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mlgt

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I wanted to know what plants can dousing Easycarbon affect?

Most of the time I hear it "melts" certain plants, eg Vallis.

But is there an actual list of plants that will suffer from this type of fertilisation?

Looking forward to hearing your experience on this.

Thanks in advance.

R
 
As far as I am aware it affects most of the vallis species, other than that you should be safe, judging by the plants you had in your tank when I visited last night 😛 you shouldn't have a problem (just get rid of the vallis)
 
Thanks for the advice LondonDragon.

I will source other grass like plant instead to fill my background.
I wonder if crinium natans or cyperus helferi will suffice. Tall hairgrass is also another option I guess.
 
Hiya, Crinum grows very large but they aren't affected by easy carbo and the like. Elodea densa isn't too keen on it and I also witnessed a spectacular vote of disapproval from Limnophila sessiliflora..... fell to pieces in a matter of days!
Easy to avoid these species tho 🙂

Andy
 
It will melt all liverwarts and bladderwarts. UG, riccia subwassertang etc will all melt.
 
Think will try the crinium species ti imitate the big grass leaves it can create. I am fond of them lingering in the background.

Will look into tall hairgrass, however I am experimenting with easycarbo before jumping straight into a co2 set up.

The problem I face is that I have discus fish and worry about the technical start process in getting everything right.

I will post another thread on the fish section I think asking about discus fish and co2 set up.
 
Garuf said:
It will melt all liverwarts and bladderwarts. UG, riccia subwassertang etc will all melt.
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I have liverworts and they have been unaffected by liquid carbon. Apart form growing a bit faster :lol:
 
I've had it melt Riccia (I've overdosed to get rid of the noxious weed before) subwassertang and monosolenium. 😵
 
As a general guide most plants that are 100% aquatic i.e. do not grow emersed are sensitive to liquid carbon products.

Vallisneria and Egeria spring to mind immediately.
 
Thanks have picked up crinium species and selling off all my vallis now.
 
Hi James

I have got Pogostemon helferi in my shrimp tank, where I am dosing double recomended amount of liquid carbon (AEC) from over 6 months and Pogostemon helferi is ok.
 
Ive found that pogo is fine with easycarbo.

I only wanted to buy some time before I invest in my co2 set up so using easy carbo as a simple means of seeing how it affect plant growth.
 
I slightly underdose with Easycarbo in a 65L tank with Water Wisteria, Crypts, Java fern, Amazon sword (to be replaced as it's not doing great) and Vallis and all are fine. Tank's been running for nine months, with the Vallis in for about one month.
The Crypts have grown like mad, and since I've had panda cory's in (which dig around the roots for food scraps) they've done even better. No probs with the Vallis either.

The proof is here - http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=9957
 
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