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Hey everyone, i'm wondering why my plants don't seem to be pearling very well.
This is my setup
Tank - 33g long (48x12x12)
Lighting - t5ho 2x54w
Co2 - 10lb pressurized running through a rhinox 3000 ceramic diffuser (3-4bps), bubbles flow into the powerhead and get blasted around the tank.
Filtration - Rena XP1 and a hydor koralia 1 powerhead.
Substrate - Eco complete black
Lights are on for 10 hours a day, with a 2 hour break in the middle. Fertizling using the EI method, i am not however, using k2so4. I've read that you don't really need to add it?
Ive got 6 bunches of some type of Rotala, 4 bunches or some type of longer grass, and 8 pots of dwarf hairgrass, planted in about 150 small bunches, and 4 bunches of blyxa. I've noticed that the rotala ends up getting pearls, but only near the end of the day, after its had co2/light for almost 8 hours. The hairgrass hardly pearls at all. Hairgrass seems to have some new growth in the last few days, not much for the rotala, and the blyxa looks as if it is dieing off. What do you think the problem could be? I water change 50% once weekly, and im staying on top of the fertizling. I was having some issue with algae, but built some posts off the back of the tank to hang the lights higher off the surface. They were about 4-5" off the water, now they are about 12-14".
Any help or suggestions would be awesome.
Thanks a bunch, Tyson.
PS, I have had NO luck getting certain plants to survive. Had failed attempts with glosso, blyxa, and hc. The hc mostly got pulled up by the fish. I've tried blyxa over 5 times now, and can't even get it to survive for a month before dying and melting away.
This is my setup
Tank - 33g long (48x12x12)
Lighting - t5ho 2x54w
Co2 - 10lb pressurized running through a rhinox 3000 ceramic diffuser (3-4bps), bubbles flow into the powerhead and get blasted around the tank.
Filtration - Rena XP1 and a hydor koralia 1 powerhead.
Substrate - Eco complete black
Lights are on for 10 hours a day, with a 2 hour break in the middle. Fertizling using the EI method, i am not however, using k2so4. I've read that you don't really need to add it?
Ive got 6 bunches of some type of Rotala, 4 bunches or some type of longer grass, and 8 pots of dwarf hairgrass, planted in about 150 small bunches, and 4 bunches of blyxa. I've noticed that the rotala ends up getting pearls, but only near the end of the day, after its had co2/light for almost 8 hours. The hairgrass hardly pearls at all. Hairgrass seems to have some new growth in the last few days, not much for the rotala, and the blyxa looks as if it is dieing off. What do you think the problem could be? I water change 50% once weekly, and im staying on top of the fertizling. I was having some issue with algae, but built some posts off the back of the tank to hang the lights higher off the surface. They were about 4-5" off the water, now they are about 12-14".
Any help or suggestions would be awesome.
Thanks a bunch, Tyson.
PS, I have had NO luck getting certain plants to survive. Had failed attempts with glosso, blyxa, and hc. The hc mostly got pulled up by the fish. I've tried blyxa over 5 times now, and can't even get it to survive for a month before dying and melting away.