not send any Nothobranchius killies to the meeting and will not be keeping them again in the future, except for any offspring from the species that never got sick in the first place.
Sometimes fishkeeping is less fun that it is at other times. Kate throatwarbler mangrove wrote:
It could be the meds. In my opinion, medicating fish rarely works. Sounds like a combo of the rising salt and the nasties from 'formalin' did in the plant, that's not that surprising esp. salt levels. Also, nothobranchius killies are no less hardy than any other fish - I'm sure there's more to it than the type of fish. But, I expect we'll hear plenty about killies tomorrow night. --- Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com> wrote:It was the mother plant for a bunch of them, It wasdoing fine for probably a year in my tanks, and the person I got the original cutting from had hers a year. That is what is so frustrating. Grew beautifully and madly for so long and then bam, it's rotting, and it's doing so in tanks at different temps with different light, CO2, and stocking levels that aren't even in the same room. Granted I let the CO2 and fertilizer slide lately due to migraines followed by surgery but still, it grew great before I started using CO2 and fertilizer. That additional salt theory sounds kind of plausible though, and maybe I medicated and forgot about it. I was using meds for hydra, now that I recall, that would be formaldehyde with copper, neither is good for plants is it? Stupid hydra. At least that's gone for now. Now have flubendazole for fighting hydra, anyone know if that is bad for plants?Thanks, Kate throatwarbler mangrove wrote:FWIW, I could never get this plant to establish inmyold fishroom. My water was very hard (so, anubias, african cichlids and mexican livebearers loved it). Was this an attempt to start the plant or was it established? I think I have seen bolbitis grown outofwater and sold to the aquatic trade (much likethoselittle pine-tree plants). Plants started this way generally have a hard time establishing themselves when submerged. Matt --- "Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@Boeing.com> wrote:Hi Kate, Have you treated your water for any type ofdiseasesof late? I treated my tank for parasites awhile back and had a similar issue with my java fern. I was using formaldahyde and found my plants did not appreciate that at all. The leaves turned black slowly and then broke loose of the main root and floated away. Just a thought. And, I do not think that this is Off Topic for this list at all. In fact, I think this is a great item for the list. Clay -----Original Message----- From: June Olberding [mailto:jdolb1@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 9:29 AM To: gsas-member@thekrib.com Subject: Re: bolbitis heudelotii (plant) problem Hi Kate, I haven't had much experience with bolbitis. Iknowit doesn't seem to like really high light environments. I know you arenotrunning high light tanks. You keep most of your water pretty soft. I don't know if that may be a problem. Mine is in a livebearer tank with KH of 4-5 and GH of 5-10. It does well in that environment which has about 2 watts /gal of shop light. It took a long time to establish and occasionallywillhave a section go black and fall away. Thought that to be normal or that I had damaged leaf working in tank. This may be inaccurate but I think it doesn't like to be disturbed or moved to new locations. AFA nutrients, I do run my tanks rather rich. Also you might try running a little DIY CO2 forit.Generally folks don't think of CO2 need in low light plant tanks, buthasbeen my experience that adding CO2 did more than anything else, with the exception of Flourite substrate, to boost plant health in lower light environment. Re: OT. I would say definitely. Regards JuneHi, I am having a problem with my bolbitis ferns-thestems are turning blackand rotting, then leaving the ends with theleavesfree to disconnectand drift away from the mother plant. Some leavesalso turn black.Rhizomes are attached to wood, look fine. This ishappening in multipletanks. I have been pretty bad about fertilizingand light bulbs may beold but it seems odd that such a tolerant plantwould suffer the worstfor it while rotala indica which likeslight/fertilizer survives andturns pink at the ends. Any bolbitis tips? Or dothe old leaves just dothis after a while? Seems like more than half ofthe leaves on theaffected plants are going down, so it's probablynot only the oldestleaves dying, though the new ones are ok... Othertanks have youngerbolbitis cut from the same mother plant with thesame water parameters,no problem with them. Tips? By the way, is this considered OT for this group?Maybe replies shouldbe off list... :) Kate ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mailtomajordomo@thekrib.comwith "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the=== message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/
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