quayhouse
Seedling
Hi.
I recently bought some 'Giant Vallis' from my local aquatic shop which had been growing in one of their display tanks and over run it...just a tad.
I love the stuff, but in my aquarium the leaves are tuning from green to a less attractive bronze/gold/beige colour, its growth is strong with each leaf putting on more than a inch a day. But I want to keep it bright green from base to tip, any idea's what going wrong?
Tank is a 300l, with 200 watts from mixture of full spectrum T8's (all for growing plants), I have loam on the base and mixture of sand and JBL Manado, then few clay balls and about 30 JBL Balls (Kugeln) through the substraight, I use Dupla Plant 24 daily drops (6 a day) do a 40% weekly water change and then use Tetra Plantamin after water changes. Plus easycarbo everyday dosing about 10-15ml as lights go on. All the plants in the tank i.e. Java ferns, various crypts, red tiger lotus, spatterdock, amazon swords) are growing well and looking fab with not a spec of algae.
I plan on getting JBL CO2 u403 or m603 at the end of the month (wages dependant, would prefer the later!) I don't want to change my lighting as the tubes are pretty new oldest is 5 months old and even though its old school it works for pretty well for everything else 🙂
Any idea's what else I could try?
Thanks
I recently bought some 'Giant Vallis' from my local aquatic shop which had been growing in one of their display tanks and over run it...just a tad.
I love the stuff, but in my aquarium the leaves are tuning from green to a less attractive bronze/gold/beige colour, its growth is strong with each leaf putting on more than a inch a day. But I want to keep it bright green from base to tip, any idea's what going wrong?
Tank is a 300l, with 200 watts from mixture of full spectrum T8's (all for growing plants), I have loam on the base and mixture of sand and JBL Manado, then few clay balls and about 30 JBL Balls (Kugeln) through the substraight, I use Dupla Plant 24 daily drops (6 a day) do a 40% weekly water change and then use Tetra Plantamin after water changes. Plus easycarbo everyday dosing about 10-15ml as lights go on. All the plants in the tank i.e. Java ferns, various crypts, red tiger lotus, spatterdock, amazon swords) are growing well and looking fab with not a spec of algae.
I plan on getting JBL CO2 u403 or m603 at the end of the month (wages dependant, would prefer the later!) I don't want to change my lighting as the tubes are pretty new oldest is 5 months old and even though its old school it works for pretty well for everything else 🙂
Any idea's what else I could try?
Thanks
