Soilwork
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- 22 Nov 2015
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Hello, I know this may sound a bit strange and I have been lurking around here long enough to know what I am about to say may seem a little proposterious but I have to ask.
Last year I was dosing easy carbo and dry ferts both macro and micro. I was having a problem where I was losing a harlequin Rasbora each week. I was new to dosing at the time and blamed it on the easycarbo. I stopped dosing altogether and went low tech. after a good spell with low tech (soil and fish food) the plants wanted couldn't survive in the low tech environment so I began to add easy carbo again. Everything was great, I switched to 50% water changes, added activated carbon to the filter and cleaned up my act. Plants growth took off. The problem was that because I had upgraded to t5ho from t8s and supplemented carbon I started to get GSA on every leaf of nearly every plant. So I took a reading of phosphate and nitrate (yeah I know test kits stink) and confirmed multiple times that I had none of either. This made sense to me so I began to add EI macros courtesy of the aquarium plant food help card. New leaves were healthy and remained healthy. So I continued to do this and all was great but last week I decided to throw some micros in to the mix. Alternate days of course. Within a day after this I saw one of my perfectly healthy cardinals displaying the exact same symptoms that I had previously witnessed when I was losing my harlequins last year. The act, swim and eat normally but have very rapid breathing. Then the go in to hiding until they eventually perish. I was just wondering if it was possible their is something in the micros that could cause this? Or if I need to look elsewhere.
Thanks
CJ
Last year I was dosing easy carbo and dry ferts both macro and micro. I was having a problem where I was losing a harlequin Rasbora each week. I was new to dosing at the time and blamed it on the easycarbo. I stopped dosing altogether and went low tech. after a good spell with low tech (soil and fish food) the plants wanted couldn't survive in the low tech environment so I began to add easy carbo again. Everything was great, I switched to 50% water changes, added activated carbon to the filter and cleaned up my act. Plants growth took off. The problem was that because I had upgraded to t5ho from t8s and supplemented carbon I started to get GSA on every leaf of nearly every plant. So I took a reading of phosphate and nitrate (yeah I know test kits stink) and confirmed multiple times that I had none of either. This made sense to me so I began to add EI macros courtesy of the aquarium plant food help card. New leaves were healthy and remained healthy. So I continued to do this and all was great but last week I decided to throw some micros in to the mix. Alternate days of course. Within a day after this I saw one of my perfectly healthy cardinals displaying the exact same symptoms that I had previously witnessed when I was losing my harlequins last year. The act, swim and eat normally but have very rapid breathing. Then the go in to hiding until they eventually perish. I was just wondering if it was possible their is something in the micros that could cause this? Or if I need to look elsewhere.
Thanks
CJ