This tank(although beautiful) has been nothing but problems for me. My boyfriend and I have begun referring to it as "the tank of death." Our first bn pleco died after 5 weeks, a few weeks later, we got another one, and 5 weeks later, he kicked the bucket, and his death was followed by a massive bacterial bloom that lasted about 5 weeks. Somewhere in there 1 of the 3 julies that I ended up with died. After the second pleco died, 2 of the multies died, and the 5 olive nerite snails that I put in there to eat algae died. As a last ditch effort to control algae, I purchased about 20 cherry shrimp, which have gotten into the filter and are apparently very tasty. Throughout all of this, my water parameters have stayed nearly pristine.
No matter what I do with this tank, I can't seem to get it right. I would have no problem rehoming the remaining livestock, and I'd like to try a high tech planted bolivian ram+tetra+bn pleco tank that doesn't have such harsh water parameters(8.6 pH, etc) for fish like plecos to live in.
Thoughts, opinions, etc?
