Zara28
Seedling
Hi,
My plants seem to be dying and I'm not sure what I need to do to save them...
I've given up trying to grow Vallis - they created lots of runners but these dont grow and end up melting away
And my other plants (planted just over a month ago) are now turning brown or white
My tank setup (been running for 6 months):
fluval roma 240 tank with a 306 external filter and what ever the lights that came with it were (2 x T8?)
The lights are on 3 hours in the morning and 3 in the evening (this has only recently been increased from 4 hours daily as thought the plants were turning brown due to lack of light)
substrate: 2 - 3 inches of sand
I fertilize with root tabs every month, 3 ml daily of easycarbo liquid carbon (slowly increasing to 4ml), and a weekly dose of the easycarbo fertilizer
And I do a weekly water change of 10% and try to avoid over cleaning the sand
Water details:
PH - 7.6
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 10
KH - 5 drops
GH - 14 drops
Tap water parameters:
PH - 7.6
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 30 - 40
Anyone got any ideas what is going on and how I go about solving it?
My plants seem to be dying and I'm not sure what I need to do to save them...
I've given up trying to grow Vallis - they created lots of runners but these dont grow and end up melting away
And my other plants (planted just over a month ago) are now turning brown or white
My tank setup (been running for 6 months):
fluval roma 240 tank with a 306 external filter and what ever the lights that came with it were (2 x T8?)
The lights are on 3 hours in the morning and 3 in the evening (this has only recently been increased from 4 hours daily as thought the plants were turning brown due to lack of light)
substrate: 2 - 3 inches of sand
I fertilize with root tabs every month, 3 ml daily of easycarbo liquid carbon (slowly increasing to 4ml), and a weekly dose of the easycarbo fertilizer
And I do a weekly water change of 10% and try to avoid over cleaning the sand
Water details:
PH - 7.6
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 10
KH - 5 drops
GH - 14 drops
Tap water parameters:
PH - 7.6
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 30 - 40
Anyone got any ideas what is going on and how I go about solving it?