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My 60p soft water

Djoko Sauza said:
The longer you let it grow the more satisfying it is to scrape off, talking from experience :D
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I'm looking forward to tomorrows water change! it's been bugging me all week.
 
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dosed some macros, micros upped to 0.075 fe as proxy weekly.
 
nice colours including the Wallichiis. Do you have a corner internal filter on the right of your tank? or are those nozzles something else?
 
erwin123 said:
nice colours including the Wallichiis. Do you have a corner internal filter on the right of your tank? or are those nozzles something else?
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thanks. yeah it's an internal for a bit of extra flow.
 
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minimal stunting:D. tank is far from perfect and is algae ridden, but the plants are starting to perk up!
 

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tank is growing obnoxiously fast.... some algae issues, even with green drop checker reduced co2 (1-2bps) and reduced flow. the staghorn is basically gone. now I have some grey-ish filament algae, gsa, gda and diatoms. quite the assortment eh? I have put down most my issues to too much N in water collumn, I am going back to just K and micro dosing.
 
staghorn completely gone, now am dealing with green hair algae, green spot algae, and green dust algae. The mediocre legacy™ continues!
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liking the ludwigia white. fish seem happy.

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cuphea is not looking too bad
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UGHH the stems look like trash.
 
recently have been considering adding one more school of fish to 'fully' stock the tank. was thinking sundadanio axelrodi, some small rasbora sp or nannostomus marginatus. would these fish species be alright with the gourami?
 
micros are currently tropica clone. at 0.08ppm Fe as proxy. working quite well. I believe lower non fe/mn micros is helping a lot especially with Ca deficiency. now K seems to be limited. so i did a small dose of 2ppm K, and will continue around 1ppm per week, this should be sufficient. bought some nh4no3, so will be experimenting with urea+nh4no3 combo. will prolly try a marschner recipe and tropica clone.
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ammania gold babbyyyyy
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cuphea lookin pretty and algae free on the new growth.
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mac is alright-ish. some stems stunted but some are growing well.
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erwin123 said:
Front left of your tank - is that a Ludwigia var 'Meta' ? Thinking of getting a few stems to try as well.
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I think you're refering to the ludwigia white? meta is not available in EU yet I don't think.
 
GHNelson said:
Where did you source this plant from?
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I was told it was salzmannii at the time, but not too sure at the moment,
submerged it looks a lot like colorata,
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anyway, I have been noticing some stunting after water changes.
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day after water change
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two daysafter water change.
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macrandra showed some splotchy green colours after water change, its resollved and isnt spreading.
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ammannia growing well, hope it continues like this.
 
This is just a thought. I used to see this years ago in my tank. It had to do with ferts bottoming out after a water change. You remove a large amount of water you remove a large amount of nutrients. Some species don't like the dip.

IME Macranda has more nutrient needs than Ammania, so no surprise Ammania shows no effect. If you notice the plants rebound as the days go on it's likely because nutrient levels are coming back.

To combat this many people dose the tank back up after a water change to keep levels stable. Personally I front end load all macros.

Again, just a thought. Could also be something completely different.
 
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