Hi all,
Wondered if some one could give some advice?
Got a medium planted tank, and most of the plants are doing ok.
Its 180l, with diy c02, with two bottles of 2l mixtures.
To be honest its crap. Not very consistent. I'm using bakers yeast. I have just ordered some champagne yeast and will give that a go, plus i have the bottles below the tank and about 3metres (tube length) away from the tank, perhaps thats why its not working properly?. Any way thats a different matter.
I also add flourish excel to it daily, as the co2 is rubbish
I dose with ferts as well, these being:
Mix1 40ml
Potassium Nitrate (KN03)
Potassium Phosphate (KH2P04)
Mix 2 40ml
trace elements.
Monday i dose mix 1 , Tuesday mix 2, and Wednesday mix 1, and so on, whilst dosing with excel.
Now, i used the chempak trace elements and they are wrong as they are not chelated. So i haven't dosed with a proper trace mix for 2 weeks, but until i realised about a week ago i dosed with the chempak stuff..
One of my plants leaves are going see through and brown yellow patches have started to form on these. The other plants seem to be ok. I dont actually know exactly what plant it is, but it looks very similar or it is an Amazon sword. I left the sponge and lead weight around the bottom of it, would this affect it?
Would not dosing with correct trace mix deprive the plant of vital nutrients enough to deteriorate like this?
My substrate is seachem flourite, about 4 inches thick and also a good spread of laterite.
I know its hard to determine what levels of ferts i should use based on what i have given you, but any recommendations? Improvements? I'm a bit thick when it comes to EI. I dont really understand it, even though i have read articles on here.
My lighting is t8, unfortunately i only have 2 30 wat bulbs, which is no way near 2wpg. The bloke in the lfs said that you can only use wpg for t5's. The tubes i have arcadia tubes, and i havent seen them in the stores for more than 30w.
Any suggestions as to why the plant maybe doing this?
Sorry for the long post!
Cheers
Simon
Wondered if some one could give some advice?
Got a medium planted tank, and most of the plants are doing ok.
Its 180l, with diy c02, with two bottles of 2l mixtures.
To be honest its crap. Not very consistent. I'm using bakers yeast. I have just ordered some champagne yeast and will give that a go, plus i have the bottles below the tank and about 3metres (tube length) away from the tank, perhaps thats why its not working properly?. Any way thats a different matter.
I also add flourish excel to it daily, as the co2 is rubbish
I dose with ferts as well, these being:
Mix1 40ml
Potassium Nitrate (KN03)
Potassium Phosphate (KH2P04)
Mix 2 40ml
trace elements.
Monday i dose mix 1 , Tuesday mix 2, and Wednesday mix 1, and so on, whilst dosing with excel.
Now, i used the chempak trace elements and they are wrong as they are not chelated. So i haven't dosed with a proper trace mix for 2 weeks, but until i realised about a week ago i dosed with the chempak stuff..
One of my plants leaves are going see through and brown yellow patches have started to form on these. The other plants seem to be ok. I dont actually know exactly what plant it is, but it looks very similar or it is an Amazon sword. I left the sponge and lead weight around the bottom of it, would this affect it?
Would not dosing with correct trace mix deprive the plant of vital nutrients enough to deteriorate like this?
My substrate is seachem flourite, about 4 inches thick and also a good spread of laterite.
I know its hard to determine what levels of ferts i should use based on what i have given you, but any recommendations? Improvements? I'm a bit thick when it comes to EI. I dont really understand it, even though i have read articles on here.
My lighting is t8, unfortunately i only have 2 30 wat bulbs, which is no way near 2wpg. The bloke in the lfs said that you can only use wpg for t5's. The tubes i have arcadia tubes, and i havent seen them in the stores for more than 30w.
Any suggestions as to why the plant maybe doing this?
Sorry for the long post!
Cheers
Simon