My Tank Pics + problems

[rohitp78]

Thanks for all the help i found here, i was able to set up my Tank successfully.

I am attaching the pictures of my tank.

Tank specs:
30Gallon
65W Dual daylight
Dosing a weekly of specified dose of SeaChem Flourish comprehensive, Seachem Flourish Phospherous, Seachem Flourish Potassium, Seachem Flourish Nitrogen.
Below each rooted plant i have put in Seachem flourish tabs.


30% weekly water changes.

 

[mr funktastic]

what problems? looks good to me. maybe a little more hardscape to fill in the blank spots but besides that looks awesome.

 

[rohitp78]

Problems

Here are some of the problems i am facing..

In pictures below and some of the above pictures, some plant branches that are old have been turning brown, is this brown algea? How can i get rid of this stuff?

Also in swords, the new leaves have brown viens. does anyone know why? Is it a any deficiency?

I currenly turn on my lights from 8.00am - 1.00pm then 5.00pm -10.00pm (10 hours). As my tank is not heavily planted and reduce green algae its 10 hours.

 

[mr funktastic]

my swords did the same thing but were al;ways very healthy and grew well. i dont think it is a bad thing. as for the browning... its hard to tell from your pics but it does look like algae. how new is the tank? if it is new then it is probably just diatoms.

 

[rohitp78]

My tank is not new, it was resetup in April 2006, i had brown algae before i upgraded lightning. After using PC all had disappeared.

 

[newfound77951]

If the brown veins on the sword leaves are just on the new leaves and then go away when they leaves grow, then I wouldn't worry about it. A lot of times the leaves change color as they get older. I have an ozelot sword and the new leaves are bright red then turn darker red and finally dark green as they mature. I had another very large sword plant and the new leaves were reddish yellow and then turned green.

The only thing I can think of for the browning leaves on the wisteria is that you may not have your lights on long enough. At 2 wpg and 8 hours of light a day, that's not much light. I might try increasing the amount of time the lights are on to 10 hours per day and see if that helps.

 

[Zezmo]

Those "brown" or maybe Red, veins on your swords indicate that you are doing a good job and have very healthy plants. That is a good sign. The tank looks great.
Trim off the older browning leaves, part of keeping things nice is removing the older growth.

 

[rohitp78]

Thanks for the advices

newfound77951:
Yeah as the leaves mature the brown veins disappear. I had set it to 10 hours to reduce the green algea that was being growing on my tank sides. I have increased my lights to 11 hours/day.

Zezmo:
Thanks, that cleared my doubt of brown veins. I will be trimming my older growth sometime today..