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Plants issue
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Trevor Pleco
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We need more info with the basic tank set up/specs.. substrate (looks like ordinary silica), lighting, Co2... presumably not, water specs, are you dosing at all ?
My Tank:
Size: 180L
Light: 2x54w T5HO 1 aqua medic 10k and 1 Philips 6500 daylight
Fert: EI, followed this guide
Substrate: some tetra complete substrate under the Zeo-light gravel + sera tabs
CO2: about 6 bps and drop check yellow + good water flow.
Size: 180L
Light: 2x54w T5HO 1 aqua medic 10k and 1 Philips 6500 daylight
Fert: EI, followed this guide
Substrate: some tetra complete substrate under the Zeo-light gravel + sera tabs
CO2: about 6 bps and drop check yellow + good water flow.
Trevor Pleco
Member
At a quick glance I would swap out the aqua medic 10k for say Sylvania grolux, as far as I know the A‘medic 10K is mainly for marine use. What is your photo period ?
Getting an idea on your current water parameters would also provide clues as to what’s happening here.. How often are you doing water changes ?
Getting an idea on your current water parameters would also provide clues as to what’s happening here.. How often are you doing water changes ?
photo period: 10h
WC: 80% 1/week
and i have another T5 6500k i can replace the 10k with it, if that will help.
Nutty
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Hi Ahmad,
Looks like melt which normally means too much light/for too long, therefore not enough CO2 with/or poor distribution
Start by reducing light to one tube if possible or removing reflectors, next move your drop checker around the tank to check CO2 distribution and also visually observe for dead spots, to improve flow upgrade filter/add a power head/ redirect spray bar.
remove damaged/decaying leaves so they don't reduce water quality further.
Start simple, you can hope it might be an easy fix!
Cheers,
Nutty
Looks like melt which normally means too much light/for too long, therefore not enough CO2 with/or poor distribution
Start by reducing light to one tube if possible or removing reflectors, next move your drop checker around the tank to check CO2 distribution and also visually observe for dead spots, to improve flow upgrade filter/add a power head/ redirect spray bar.
remove damaged/decaying leaves so they don't reduce water quality further.
Start simple, you can hope it might be an easy fix!
Cheers,
Nutty
Martin in Holland
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my guess would also be too much light ...8 hours should be enough... I also see as if there are CO2 bubbles coming out of the spray bar and immediately go to up, this looks like your filter pump is not up for the job. How much liter per hour is it?.....should be 10x the tank (and filter "bucket") or more
