kimmcannally
Aquarium Advice Regular
Anyone else using Golden Pothos in their tank?
I've got it in a 55 gallon with two 48" T8 bulbs (6500K), completely submerged.
It was doing great until I added API Leaf Zone and Seachem Flourish last week. Today (8 days later) I noticed that two of them are dead.
The third one is doing just fine, but it's in the top of an ornamental stump instead of being planted in the sand. I put an API root tab by the ones in the sand and left the other one alone. Think the root tabs did it?
The dead ones are also on the filter side of the tank, so get more water agitation. I left the roots in the tank, as the part that is left is still firm and has roots growing out of it. But most of the stems and the leaves just turned to mush.
If the other one (which has been in the tank longer) wasn't doing so well, I'd think they just can't grow submerged in this tank. But the first one is doing fine.
Any ideas?
Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0 Nitrate was up to 40 (WC now) and pH 7.0
In this same tank I have Frogbit, a couple of Java Moss "sheets" growing between plastic canvas for now, an Amazon Sword, a Crypt, an African Water fern and an Aisian Water Fern and a couple of Anubias - all are doing fine.
Added some pics of what I've got. Lights are on 7 am to 9 pm with an hour break (just changed that to a two hour break since I have some algae now).
You can see the Pothos that is doing well and the root system left of the one that melted.
I've got it in a 55 gallon with two 48" T8 bulbs (6500K), completely submerged.
It was doing great until I added API Leaf Zone and Seachem Flourish last week. Today (8 days later) I noticed that two of them are dead.
The third one is doing just fine, but it's in the top of an ornamental stump instead of being planted in the sand. I put an API root tab by the ones in the sand and left the other one alone. Think the root tabs did it?
The dead ones are also on the filter side of the tank, so get more water agitation. I left the roots in the tank, as the part that is left is still firm and has roots growing out of it. But most of the stems and the leaves just turned to mush.
If the other one (which has been in the tank longer) wasn't doing so well, I'd think they just can't grow submerged in this tank. But the first one is doing fine.
Any ideas?
Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0 Nitrate was up to 40 (WC now) and pH 7.0
In this same tank I have Frogbit, a couple of Java Moss "sheets" growing between plastic canvas for now, an Amazon Sword, a Crypt, an African Water fern and an Aisian Water Fern and a couple of Anubias - all are doing fine.
Added some pics of what I've got. Lights are on 7 am to 9 pm with an hour break (just changed that to a two hour break since I have some algae now).
You can see the Pothos that is doing well and the root system left of the one that melted.
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