EA James
Member
Hi all,
I've got a few unknown issues going on in the tank that are making a few of the plants look dirty and not as nice and lush green as I would expect/want!
Tank and routine details are-
The tank is an EA freshwater 1200, FX4 filter, APS surface skimmer, Eheim Pre-filter.
One Fluval Aquasky 33w
2 x stock EA LED tubes both 20w each
7 hour photoperiod
co2 art pro duel reg, co2 on two hours before lights on, DC green at lights on, co2 off two hours before lights off
Dosing Ei ferts- Copy and pasted from my 'Will APFUK suit my needs thread' sorted by @X3NiTH 🙂
The weight of salts required to add to 5L of RO water for 100ml per dose to a 300L tank and their resultant concentration increase in parts per million ppm (1ppm = 1mg/L) to the tank total volume per dose is as follows -
21.5g KH2PO4
Per 100ml dose - [PO4 = 1ppm] [K = 0.41ppm]
506g MgSO4.7H2O
Per 100ml dose - [Mg = 3.33ppm] [SO4 = 13.17ppm] [dGH = 0.77]
81.5g KNO3
Per 100ml dose - [NO3 = 3.33ppm] [K = 2.10ppm]
Per week total addition (3 doses) =
PO4 = 3ppm
Mg = 9.99ppm
NO3 = 9.99ppm
K = 7.53ppm
SO4 = 39.51ppm
dGH = 2.31
Micro nutrients APFUK trace, dosed as per the instructions (60ml every other day in my tank)
Also been using Microbe lift bio co2, dosing every other day with Macros (6ml)
At least 50-60% WC every week, glass cleaned and prefilter cleaned, surface skimmer cleaned and new floss added, filter gets a clean once a month/6 weeks. I try and keep everything as clean as possible, dead leaves removed etc every week.
So basically as the title suggests, somethings not right and I don't know what it is so some help/advice would be great. Lots of the plants have slightly black edges on them, some look dirty, The bolbitis is really going black but the new growth looks nice and green and its pumping out loads of new growth too. Some plants, mainly the Buce's have some holes in a few of the leaves too.
I'll post some photos below so you can see for yourselves. Really hooping something can be done as I love the tank and the scape is really starting to get it where I want it to be but this is starting to make me feel like I'm failing....which I hate!!
Cheers everyone for reading all this, I just wanted to put as much info as possible, anything I've missed just shout and I'll add it up.
Thank you 🙂
I've got a few unknown issues going on in the tank that are making a few of the plants look dirty and not as nice and lush green as I would expect/want!
Tank and routine details are-
The tank is an EA freshwater 1200, FX4 filter, APS surface skimmer, Eheim Pre-filter.
One Fluval Aquasky 33w
2 x stock EA LED tubes both 20w each
7 hour photoperiod
co2 art pro duel reg, co2 on two hours before lights on, DC green at lights on, co2 off two hours before lights off
Dosing Ei ferts- Copy and pasted from my 'Will APFUK suit my needs thread' sorted by @X3NiTH 🙂
The weight of salts required to add to 5L of RO water for 100ml per dose to a 300L tank and their resultant concentration increase in parts per million ppm (1ppm = 1mg/L) to the tank total volume per dose is as follows -
21.5g KH2PO4
Per 100ml dose - [PO4 = 1ppm] [K = 0.41ppm]
506g MgSO4.7H2O
Per 100ml dose - [Mg = 3.33ppm] [SO4 = 13.17ppm] [dGH = 0.77]
81.5g KNO3
Per 100ml dose - [NO3 = 3.33ppm] [K = 2.10ppm]
Per week total addition (3 doses) =
PO4 = 3ppm
Mg = 9.99ppm
NO3 = 9.99ppm
K = 7.53ppm
SO4 = 39.51ppm
dGH = 2.31
Micro nutrients APFUK trace, dosed as per the instructions (60ml every other day in my tank)
Also been using Microbe lift bio co2, dosing every other day with Macros (6ml)
At least 50-60% WC every week, glass cleaned and prefilter cleaned, surface skimmer cleaned and new floss added, filter gets a clean once a month/6 weeks. I try and keep everything as clean as possible, dead leaves removed etc every week.
So basically as the title suggests, somethings not right and I don't know what it is so some help/advice would be great. Lots of the plants have slightly black edges on them, some look dirty, The bolbitis is really going black but the new growth looks nice and green and its pumping out loads of new growth too. Some plants, mainly the Buce's have some holes in a few of the leaves too.
I'll post some photos below so you can see for yourselves. Really hooping something can be done as I love the tank and the scape is really starting to get it where I want it to be but this is starting to make me feel like I'm failing....which I hate!!
Cheers everyone for reading all this, I just wanted to put as much info as possible, anything I've missed just shout and I'll add it up.
Thank you 🙂