Hi all,
Posting in hopes of getting some help, as am pretty freaked out by now. This is my first aquarium (planted or otherwise) and I tried my best to do things right, but apparently something's out of whack, because within the first 3 days of setting it up (finished everything on Sunday), the plants are rapidly developing these black (or at least very dark) spots, which are quickly growing too. They appear on leaves, not around the edges. The spots are somewhat translucent and gentle rubbing will cause the affected leaf matter to dislodge from the leaf , leaving a hole.
I've first noticed it on the Anubias Nana on Monday (as a few small black spots), and by now half of one leaf has been overtaken and other spots are visible on other leaves. I've noticed these spots (just single ones for now) on my Bucephalandras (Wavy Green, my Kedagangs are too small for me to notice anything, but for now they seem rather healthy), Hygrophila Siamensis 53B seems to be afected too (here spots appear around the edges too), Windelov seems to go around the edges.. please see pictures attached for details and others too.
Now, as for the required stats:
1. Size of tank - 125L (Fluval Roma 125)
2. Filtration - Fluval U3 (slightly modded, insteads of cartridges coarse and fine pond filter foam layers sandwiched on each side; the middle media cartridge filled with the media that came with the filter + remaining space topped up with ceramic mini balls)
3. Lighting and duration - The attached bluetooth led from Fluval, 8 hrs on 60% across all channels plus an hour long sunrise and sunset, then 5% blue for a part of the night and then turned off until 'sunrise' (specs: BT Led Unit Roma 125, A13292 model, 16.5 W, 1300 lumens, 24 Vdc)
4. Substrate - Tropica substrate ca. 1.5 cm over the back half, covered with a 4 - 5 cm layer of fine silver sand (washed in water until water was clear) and topped up with just over 1kg of crushed coral for buffering as my water is very soft and I have basically no kH
5. Co2 dosing or Non-dosing - no CO2
6. Fertilisers used + Ratios - TNC Complete, dosed on startup on Sunday (as per instructions, poured in roughly 13 mL), to be used once a week (as per bottle instructions)
7. Water change regime - not changed yet. For now was planning on 30% per week
8. Plant list - Bucephalandra Kedagang, Bucephalandra Wavy Green, Anubias Nana, Hygrophila Pinnatifida, Monosolenium Tenerum, Aponogeton crispus, Hydrocotyle Tripartita, Microsorum Pteropus Narrow and Windelov, Cryptocoryne Usteriana, Hygrophila Siamensis 53B, Echinodorus Aquartica. All plants were from Tropica and there was no such damage when I was planting them (there were some v. minor brownish spotting on the narrow java fern). The only algae-like growth I noticed thus far is these translucent-cloudish tiny growths around some loose bits of the liverwort and brownish growth on the narrow java fern (as mentioned above). Shockingly, Hydrocotyle Tripartita seems to be the only one that doesn't have any issues... thus far.
9. Inhabitants - just the plants
10. Full tank shot - attached photos below.
11. Additional info: the temp is being kept between 22 - 23 C, for water treatment I use Prime and initially I also poured in API Quick Start (as per bottle instructions). None of the products I use are past due date.
I would really appreciate any help as the possibility of killing all (or most) of my plants within THE FIRST WEEK of setting everything up just drives me up the wall with stress, hah.
Thanks,
Monozuki
Posting in hopes of getting some help, as am pretty freaked out by now. This is my first aquarium (planted or otherwise) and I tried my best to do things right, but apparently something's out of whack, because within the first 3 days of setting it up (finished everything on Sunday), the plants are rapidly developing these black (or at least very dark) spots, which are quickly growing too. They appear on leaves, not around the edges. The spots are somewhat translucent and gentle rubbing will cause the affected leaf matter to dislodge from the leaf , leaving a hole.
I've first noticed it on the Anubias Nana on Monday (as a few small black spots), and by now half of one leaf has been overtaken and other spots are visible on other leaves. I've noticed these spots (just single ones for now) on my Bucephalandras (Wavy Green, my Kedagangs are too small for me to notice anything, but for now they seem rather healthy), Hygrophila Siamensis 53B seems to be afected too (here spots appear around the edges too), Windelov seems to go around the edges.. please see pictures attached for details and others too.
Now, as for the required stats:
1. Size of tank - 125L (Fluval Roma 125)
2. Filtration - Fluval U3 (slightly modded, insteads of cartridges coarse and fine pond filter foam layers sandwiched on each side; the middle media cartridge filled with the media that came with the filter + remaining space topped up with ceramic mini balls)
3. Lighting and duration - The attached bluetooth led from Fluval, 8 hrs on 60% across all channels plus an hour long sunrise and sunset, then 5% blue for a part of the night and then turned off until 'sunrise' (specs: BT Led Unit Roma 125, A13292 model, 16.5 W, 1300 lumens, 24 Vdc)
4. Substrate - Tropica substrate ca. 1.5 cm over the back half, covered with a 4 - 5 cm layer of fine silver sand (washed in water until water was clear) and topped up with just over 1kg of crushed coral for buffering as my water is very soft and I have basically no kH
5. Co2 dosing or Non-dosing - no CO2
6. Fertilisers used + Ratios - TNC Complete, dosed on startup on Sunday (as per instructions, poured in roughly 13 mL), to be used once a week (as per bottle instructions)
7. Water change regime - not changed yet. For now was planning on 30% per week
8. Plant list - Bucephalandra Kedagang, Bucephalandra Wavy Green, Anubias Nana, Hygrophila Pinnatifida, Monosolenium Tenerum, Aponogeton crispus, Hydrocotyle Tripartita, Microsorum Pteropus Narrow and Windelov, Cryptocoryne Usteriana, Hygrophila Siamensis 53B, Echinodorus Aquartica. All plants were from Tropica and there was no such damage when I was planting them (there were some v. minor brownish spotting on the narrow java fern). The only algae-like growth I noticed thus far is these translucent-cloudish tiny growths around some loose bits of the liverwort and brownish growth on the narrow java fern (as mentioned above). Shockingly, Hydrocotyle Tripartita seems to be the only one that doesn't have any issues... thus far.
9. Inhabitants - just the plants
10. Full tank shot - attached photos below.
11. Additional info: the temp is being kept between 22 - 23 C, for water treatment I use Prime and initially I also poured in API Quick Start (as per bottle instructions). None of the products I use are past due date.
I would really appreciate any help as the possibility of killing all (or most) of my plants within THE FIRST WEEK of setting everything up just drives me up the wall with stress, hah.
Thanks,
Monozuki
