Tetra22
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Apr 1, 2009
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- 75
Nobody can seem to tell me what's going on. I have a standard 55g tank with 160w of 6500k, T12 shop lights. I have I DIY co2 system at about 1bps, being completely dissolved. I'm adding the recomended amounts of dry kno3, kh2po4, a little extra iron and potassium with leaf zone, and flourish comprehensive 3 times a week with a 40% wc each week. I have some anubias, melon sword, anacharis, and some other plant I don't remember that are all rather small and pathetic. Tanks been running for about 2 years, these live plants about 1.5 years. I had the plain old standard lighting first with no added nutrition and my plants took of like crazy. Then they just stopped growing. So slowly I've added all the different necessities and they still won't grow. I do only have regular natural color gravel but that shouldn't make this big of a difference. I just bought some nice new lush anacharis bunches in hopes that maybe a brand new plant would grow. And I just bought one different bulb, a 40w aquarium T12 that has a CRI of 92. My other 6500k bulbs didn't say aquarium on them and they only had a CRI of like 75. But they had like 3000 lumens in, what I believe, the right spectrum. As far as I can find, I'm doing everything they say to.
Please, I'll give you a penny for your thoughts! But you have to first put your 2 cents in.
Nitrates are at 15-30ppm
Ph is about 7.6
No ammonia or nitrite
I only have strip tests for kh and gh levels which don't give squat of an accurate reading.
Please, I'll give you a penny for your thoughts! But you have to first put your 2 cents in.
Nitrates are at 15-30ppm
Ph is about 7.6
No ammonia or nitrite
I only have strip tests for kh and gh levels which don't give squat of an accurate reading.