
Rotala indica grew very well and had already reached to the water surface. By contraries, Rotala macrandra green and Anubias showed the symptom that a part of their leaves started melting away.

Another set of filter system with NA Carbon was added for absorbing residual insecticide on Cryptocoryne. To use NA Carbon as a sole filter media during the initial set-up period is usually recommended.

Due to the effect of insecticide residue of the plants, Caridina japonica has not been actively removing the algae. Here we changed water frequently, and prevented the further algae growth.

The water condition got stabilized as the residual insecticide had been removed. Plants started growing quickly.