marisullivan
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have several tanks and have java moss in most of them. My most "planted" tank - my baby - is a 40gal. live bearer tank. I have several water sprite and java fern in it - that are in the subtrate and java moss just floating. My java moss is in this tank is turning brown. I leave the lights on for 8 hours a day, clean my tank every other Saturday and dose it with excel 1x a week. To no avail. It is so brown and I have researched and tried what I feel is everything.
I dosed it with 1x Excel and 10x Water for about 4 min. to get rid of algae.
I have tried to move it out of the light a little and put it under the baby hideout - nothing.
I had a diy co2 on the tank but took it off - since this is a more natural ecological tank - or so that is what I was going for.
I tried pushing a little of the java moss in the subtrate - as a friend recommended - to let it get some of the nutrients from the poo in the subtrate - again....nothing.
Any suggestions at this point are very helpful.
oh - I have the standard lighting - as I heard it was a "low light" plant - and grows anywhere (except here).
My temp stays at 80F.
Thank you - M.
I dosed it with 1x Excel and 10x Water for about 4 min. to get rid of algae.
I have tried to move it out of the light a little and put it under the baby hideout - nothing.
I had a diy co2 on the tank but took it off - since this is a more natural ecological tank - or so that is what I was going for.
I tried pushing a little of the java moss in the subtrate - as a friend recommended - to let it get some of the nutrients from the poo in the subtrate - again....nothing.
Any suggestions at this point are very helpful.
oh - I have the standard lighting - as I heard it was a "low light" plant - and grows anywhere (except here).
My temp stays at 80F.
Thank you - M.