QueenKiara
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Hi, everyone! I have a new 10 gallon tank that's fishless cycling right now. It's in the middle of the nitrite spike, >5ppm of nitrites but consistently bringing 2pmm of ammonia down to 0 every 24 hours. I added plants the same day that I added ammonia, on March 20th. I'm using Dr. Tim's Ammonium Chloride for aquariums. The plants that I have are Staurogyne Repens, Bacopa Caroliniana, Anubias Nana, and Cryptocoryne Wendtii Green. I just want to make sure I'm doing everything right.
I believe it's considered a low tech, low light tank. The substrate is Eco Complete Planted Aquarium Substrate, and I have occasional Seachem Root Tabs in it where I have plants. The light is an 18 inch Zoo Med Ultra Sun Trichromatic Super Daylight 6500K Fluorescent Bulb T8 15 Watt. It's on a timer from 11am to 7pm daily. The temperature is 78 degrees F. I'm dosing it with .83 mL Seachem Flourish Comprehensive weekly and 1 mL Seachem Excel daily, which are both the amount recommended on the bottle. The tank has an Fluval Aquaclear 50 on it. Lastly, the pH of the tank is a stable 7.8.
I removed all of the dead leaves from the plants when I planted them. So, I wanted to make sure I was doing everything right because the Staurogyne Repens doesn't look great, and a few leaves on the Cryptocoryne are kind of wavy. I can see new growth on the Bacopa though, so I'm just not sure. I'll attach pictures of the tank, and you guys can just tell me what you think. The first picture is the tank when I first put the plants in, and the rest are of the plants now. Any advice is appreciated!
I believe it's considered a low tech, low light tank. The substrate is Eco Complete Planted Aquarium Substrate, and I have occasional Seachem Root Tabs in it where I have plants. The light is an 18 inch Zoo Med Ultra Sun Trichromatic Super Daylight 6500K Fluorescent Bulb T8 15 Watt. It's on a timer from 11am to 7pm daily. The temperature is 78 degrees F. I'm dosing it with .83 mL Seachem Flourish Comprehensive weekly and 1 mL Seachem Excel daily, which are both the amount recommended on the bottle. The tank has an Fluval Aquaclear 50 on it. Lastly, the pH of the tank is a stable 7.8.
I removed all of the dead leaves from the plants when I planted them. So, I wanted to make sure I was doing everything right because the Staurogyne Repens doesn't look great, and a few leaves on the Cryptocoryne are kind of wavy. I can see new growth on the Bacopa though, so I'm just not sure. I'll attach pictures of the tank, and you guys can just tell me what you think. The first picture is the tank when I first put the plants in, and the rest are of the plants now. Any advice is appreciated!