Hello,
this is my first post here and I just started so please bear with me. Last friday night I finished scaping and filling my very first tank. I started very heavily planted - there is barely any place left I could plant anymore. The soil is ADA Amazonia Aqua Soil and I've got different brand root tabs/sticks in the soil. There are no fish in the tank for now.
https://imgur.com/gallery/uvb1TYk
The aquarium is 120 litres and I have an Eheim eXperience 250 filled with Seachem Matrix and ~150gr of Seachem Purigen in a small bag inside of it.
Lights are LEDs from Juwel (brand of the aquarium) though I swapped one of the LEDs with a better one. According to my LFS these qualify as "medium" lights".
I started the aquarium up adding a bigger dose of Seachem Stability and Flourish Excel as instructed in the manual. I also dosed the regular amount suggested of Aqua Rebell Mikro Basic Eisen and Aqua Rebell Makro Basic Estimative Index. Together these add 1.5 mg/l NO3, 0.28 mg/l PO4, 1.18 mg/l K, 0.11 mg/l Mg, 0.017 mg/l Fe, 0.008 mg/l Mn, 0.001 mg/l Cu, 0.0007 mg/l B, 0.0003 mg/l Zn and 0.0007 mg/l Mo daily to the tank at my dosing amount. I also have buffered KH up, because out of the tap it is < 2dKH https://imgur.com/EMlLU0u
I don't have pressurized CO2 (yet), but the drop checker indicates light green anyway, probably due to Flourish Excel?
To my issue:
It is now day 5 and my plants aren't looking all that great. I know plants can melt if they were grown emerged, but there isn't any good info I've found on whether this always happens or whether I am doing something wrong.
Monte carlo leaves are turning translucent and yellow, so are some of the Hemianthus Cuba leaves. Amazon Sword leaves are browning and tips are melting off. Marsilea Hirsuta looks brown and like nothing has happened to it after unboxing. Some of my Riccardia Chamedryfolia moss balls have started turning brown, and there is some white hair-like substance that appears on the mosses and some other plants (maybe identified as Fuzz algae?)
Some sources says these indicate a lack of nutrients, but then again I am already adding the recommended dose and measured Nitrates are climbing, which makes me presume everything else must be climbing also although I can only measure PO4, Nitrate and soon K. Other sources say its melt, but I just don't know. How long does melt take? Is there any way to prevent it? Should I keep dosing the ferts at the current rate?
Thank you in advance for all the help.
this is my first post here and I just started so please bear with me. Last friday night I finished scaping and filling my very first tank. I started very heavily planted - there is barely any place left I could plant anymore. The soil is ADA Amazonia Aqua Soil and I've got different brand root tabs/sticks in the soil. There are no fish in the tank for now.
https://imgur.com/gallery/uvb1TYk
The aquarium is 120 litres and I have an Eheim eXperience 250 filled with Seachem Matrix and ~150gr of Seachem Purigen in a small bag inside of it.
Lights are LEDs from Juwel (brand of the aquarium) though I swapped one of the LEDs with a better one. According to my LFS these qualify as "medium" lights".
I started the aquarium up adding a bigger dose of Seachem Stability and Flourish Excel as instructed in the manual. I also dosed the regular amount suggested of Aqua Rebell Mikro Basic Eisen and Aqua Rebell Makro Basic Estimative Index. Together these add 1.5 mg/l NO3, 0.28 mg/l PO4, 1.18 mg/l K, 0.11 mg/l Mg, 0.017 mg/l Fe, 0.008 mg/l Mn, 0.001 mg/l Cu, 0.0007 mg/l B, 0.0003 mg/l Zn and 0.0007 mg/l Mo daily to the tank at my dosing amount. I also have buffered KH up, because out of the tap it is < 2dKH https://imgur.com/EMlLU0u
I don't have pressurized CO2 (yet), but the drop checker indicates light green anyway, probably due to Flourish Excel?
To my issue:
It is now day 5 and my plants aren't looking all that great. I know plants can melt if they were grown emerged, but there isn't any good info I've found on whether this always happens or whether I am doing something wrong.
Monte carlo leaves are turning translucent and yellow, so are some of the Hemianthus Cuba leaves. Amazon Sword leaves are browning and tips are melting off. Marsilea Hirsuta looks brown and like nothing has happened to it after unboxing. Some of my Riccardia Chamedryfolia moss balls have started turning brown, and there is some white hair-like substance that appears on the mosses and some other plants (maybe identified as Fuzz algae?)
Some sources says these indicate a lack of nutrients, but then again I am already adding the recommended dose and measured Nitrates are climbing, which makes me presume everything else must be climbing also although I can only measure PO4, Nitrate and soon K. Other sources say its melt, but I just don't know. How long does melt take? Is there any way to prevent it? Should I keep dosing the ferts at the current rate?
Thank you in advance for all the help.