oliverpool
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I am still having major issues with my tank. Its a 3 feet tank with LED and CO2 injection. Its been around for 1.5 years and I recently did a whole rescape. I basically siphon off perhaps half of the top soil and replaced it with new soil which I had placed in a bucket for 2 weeks in water (did some water change in the bucket every few days) I did not lose any fishes during the whole time. 4 weeks later, I started seeing yet again some issues with the plants.
Here is a picture that I am having with even plants like crypts. Looks like a some ferts difficiency? some of the leaves on the crypts are not green but almost dark yellow and you can see the veins?
I am dosing full EI for my 50G tank, Macro and micros 3 times each every other day. 50% or more water change each week. I have a Ehiem 2076 which shows it is providing around 600l/hour and I supplemented it with a Vortech MP10ES running 24x7 in lagoon mode at 65%. Plants are swaying lightly. CO2 comes on 1 hours before light and the PH drops around 0.9 when they lights starts ramping up an hour later and by the time the lights are at full intensity (40 par or so at substrate) PH is down around 1 full PH plus minus 0.1 PH. Stays that way before the CO2 goes off 1.5 hours before lights out 8 hours of photo period including ramp up and down. CO2 is via a self made cerges reactor at ehiem filter outlet. Some bubbles start to escape the reactor via the outflow in the middle of the photo period and stays that way. Plants seems to be pearling 2 hours or so into the photo period and intense pearling midway in the photo period. CO2 indicator shows light green to yellow at start of lights and goes to dark green within 2 hours of light off. I see my ph goes up to around 0.8PH around 3 hours after lights off.
In addition to plants not looking good. These are some of the issue I am still facing.
1. I have some hair? algae growing on some of my fissiden on my driftwood.
2. Slight BGA in only one area of my tank which I have been tryign to get rid of totally via KNO3 dosing directly at this area. BBA was a issue prior to the rescape but seem under control.
3. Very few dots of green spots on the glass but I attribute it to the rescape 4 weeks ago.
My water is very soft at almost 0GH and no calcium or magnisium, so I added MG to my macro dose and am now starting to add 1 teaspoon of Barr GH booster to my tank at every water change. I add one more teaspoon in the middle of the week. But in the past 2 weeks since I added MG and GH booster and increase my KNO3 and KH2PO4 another 10-15%? to be above EI for my tank, I am still not seeing improvements. Hair algae seems to be still growing only in the fissidens area and the crypts leaves that are less green are still not turning colour.
I am also seeing something strange in the area where I am have alot of ammania bonsai. I get some some big bubbles floating up every 30mins or so from the "substrate"? I tried smelling them to see if it was sulfur but there was no smell. Maybe oxygen from the roots of the ammania bonsai? IS this normal?
I cant increase my co2 without stressing some of the fishes. I have a slight ripple on the surface of the water and no oily film. No chiller so my temp stays at around 25-27 degrees whole day round. Could Temp be a issue for the fissidens not doing well? I can increase the flow more by increase the speed of the vortech but I estimate I am well in excess of the 10x flow. Both vortech and outflow are near each other pushing in the same direction. I can increase my LED lights by another 50% to get 80 Par if needed. But With all the algae issues waiting to pounce, I rather keep lights low till I solve all the issues.
Here is a picture that I am having with even plants like crypts. Looks like a some ferts difficiency? some of the leaves on the crypts are not green but almost dark yellow and you can see the veins?
I am dosing full EI for my 50G tank, Macro and micros 3 times each every other day. 50% or more water change each week. I have a Ehiem 2076 which shows it is providing around 600l/hour and I supplemented it with a Vortech MP10ES running 24x7 in lagoon mode at 65%. Plants are swaying lightly. CO2 comes on 1 hours before light and the PH drops around 0.9 when they lights starts ramping up an hour later and by the time the lights are at full intensity (40 par or so at substrate) PH is down around 1 full PH plus minus 0.1 PH. Stays that way before the CO2 goes off 1.5 hours before lights out 8 hours of photo period including ramp up and down. CO2 is via a self made cerges reactor at ehiem filter outlet. Some bubbles start to escape the reactor via the outflow in the middle of the photo period and stays that way. Plants seems to be pearling 2 hours or so into the photo period and intense pearling midway in the photo period. CO2 indicator shows light green to yellow at start of lights and goes to dark green within 2 hours of light off. I see my ph goes up to around 0.8PH around 3 hours after lights off.
In addition to plants not looking good. These are some of the issue I am still facing.
1. I have some hair? algae growing on some of my fissiden on my driftwood.
2. Slight BGA in only one area of my tank which I have been tryign to get rid of totally via KNO3 dosing directly at this area. BBA was a issue prior to the rescape but seem under control.
3. Very few dots of green spots on the glass but I attribute it to the rescape 4 weeks ago.
My water is very soft at almost 0GH and no calcium or magnisium, so I added MG to my macro dose and am now starting to add 1 teaspoon of Barr GH booster to my tank at every water change. I add one more teaspoon in the middle of the week. But in the past 2 weeks since I added MG and GH booster and increase my KNO3 and KH2PO4 another 10-15%? to be above EI for my tank, I am still not seeing improvements. Hair algae seems to be still growing only in the fissidens area and the crypts leaves that are less green are still not turning colour.
I am also seeing something strange in the area where I am have alot of ammania bonsai. I get some some big bubbles floating up every 30mins or so from the "substrate"? I tried smelling them to see if it was sulfur but there was no smell. Maybe oxygen from the roots of the ammania bonsai? IS this normal?
I cant increase my co2 without stressing some of the fishes. I have a slight ripple on the surface of the water and no oily film. No chiller so my temp stays at around 25-27 degrees whole day round. Could Temp be a issue for the fissidens not doing well? I can increase the flow more by increase the speed of the vortech but I estimate I am well in excess of the 10x flow. Both vortech and outflow are near each other pushing in the same direction. I can increase my LED lights by another 50% to get 80 Par if needed. But With all the algae issues waiting to pounce, I rather keep lights low till I solve all the issues.
