About to give up

[Lifeoffroad]

So I have everything going in this tank. I feed them potassium, excel, macro, lytrite, and root tabs and my plants are now growing faster but dying at the same speed. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Lifeoffroad]

Here's pics.

 

[Gillie]

It looks liked the transition from emersed to immersed growth

 

[Lifeoffroad]

Oh and co2 is in there as well

 

[jetajockey]

What kind of lighting and what size tank?

 

[Lifeoffroad]

It looks liked the transition from emersed to immersed growth

What does that mean

 

[Gillie]

Most aquarium plants are farmed out of water and that emersed growth dies out as the immersed growth comes in. Did you buy them recently?

 

[Lifeoffroad]

What kind of lighting and what size tank?

55 gallon.
58 watt 6700
28 watt 10000

 

[Lifeoffroad]

Most aquarium plants are farmed out of water and that emersed growth dies out as the immersed growth comes in. Did you buy them recently?

Uumm depends on what you consider recently.

Some are as old as 3 to 4 months.

 

[Icd1227]

Just shooting ideas out, maybe your water paramaters are not ideal, maybe your water is too soft. Test your water and check what you should have for the plants.

 

[Gillie]

Just shooting ideas out, maybe your water paramaters are not ideal, maybe your water is too soft. Test your water and check what you should have for the plants.

I doubt the water is too soft for the sword plant

 

[Icd1227]

I'm not super familiar with water hardness. I'm still learning about it at the moment, I was just giving ideas.

 

[jetajockey]

55 gallon.
58 watt 6700
28 watt 10000

I think this is your primary problem.

 

[ztigris]

Do you have a reflector on your lights?

 

[aqua_chem]

You're doing Excel and CO2?

 

[Lifeoffroad]

Do you have a reflector on your lights?

Umm not sure. I have one of those low profile corallifes.

 

[Lifeoffroad]

You're doing Excel and CO2?

Yes. I am using both.

 

[Lifeoffroad]

I think this is your primary problem.

But why? I read as long as you have 40 watts for a 55 gal your good.

 

[stingrays4]

Hi did you say whether you are using a planted substrate or not?
What fish do you have in there?

 

[ztigris]

The wattage isn't as important as the par. I'm not familiar with that hood.
This is probably a really simplified answer for the reflector portion. I'm sure someone can answer it more in depth. But basically if it isn't shiny on the inside of your hood, the light from the top half of the bulb is not going into your tank. You lose most of your par reading because it isn't being reflected back in. Therefore your plants loose that light. A better reflector took my par from being in the low 20's to about 57. All I'm using are two t8 6500 k lights on the 55 and dwarf hair grass is growing. Not as fast as some but growing well. My red plants have rewarded me with better color and growth.