In those exciting early days of the botanical method aquarium, it’s not uncommon to encounter cloudy water, or massive growth of fungal filaments or biofilm on your leaves, botanicals, and wood. It’s so contradictory to everything we’ve been told is “normal”, “safe”, and “acceptable” in aquariums. Yet, this time- and the actions that we DON’T take to “correct” these things- will have profound impact on the success of our botanical method aquarium…