Hi,
I'm only 18 months in to the hobby and about 3 weeks in to the wold of live aquarium plants but I'm trying and willing to learn!
I'm in the process of doing a fishless cycle on a 30l cube, and it was going to plan (4 weeks in so far), with drift wood and anubias attached (with liquid fertilers).
It's all gone a bit wrong after I added some substrate plants (crypts and sagg)...
I've got small gravel (about 2 -3 mm diametre) and added root tabs for them yesterday evening (tropica nutrition capsules) as per the instructions on spacing etc.
I've checked my water parameters this morning and the ammonia and nitrite have both spiked, from 0.25 amm and 0.25 nitrite at time of planting, to 8ppm amm and 2 ppm nitrite tonight!!
The only variable is the root tabs, are these the culprit?! The gravel is 2 inches deep and I pushed them down to the glass at the bottom..
I've done a large water change, but where should I go from here?!
Any help appreciated, thank you
I'm only 18 months in to the hobby and about 3 weeks in to the wold of live aquarium plants but I'm trying and willing to learn!
I'm in the process of doing a fishless cycle on a 30l cube, and it was going to plan (4 weeks in so far), with drift wood and anubias attached (with liquid fertilers).
It's all gone a bit wrong after I added some substrate plants (crypts and sagg)...
I've got small gravel (about 2 -3 mm diametre) and added root tabs for them yesterday evening (tropica nutrition capsules) as per the instructions on spacing etc.
I've checked my water parameters this morning and the ammonia and nitrite have both spiked, from 0.25 amm and 0.25 nitrite at time of planting, to 8ppm amm and 2 ppm nitrite tonight!!
The only variable is the root tabs, are these the culprit?! The gravel is 2 inches deep and I pushed them down to the glass at the bottom..
I've done a large water change, but where should I go from here?!
Any help appreciated, thank you