Plant growth

[john arnold]

hey

New tank 800x40x450, twinstar600ae, using fertz from aquariumplantfood.co.uk, lights pn 7 hours day pressirised co2, now got hair algae and diatoms which i expect from new tank but the plant growth seems to be slow even on a stem plant, im increasing light to 8 hrs now its 4 weeks and a bit old, light is about 3 inches above water, the monte carlo is growing slowly but takoing longtime to root in the tropica aquarium soil i put in, just seems to be slow growth, reckon i should lower the light or ? Or am i being impatient, the diatomes are quite bad a moment

 

[Edvet]

As long as the plants are healthy i would be patient, just keep doing maintenance, removing the algea and do waterchanges.

 

[foxfish]

Do you have any fish in the tank... if not just turn up the gas.

 

[john arnold]

YeAh i kinda figured i was being impatient, cheers,
I do have fish

Cheers all

 

[john arnold]

Just a quick question, ha , i bought some purigen for my other tank but then thought if that tkes out nitrates and im putting nitrates in with the fertz then does that not counteract what im doing.?

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

i bought some purigen for my other tank but then thought if that tkes out nitrates and im putting nitrates in with the fertz then does that not counteract what im doing

No you are fine. Purigen doesn't remove nitrate ions (NO3-) from solution. When you add potassium nitrate (KNO3), even as a dry salt, it is really soluble and just you've added K+ and NO3- ions.

Purigen removes "organic wastes", potentially some proportion of these would be protein based and would eventually be converted to nitrate via nitrification.

I'm usually not very keen on <"Seachem's description of how their products work">, but in this case, their reply in <"Purigen and what it does"> looks about right.

cheers Darrel

 

[john arnold]

Hey

Thanks man thats good news, as i cleaned filter all nice and the pouch fitted in perfect

Cheers