fishgirl

in my 10gl Planted tank my 2 Otos are MIA or Dead no bodies found for the past week.
Water is pH 7.3, Ammo 0, nitrIte 0, nitrAte <5.
PWC every 7/10 days

My Platies and Gourami ALL seem to have constipation, I have cut down feedings to once a day. And every 2 or 3 days giving peas, zucchini/cucumber.
bio-load is fine. I have 1 ghost shrimp, and it is not able to keep up with the algae.
I have BOTH HOB AND UNDERGRAVEL FILTERS so I have not been vacuuming as I dont want to remove the good stuff from the gravel.


Will blacking out the tank for 3 days be ok will it hurt the shrimp?
After the 3 days should I do vucuuming of the gravel? how can I do that with out disturbing to good stuff and having the tank go in to mini cycle?

Susan

Chief_waterchanger

Blacking out the tank should not hurt the ghost shrimp.

If you vac only have the substrate per waterchange it should not throw you into a mini-cycle. Just pick a half-way point and vac on one side then the next week vac the other.

Hope that helps.

fishgirl

Thanks for the info Chief