[quote=”helene” post=1987]
or did it get stirred up from adding the new water ?[/quote]
Yes, I think that was the case. This tank is not old and doesn’t need cleaning by now. I set it up just a few weeks ago – it’s the tank of the “mysterious paros”. I made an “experiment” with a ground with no layer but a mixture of many oak and beech leaves and dried sphagnum fibres. It’s very soft and loose, it looks nice, and I am sure the fish absolutely love it. They’re always diving under and through the leaf litter …….
The only thing is that I just recently got a scolding at the IGL-forum for having too much organic material in my nagyi-tank …… (which in their opinion was causing too many snails, which were said to haven eaten the paro-eggs. But it became apparent that there weren’t too many snails – so the deduction of having too much organic waste had no basis anymore ….But since then I am absolutely insecure about wrong or right. In every forum every expert says something different ….)