Problems with Rosefoila

[Dazzer87]

Hi everyone, Newbie here looking for some advice. I setup a 4ft tank about 6 months back and in preparation for the new lighting which I installed last week; ( 2x54w Plant pro and 2x54w freshwater pro ) tubes totaling around 15,000 lumens over the 216 watts T5 (room currently Very bright! 😎, I used John innes No.3 which I washed and dried a few times and capped with sand mixed with small gravel. The tank sat with just 2 amazon swords and a dim tube until now and I have started planting it up. All seems ok except 1 plant that is not doing very well at all atm.


^failing rosefolia

(plant above with white veins is just the pattern not a deficiency, cant remember the name of it)
as you can see the leaves are very twisted with shades of green and yellow. The other plants are doing well bar a couple of the amazon leaves have slightly twisted. Could anyone point to what I'm missing here to make it grow. The amazons and other plants have all started to come though with red leaves and seem healthy but the only plant that's meant to be red looks like %$&**.

I haven't got a proper fertilizer routine setup yet! I have a bottle of API leaf zone that came with my tank so I have put a weeks worth of that in the tank but that hasn't really done anything.
My tank has a reasonable amount of flow with spraybar that has an Eheim 2213 (250L) and Eco pro (300L) with a hydor 2800lhr powerhead. I have a light surface agitation from the spray bar no co2 injection atm and lights have been on for 12hrs but I have reduced that too 8 now but hasnt changed plant situation.

Water stats

Nitrate out the tap is 30, and in the tank around 40ppm
Ph is 6.6 / 6.7
Phosphate comes out the tap around 6/7ppm

cheers daz.

 

[ceg4048]

216 watts T5

plus

no co2 injection atm

Equals disaster. Deformed leaves are only the beginning of your problems with that combination.

Cheers,

 

[Dazzer87]

Ok thanks, I'm working on co2. The lights are done with two controllers so I can set maybe a burst time and turn two tubes off etc

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[DTL]

Unless you have an unusually deep tank, you don't really need the 4 x 54W tubes, even with CO2.
I started off with this same combo on my 280L and cut back to 2 tubes about three months ago.
The plants are still doing great, and I have much less issues with algae, etc.

 

[Dazzer87]

Thanks guys, always a bit of trial an error planning these things. Will save me some leci then and see if the plant grows 🙂.

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