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Hi Donovan.. I too am from India.. coimbatore in tamil nadu. Where r u from? How r ur plants doing now? Can u post some pics? Cheers and thanks. Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk

Some snaps I took yest. Rotala h ra.. emerged form Myriophyllum mattogrossense and Hygrophila difformis Hydrocotyle tripartita honda and Lobelia cardinalis Full tank shot with MC carpet just planted. Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk

That post was in german.. :) but anyways my point is that not only senegalensis, several other plants like aromatica and even rotala had the same fate in my tank earlier. But I may be counting my chicks before they have hatched. Let my plants grow well and then I will show u before and after...

Ok.. got your point. Its a 100 gallon tank with 21 inches height. So the ferts are delivered on the water surface and there is now way of directly hitting one specific plant. And I observed these changes at various positions in the tank, that's how I concluded that co2 was not the cause. I...

Hi.. been a while.. anyway thanks for the reply. But before I go on to what has happened after this thread I would like to understand what u mean by how u dose ur fert? Is that like whether I premix or directly add them to the tank? Not very clear. Anyway I am going out on a limb to say that...

Manually remove with a toothbrush as much as u can and as often as possible. Reducing light intensity by raising the lights a bit will help. Eventually they will disappear as the tank settles in by which I mean that ur plants settle in. So just a matter of time. Until then manual removal is the...

Hi.. I remember reading through ur threads when I was having issues with my frogbits and I think we did converse too. Anyway my frogbits looked almost like what u have shown in your pics. And it was not due to flow related issues. It was definitely nutrient based. As far as micros are...

Thanks Darrel.. always good to hear from you. I do love the limnophila aromatica and when it comes out well its awesome to look at. I continue to use the frogbits to judge nutrient balance cos of 2 reasons.. 1. As u said it takes co2 of the equation because of the exposure to air 2. As its...

Hi.. thanks for your comment. True regarding the feedback of people who have faced issues so that we can get an idea on how to resolve similar issues which we may be having.. Anyway.. although I do use RO I have not replaced chloride at all. All my compounds were sulphate based. Checked my...

Hi, I should have updated this thread a long time back but I was figuring out a lot of things and its taken me almost 2.5 years to figure them out. Even now I have not solved all the issues in my tank but atleast I can now grow most of the plants I try. Specially limnophila aromatica which was...

Think everyone here has already covered most of the areas. Just one thought.. ur plants seem to be growing beautifully. If u turn on co2 2 to 3 hrs before lights on and u still get staghorn algae it may help if u could increase the height of ur lights a bit. From the looks of it.. most of what u...

Hi.. Nice looking tank. I had exactly the same issues as you do and polysperma was one of the plants involved. After a lot of help from this forum (special thanks to Clive) I first tried increasing co2 to the max (which resulted in two of my best rainbows dying). Not much changed and I was then...

Hi everyone.. just to give feedback. I seem to have solved the riddle in my tank.. atleast for now. I put in a new set of frogbits and they r doing well. I was underdosing micros even though i was doing as per directions on the seachem floruish bottle. I started doubling that and every plant...

Hey Clive.. Thank you so much for your feedback. Was hoping you would say something. Means a lot. Anyway here goes.. I installed the second cylinder cos I read Tom Barr saying somewhere that co2 misting was a good way for co2 delivery. Thought i will try that. C ant use a second reactor as...

Just an update on what's happening. What I have changed: 1. Increased the co2.. I have added a second 4kg cylinder in addition to the pre-existing 3 kg. The former has been connected to an in tank ista ceramic diffuser which leads the bubbles into a power head and forms a fine mist (Pls see...