spindly plants

[Swampman]

Take a look at the photos. Why are the plants so spindly? I feed them envy,excel and propel. The light is on 10 hours Fluvial plant LED. The tank to far from over crowded. When I prune the plants they seem to die off a bit. Thanks

 

[SaraB]

The lights themselves may not be strong enough. Is your tank blackwater?

 

[Barliman]

You say you have a fluval plant LED - what model is it? Plants "reaching" like that is in my experience a sign of not enough light. Do you have a lot of floating plants?

 

[Swampman]

plants

I have the Fluvial LED that says Plants. The reason the water is on the brown side is the drift wood in the tank. I boiled it for 2 hours changing water once. Very brown water. Put it in the tank, add water, brown. It does look good with the neons. This is the first time I had brown water. I bought at the same time another piece of drift wood. tannins came out. Put in tank add water no brown. Strange. Same type of wood. I have the canister filter hoses on the side of the tank. The light isn't shinning well in the back. Maybe that is my problem. I just cleaned and changed the Clearmax. I'll change the hoses to the back. Light will be shinning on the back. Thanks for the info. You would think after getting back in the hobby 10 years ago I would have thought about that.