switched substrate, plants are now yellow?

[courtanee]

Hi all,

I just added some Carib sea substrate on top of my eco-complete substrate.
After a couple days of this new substrate most of my plants are not as vibrant green as they use to be and some leaves are coming off :/

Any ideas what it could be?
I dose liquid CO2 everyday, I have about 2.5 watts per gallon of light. I never had any problems with these plants until a couple days ago...

(Attached link for new substrate:
http://m.petsmart.com/mt/www.petsma...sp?productId=11147295&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No)

 

[wildroseofky]

Anytime you make a change to the substrate it takes plants a while to recoup. Sounds like you made the substrate deeper and the plants will have to make some new roots. This will make the leaves suffer for a little bit. They should recover in a couple of weeks. Do you add root tabs? That might help them recover quicker.

 

[courtanee]

Anytime you make a change to the substrate it takes plants a while to recoup. Sounds like you made the substrate deeper and the plants will have to make some new roots. This will make the leaves suffer for a little bit. They should recover in a couple of weeks. Do you add root tabs? That might help them recover quicker.

Hm no I have never added root tabs... I might try that. Its frustrating seeing those healthy plants regress but I needed my substrate to be deeper... Necessary evil I suppose. Thanks for the tip! Every tried using the flourish liquid team?

 

[courtanee]

Here's the tank btw

 

[wildroseofky]

Nice tank. I used to use the Flourish products but switched to dry ferts using the EI dosing method and Matricide 14 (glutaraldehyde). It is a lot cheaper. I was going through a lot of the Flourish stuff with three tanks. I use the Jobe plant spikes for houseplants as root tabs. You get a lot for $2. The root tabs for tanks get expensive. A lot of people make their own root tabs too with Osmocote plant fertilizer but I believe it has been discontinued.

 

[courtanee]

Thank you! I'll try to find those you suggested, sigh plants can be so much work! At least they're rewarding!