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Riccia bad???
About 2 weeks ago an SAE jumped from my 50 gal tall and I grabbed it and
put it back in. Two days later another? SAE jumped and was not found so
quickly and died on the carpet. I wondered what had made them jump but
just tightened up security.
Meanwhile I had begun to grow a fairly thick riccia carpet on the surface
of the tank.
I left for a 8 day vacation and came back to find another SAE dead. Diana
told me the SAEs had been acting weird generally. The dead one was nose
down at the gravel. Later that PM I saw another SAE nose down (but
apparently alive and heathy). Meanwhile I noticed the heavy luxuriant
riccia growth had continued.
Today I saw two SAEs looking sickly, and the riccia was even more
blanketing the surface. Finally drawing the obvious conclusion, I removed
8 oz of riccia from the surface, returning normal light to the plants.
It is a little too early to draw conclusions, but if the SAEs recover, I
would guess that the riccia was trapping the incoming light and generating
oxygen near the surface, rendering the lower layers relatively oxygen poor,
which I would bet the SAEs would hate.
Anyone have any contributions to this evolving tale????
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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco gomberg at wcf dot com
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