Danlyall1986
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Hello. I've had a low tech planted tank set up for around 3 weeks my tanks an ea freshwater 250 liters, i have 2 twinstar 900s lights set to 30% each (got two because i wanted a more even spread of light and the tanks quite wide) substrate is tropica soil and I'm feeding with tnc complete (dosing as instucted on bottle even tried dosing 2x) I'm also dosing chempak sequestered iron. Lighting is on for 7 hours. I can't seem to get any of my floating plants to grow and eventually they're turning brown and dying. Ive tried frog bit, currently trying salvinia aruticulata I've ive cut the surface agitation right down as they were being blown about, also now using the fishing line trick to pin them over 1 side of the tank but still no growth. All my plants otherwise are doing fairly well my anubias does have twisted new growth though so im wondering if my soils doing the job for my plants that are in it but anythingg relying on the water column ferts is struggling💁♂️ wondering if theres an issue with my water, would love someone to give me some feedback on my water report if poss as i cant really make sense of it (postcode is sk101dd water company is united utilities) any help would be much appreciated 🙏