(Last post of the year! Happy New Year!!!! I hope 2009 brings health, happiness, and security (in many
forms) to everyone.)
The other day I was researching how much salt to add to our main freshwater aquarium containing an adult Black Ghost Knife fish (1/2 teaspoon/gallon or a little less for an adult) and remembered a common mistake people new to the hobby tend to make. (Yay! Something to post!)
Common Mistakes (in no order):
- Using the wrong salt
- Adding salt to the tank the wrong way (directly to a filter or dumping in directly all at once)
- Adding too much salt after a water change
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I recently had to fight a gross (to me) problem with one of my tanks. It was a fairly new set up so it was in the final stages of cycling. I only had one cichlid (Green Terror) in this freshwater tank at the time. Over time I would notice the glass of the aquarium getting cloudy. It started with odd, puffy stuff growing on the sides and then….worms. When I looked very close at what was on the side of the glass, I noticed white lines moving. Lots of them. Some of these worms would float in the water column, though I doubt that was where they wanted to be. They covered everything. Over time they would get a little bigger. At first I thought of nematodes but the fish seemed like it was not being bothered by them and treatment for them did nothing. Also, unlike nematodes, their movement was very controlled and fairly slow. No side-to-side thrashing, even in the water column. I could just make out a head wider than the body on some of the bigger ones. Planaria. (Maybe some nematodes as well.)
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Last Update: Oct. 24, 2009. A paragraph added near the end from someone talking about his 16 year old Black Ghost Knife!
Sep. 2009. She is now around 12 inches!
Note: I do respond to comments on my old posts.
One of our favorite fish in the house is our Black Ghost Knife (BGK) named Rain. We do not know its sex but we decided to call it a “she” to be different.
