niru
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Hi All
I am having trouble getting UG to take hold in my tank.
Its a 180 litre, 90W T5HO (2+ yrs old) tubes, EI, > 10X filteration flow with spray bars, and heavy CO2 (>7bps) that comes 3+ hrs before lights and goes out 2 hrs before light off. The tank is heavily planted with rotalas, pogostomon, limnofilia, Stauro, Alternanthera, etc.., has akadama substrate with peat, osmocote, laterite, zeolite bottom. All other plants are doing exceedingly well, except UG.
I recently did a new scape (journal in planning). Wanted UG as foreground carpet. The tropica UG pots started melting and got lots of green threadlike algae. Thought it was a new setup imbalance issue. Filters are matured though. I use small grain akadama for UG and the area gets unshaded light.
Recently added big pots of UG once again (Dennerle + tropica), but to no avail. The frontmost UG patches are melting and looks like algae are taking them once again. I dont know how to save these. I dose EasyCarbo, but cant overdose since I found Didiplis Diandra getting affected by this. Flow is quite strong all through the tank.
Any ideas? Anyone?
-niru
I am having trouble getting UG to take hold in my tank.
Its a 180 litre, 90W T5HO (2+ yrs old) tubes, EI, > 10X filteration flow with spray bars, and heavy CO2 (>7bps) that comes 3+ hrs before lights and goes out 2 hrs before light off. The tank is heavily planted with rotalas, pogostomon, limnofilia, Stauro, Alternanthera, etc.., has akadama substrate with peat, osmocote, laterite, zeolite bottom. All other plants are doing exceedingly well, except UG.
I recently did a new scape (journal in planning). Wanted UG as foreground carpet. The tropica UG pots started melting and got lots of green threadlike algae. Thought it was a new setup imbalance issue. Filters are matured though. I use small grain akadama for UG and the area gets unshaded light.
Recently added big pots of UG once again (Dennerle + tropica), but to no avail. The frontmost UG patches are melting and looks like algae are taking them once again. I dont know how to save these. I dose EasyCarbo, but cant overdose since I found Didiplis Diandra getting affected by this. Flow is quite strong all through the tank.
Any ideas? Anyone?
-niru