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I'd like to brag about it a little, but, this weekend I am going to have rip it all up. I have a friend with a digital camera, I will see if I can borrow it and take some pics.
I have been having some problems with a few Black Phantom Tetras, I took one into the lfs and they put it under a microscope. He couldn't be sure what it was, so he took it to a friend at Oregon State Univ., I just got my answer back today, and got the bad news, they said it is a micro bacterial infection and the entire body was involved. They are telling me the tank will be a total loss, fish and plants, total sterilization. They state patholigist is working on this and they want me to bring all the fish in to the University so they can find out if it's just the one species or all in my tank. They say they don't get the chance to study something like this very often.
The 60g tank includes-
10 Black Phantoms
6 Red Phantoms
3 Lemon tetras
4 peppered cory's
2 albino cory's
1 bristlenose
3 yo-yo's
several ottos
4 SAE
several Amano Shrimp
many MTS
1 Red Ozelot Sword still flowering and has produced over 20 plantlets
1 flowering Amazon Sword
1 12" Anubias
lots of Dwarf Sag,
Many cryptocryne
Lots or very healthy cabomba, ludwiga, java moss, java fern, bacopa
Maybe I could save the flourite.
This was by far my best tank, the one I'm the most happy with. The one I wouldn't change. Now I could just about cry.
The only positive thing I can get out of this is that I wanted to turn this into an apisto tank.
My plants are going to have to go through a bleach dip at the very least, I hope that's all and I hope they can come through the sterilization process.
I was going to post this in 'the Lounge', but it's not working yet. The tank is heavily planted though so I put it in the plant forum.
I have been having some problems with a few Black Phantom Tetras, I took one into the lfs and they put it under a microscope. He couldn't be sure what it was, so he took it to a friend at Oregon State Univ., I just got my answer back today, and got the bad news, they said it is a micro bacterial infection and the entire body was involved. They are telling me the tank will be a total loss, fish and plants, total sterilization. They state patholigist is working on this and they want me to bring all the fish in to the University so they can find out if it's just the one species or all in my tank. They say they don't get the chance to study something like this very often.
The 60g tank includes-
10 Black Phantoms
6 Red Phantoms
3 Lemon tetras
4 peppered cory's
2 albino cory's
1 bristlenose
3 yo-yo's
several ottos
4 SAE
several Amano Shrimp
many MTS
1 Red Ozelot Sword still flowering and has produced over 20 plantlets
1 flowering Amazon Sword
1 12" Anubias
lots of Dwarf Sag,
Many cryptocryne
Lots or very healthy cabomba, ludwiga, java moss, java fern, bacopa
Maybe I could save the flourite.
This was by far my best tank, the one I'm the most happy with. The one I wouldn't change. Now I could just about cry.
The only positive thing I can get out of this is that I wanted to turn this into an apisto tank.
My plants are going to have to go through a bleach dip at the very least, I hope that's all and I hope they can come through the sterilization process.
I was going to post this in 'the Lounge', but it's not working yet. The tank is heavily planted though so I put it in the plant forum.