I did a 13% water change (2 gallons of 15)

Pulled off a dead mushy leaf from the banana plant and turkey baster vaccumed the floor/gravel..

Never di locate the other ghost shrimp but believe he died and something similiar to him was in the back of the filter, so I dumped the filter tank water into the toilet.

someon suggested that the plants may be adding to the bacteria load. Could this be possible? I thought the plants helped to keep the load under control?

Will post test results again in about an hour.