cherokeeluvr
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I’ve been struggling on and off with algae issues then plant growth issues in my tank. The tank at the beginning of this year was doing pretty well, but then cyano bacteria attacked, which led to a complete tank restart. Since that, I’ve had little to no success with plant growth.
Tank Details:
- Fluval spec V (5 gallon)
- Finnex planted plus light (about 6 hours a day) (could a light age out to where it doesn’t grow properly?)
- Flourite sand
- CO2 (1bps; on 2 hours before lights and off 2 hours before the lights go off)
- dose Thrive about 3x a week
- weekly 40% WCs
- 1 betta
- 1 Amano shrimp
In the past, I was able to grow a lush carpet of Monte Carlo easily along with Rotala indica and AR mini with doing the same routine. A little over two weeks ago, I restarted the tank again to a weird algae (not cyano) that I couldn’t get rid of. I purchased a large portion of submersed growth Monte Carlo, octopus plant, Rotala magenta, and pearl weed. All of the plants looked pretty good, except the pearl weed was already a bit rough looking. After 2 weeks, the octopus plant is still looking great and everything else has died with the exceptions of a couple tiny bits of stems on the dead stems. I did get some Red Root floaters, and those are growing like crazy, but everything below water is doing the opposite. I understand that some melt and death will occur from shock of transplanting, but this is beyond that.
Here is the day I planted the new plants.
Here is a look at the tank from a few days ago. If you zoom in, you can really see the amount of dead stems.
Despite this bunch of plants failing over the last couple weeks, I haven’t been able to get anything to grow super healthy in months. Does anybody have clues as to what my problem could be? Any help would be much much appreciated!!
Tank Details:
- Fluval spec V (5 gallon)
- Finnex planted plus light (about 6 hours a day) (could a light age out to where it doesn’t grow properly?)
- Flourite sand
- CO2 (1bps; on 2 hours before lights and off 2 hours before the lights go off)
- dose Thrive about 3x a week
- weekly 40% WCs
- 1 betta
- 1 Amano shrimp
In the past, I was able to grow a lush carpet of Monte Carlo easily along with Rotala indica and AR mini with doing the same routine. A little over two weeks ago, I restarted the tank again to a weird algae (not cyano) that I couldn’t get rid of. I purchased a large portion of submersed growth Monte Carlo, octopus plant, Rotala magenta, and pearl weed. All of the plants looked pretty good, except the pearl weed was already a bit rough looking. After 2 weeks, the octopus plant is still looking great and everything else has died with the exceptions of a couple tiny bits of stems on the dead stems. I did get some Red Root floaters, and those are growing like crazy, but everything below water is doing the opposite. I understand that some melt and death will occur from shock of transplanting, but this is beyond that.
Here is the day I planted the new plants.
Here is a look at the tank from a few days ago. If you zoom in, you can really see the amount of dead stems.
Despite this bunch of plants failing over the last couple weeks, I haven’t been able to get anything to grow super healthy in months. Does anybody have clues as to what my problem could be? Any help would be much much appreciated!!