I think my plants are experiencing nitrogen deficiency and whiting in the leaves I'm seeing is chlorosis. All of my plants seem to be effected. I am about 4 days overdue for a PWC but my nitrates are only 5 ppm and have been for about 5 days. I do have some Flourish Nitrogen ordered that should be there tomorrow. However, it may not arrive before I have to head out of town for the weekend. So do I wait another couple of days on the PWC or just do a smaller PWC (I was going to do 50%). A PWC will further reduce my nitrates and I may not be able to add some additional nitrogen until Sunday afternoon. Will my plants be okay? Will they recover from this? They had been doing great during my fishless cycle with all the available nitrates. Growth was great. Obviously my fish are not producing enough ammonia to generate the amount of nitrates for the plants I have.
I have a 29 gallon, with 5 Cherry Barbs, 5 Lemon Tetras, 4 Julii Cory, several dwarf lettuce plants, one large mother amazon sword with runners and multiple babies, 3 dwarf sagittaria, 4 banana plants, 3 java ferns, 2 moss balls, 2 anubias hastifolia, and some mirco sword. So far I have only dosed Flourish Excel daily and added phosphorus to balance the nitrates. I also added root tabs when I added the plants about 3 weeks ago. I did add a dose of API leaf zone last weekend but it may have made things worse. I thought the might help me see some growth in my java ferns. I also am starting to see a breakout of brown algae. I have a Finnex Stingray light that I run 9 hrs a day, 4 in the am, 4 hour break and 5 in the afternoon/evening. I'm feeling like things are just out of balance for my plants. So do I wait a little longer on the PWC or go for it anyway? Thanks for the help.
I have a 29 gallon, with 5 Cherry Barbs, 5 Lemon Tetras, 4 Julii Cory, several dwarf lettuce plants, one large mother amazon sword with runners and multiple babies, 3 dwarf sagittaria, 4 banana plants, 3 java ferns, 2 moss balls, 2 anubias hastifolia, and some mirco sword. So far I have only dosed Flourish Excel daily and added phosphorus to balance the nitrates. I also added root tabs when I added the plants about 3 weeks ago. I did add a dose of API leaf zone last weekend but it may have made things worse. I thought the might help me see some growth in my java ferns. I also am starting to see a breakout of brown algae. I have a Finnex Stingray light that I run 9 hrs a day, 4 in the am, 4 hour break and 5 in the afternoon/evening. I'm feeling like things are just out of balance for my plants. So do I wait a little longer on the PWC or go for it anyway? Thanks for the help.