I have had this tank for around a month. Went on a holiday for a days and left it in the hands of my parents. I have a small Bristlenose Pleco in the tank who I feed every 3-4 days as per instruction with one algae wafer. Parents did everything right apart from taking the excess wafer out that the pleco doesn't eat. Came home an hour ago to some sort of tank mold, a wafer that has been in the tank for 4 days and my betta who im assuming may be stressed with water quality and hasn't eaten in 2 days. Any help in getting this tank back to normal? Fearing that most plants will die off which is looking likely.
Posted by CleanTings
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Water change and remove the wafer and the mold with a siphon. Is this a new piece of driftwood? If so it’s kinda normal, just manually remove the mold when you change the water
Is that mold on the spider wood? Thats normal with new tanks. Goes away. Not harmful l. You could do a weekly water change for about 30%, not much more because it is a new tank. You can scrub the mold of the wood and the plants first.
And one month in use? Did you use material from other filters? When setting up a new tank without priming with cycled media from other tanks I cycle it about one month/6 weeks before adding fish.
Do you have a test kit? Especially NO2 is important to know so you can check for nitrate spikes (mostly the case when food or dead fish are rotting). High spikes will kill your fish and melt your plants.
Just for now do a water change to be safe.