craig981
Seedling
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- 1 Dec 2014
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Hi, i'm completely new here and i tried to find the answer but maybe i missed it if there was similar post already so please forgive me.
i set up my dream tank after 10 years of not having any. Its roma 240 with standard lights and Eheim Filter.
Fish: 9 small angels to let them pair off, 20 neon tetras, 8 corydoras
Plants (I wanted to keep it simple and low tech, but the tank is planted quite heavily already):
20 vallis spirallis, 20 vallis tortifolia, 20 vallis natans, 3 amazon swords, 3 small echinodorus (i cannot find what it is but i liked it in shop), 20 hygrphila, eleocharis here and there and dwarf pistia 1/3 of water surface.
diy root tabs in planted sections.
Everything looked promising after first week with no fish. All Valls were shooting runners. tortifilia started to shed old leaves but grew new ones in the same time. but then everything kind of stopped. small hair algea appeared on all valls taking all shine of it. i checked nitrites and nitrates every couple of days and the test kit shows 0!!!
Is it possible? Where did i go wrong? Please advise
i set up my dream tank after 10 years of not having any. Its roma 240 with standard lights and Eheim Filter.
Fish: 9 small angels to let them pair off, 20 neon tetras, 8 corydoras
Plants (I wanted to keep it simple and low tech, but the tank is planted quite heavily already):
20 vallis spirallis, 20 vallis tortifolia, 20 vallis natans, 3 amazon swords, 3 small echinodorus (i cannot find what it is but i liked it in shop), 20 hygrphila, eleocharis here and there and dwarf pistia 1/3 of water surface.
diy root tabs in planted sections.
Everything looked promising after first week with no fish. All Valls were shooting runners. tortifilia started to shed old leaves but grew new ones in the same time. but then everything kind of stopped. small hair algea appeared on all valls taking all shine of it. i checked nitrites and nitrates every couple of days and the test kit shows 0!!!
Is it possible? Where did i go wrong? Please advise