2014-8-12

GH 5.0
KH 3.0
Phosphates  5.0
(tap phosphates 0.25)
Nitrates 40.
Elite water change today.

2014-8-10 Levimasole added #2 treatment

Repeat treatment next Sunday. Added 3.4 gm per Dr. Sam Young.
Added Metronidazole 8.5 gm yesterday for 3rd treatment.

Phosphates still real high.  Most be coming from food bc I'm not adding any otherwise and tap water amounts are low 0.5 ppm.
Will look for phosphate adsorber: Rowa phos.  Hope it doesn't remove meds.

2014-8-6

Did about 75% water change. No added ferts in a couple of days to try to cut down on algae.  Phosphate adsorber resin added to filter 2 days ago.  Still have high phosphates 5ppm.

Nitrates 0.

Also raised pH, i.e., cut down CO2.

Glosso not growing as well.  Will add ferts now except P.

2014-8-5 Dr. Young visited fish today

Dr. Young believes it's likely that there's both ciliate infection as well as parasitic Monogenean infection based on microscopy.

Therefore dose Levimasole weekly 3.5g/90 gallons and Metronidazole at 25mg/Liter.  90 gallons=341 liters.  Therefore, 8.525 gm/90 gallons.

2014-7-18 microscopy of stringy white stool

One of classic leopards hasn't eaten much in bout 2 weeks.  Have used levimasole and lately Prazipro & Epsom's salt.  Here's some microscopy & photos of the poop.  One of the micrograph's is of a single long wom-like parasite with hooks on the end.  The other videos are of pieces of the stringy-poop with numerous other smaller organisms that have a two-pronged caudal region and a head that is difficult for me to identify.

2014-7-27

90 gal = 342 liters

Battling algae still.  It's wiped out my background plants except the Carolina Bacopa.  Also have had problems with cyanobacteria.  One of my problems is that I was overdosing EI and I haven't for the last couple of weeks.  i need to monitor nitrates and phosphates more closely.

Need to get video, jpg's to home computer of the stool.

One of the large classic leopards has had the stringy white poop.  Have used levimasole in the large and QT tank.  The leopard has not responded thus far.  Hasn't eaten much in 10-14 days.  Added Epsom's salt to help clean him out and the Prazipro today in hopes of improvement.  He still looks okay.

2014-6-25

Brandon from Elite Aquarium came yesterday.
Measured PAR with current config of 4 T5HO and 1 Kessil 6500K LED.
At plant bed PAR ranged from 200 at surface to 72 on side without the LED to 140 at bed under LED.

NO3 was high at 80.
KH50
GH 20
Phosphates 5 (0.5 in tapwater)

Will plan to drop the ferts back but the Java fern grows better with high nitrates and postassium.

Crypts doing well regardless.  Glosso and dwarf hair grass not too great for unkiown reasons and there is too much algae growth.  Background Bacopa does well but the other stem plants are doing more poorly than I've ever seen.  No idea why, unless I cut the time down too much on the background plants.