plantnoob
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some tank specs 1st . fluval roma 240 so 4ft 240L , lighting standard roma 2x40w t8 , soil substrate capped with sand . no pressurised co2 . planted the tank saturday and as expected leaves are starting to suffer . this i put down to the plants having to adapt from emeresed growth to submersed growth . nothing too major at the moment but deffinately happening . am i right in thinking that because they are in a non co2 injected tank , that this transition is going to be harder on them and therefore i can expect a fair bit more melt , but as long as new shoots show as well all should eventually be well? also just to check what i doing at this stage of things is along the right lines . photoperiod is being kept down to 6 hours . dosing 10ml of neutro co2 daily (twice the reccomeded dose o the bottle) and 25ml of neutro+ daily which is around 50% more than bottle suggests . at the same time im trying to not pull and cut at the plants too much but any leaves that are really bad im removing . for example the aponogeton ulvaceus did have 4 leaves around 3 or 4 inches but the completely melted so i removed them and now it is producing new growth already . in fact surprisingly quickly given the relative low energy of my system .