AndreiD
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Hello , my name is Andrei , i read ukaps for more than 1 year and this is my second setup , i enjoy reading a lot of things here , but i have a few questions for you guys regarding my tank
Tank has 5 months
Plants : Monte Carlo , Hygrophila Pinnatifida , rotala green , anubias nana , bucephalandra , staurogyne repens , microsorum trident
-60x30x36 tank size
-weekly 50 % water change
-Ada Amazonia and power sand
-Ada Aquasky 601
-Eheim 2071 with substrat pro
-6 hours of lighting
-CO2 3 bps with tropica 3-1 diffuser , drop checker is yellow and MC starts pearling aprox 1 hour after lights go on . CO2 starts 3 hours before light and shuts off half hour before lights go off
-I dose macros each other day , stopped dosing micros because I had 0.4-0.5 ppm Fe , now I have aprox 0.1 ppm just with tap water , for micros I used chelated trace ,
-Easy Carbo – 2 ml each day
-Kh 3
-Ph around 6,5
-I dose (according to http://www.theaquatools.com/fertilization-calculator )
KNO3 : 16 ppm each other day
KH2PO4 : 3 ppm each other day , if I dose less I get GSA
K2SO4 : I got enough from KNO3 and KH2PO4 but I dose 5 ppm extra each other day , I had a few holes in H Pinnatifida leaves
MGSO4 : 10 ppm each other day
I also tried to add more CO2 but I can’t , fish are at water surface , gasping for air . I spot treated BBA with Easy Carbo , it works but it gets back after a few weeks.
BBA I have on wood and on slow growing plants like anubias and bucephalandra , also on some staurogyne leaves and microsorum
My issues are BBA and some small spots of cyanobacteria , also staurogyne not growing properly , MC and staurogyne are getting transparent leaves , like glass , then leaves falling of rooting and dying , this last issue is driving me crazy because I can’t get stauro growing up properly L and this is not a hard plant. Rotala , pinnatifida and microsorum grow are ok , stauro and MC are my problems , those transparent leaves (glassy) are driving me crazy
Should I dose more NO3 ? according to nutrients imbalance ? if I dose 3 ppm of PO4 should I dose till I get to 45 ppm of NO3 ?
Is this imbalance helping BBA to grow ?
Or I’m doing something else wrong ?
Is 0.5 ppm of Fe helping the growth of BBA ?
I also asked others opinion about this transparent leaves thing and I got a response like could be a toxicity of micros , but I’m not 100 % convinced about it
And some pictures with tank , stauro getting transparent (glassy) and dosing
Thanks
Tank has 5 months
Plants : Monte Carlo , Hygrophila Pinnatifida , rotala green , anubias nana , bucephalandra , staurogyne repens , microsorum trident
-60x30x36 tank size
-weekly 50 % water change
-Ada Amazonia and power sand
-Ada Aquasky 601
-Eheim 2071 with substrat pro
-6 hours of lighting
-CO2 3 bps with tropica 3-1 diffuser , drop checker is yellow and MC starts pearling aprox 1 hour after lights go on . CO2 starts 3 hours before light and shuts off half hour before lights go off
-I dose macros each other day , stopped dosing micros because I had 0.4-0.5 ppm Fe , now I have aprox 0.1 ppm just with tap water , for micros I used chelated trace ,
-Easy Carbo – 2 ml each day
-Kh 3
-Ph around 6,5
-I dose (according to http://www.theaquatools.com/fertilization-calculator )
KNO3 : 16 ppm each other day
KH2PO4 : 3 ppm each other day , if I dose less I get GSA
K2SO4 : I got enough from KNO3 and KH2PO4 but I dose 5 ppm extra each other day , I had a few holes in H Pinnatifida leaves
MGSO4 : 10 ppm each other day
I also tried to add more CO2 but I can’t , fish are at water surface , gasping for air . I spot treated BBA with Easy Carbo , it works but it gets back after a few weeks.
BBA I have on wood and on slow growing plants like anubias and bucephalandra , also on some staurogyne leaves and microsorum
My issues are BBA and some small spots of cyanobacteria , also staurogyne not growing properly , MC and staurogyne are getting transparent leaves , like glass , then leaves falling of rooting and dying , this last issue is driving me crazy because I can’t get stauro growing up properly L and this is not a hard plant. Rotala , pinnatifida and microsorum grow are ok , stauro and MC are my problems , those transparent leaves (glassy) are driving me crazy
Should I dose more NO3 ? according to nutrients imbalance ? if I dose 3 ppm of PO4 should I dose till I get to 45 ppm of NO3 ?
Is this imbalance helping BBA to grow ?
Or I’m doing something else wrong ?
Is 0.5 ppm of Fe helping the growth of BBA ?
I also asked others opinion about this transparent leaves thing and I got a response like could be a toxicity of micros , but I’m not 100 % convinced about it
And some pictures with tank , stauro getting transparent (glassy) and dosing
Thanks