Author Topic: Need Help With Plants! Whats wrong?  (Read 4313 times)

Offline atmagoulick

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 145
  • Boots and Brass
    • Livonia
Re: Need Help With Plants! Whats wrong?
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2013, 04:36:19 PM »
This is my planted 10 gallon. The plants don't look very well and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong or what I need yo do to get them looking health... any help will be a big help!
I have had good luck with plants and 10 gallons.  Start with good lighting.  I use this one;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009YD8U6/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Offline Ogre44

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 201
    • Clawson
Re: Need Help With Plants! Whats wrong?
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2013, 05:49:57 PM »
Ogre I've looked at the Flourish Comprehensive myself before and didn't know if I should be adding that instead of, or maybe in addition to the Flourish Excel I already do?
The plants you have are all low light, slow growers so with heavy-ish stock, light planting, and regular water changes you might not need ferts at all.
My anubias throw up new leaves every couple of weeks on average, but I'm dosing the comprehensive 3 times a week for the swords and stems.
The Excel is the liquid CO2 supplement, and unless you have a lot of light and a really low bio load I'm not sure that you need it (I've never used it so this is purely opinion on my part).
Although I've read that it's also a bit of an algaecide in addition to the CO2 boosting so that might be worth it.

JMJ99:
I noticed that your swords are closer to the corner of the tank and your bulb mostly provides light to the center of the tank.
You might want to move the swords closer to the diffusion area under the bulb, and your watersprite can float if you need to get it closer to the light although this will shade the plants on the bottom of the aquarium.



Offline JMJ99

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 31
    • 49660
Re: Need Help With Plants! Whats wrong?
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2013, 09:33:14 AM »
Well it is starting to look a little better! I have one plant that is shooting off new growth. I have been leaving the light on for 12+ hours and I have been added more flourish like every other every third day. Now some little green alge spots are on the glass but I'm not to worried. I will try to get a different bulb again at PetSmart this weekend. Now when I cut the dead leaves off to I cut it right down at the base? Will it help to add more plants? Will it hurt and throw things off by moving plants and stuff around when I'm trying to clean things up?

Offline Ogre44

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 201
    • Clawson
Re: Need Help With Plants! Whats wrong?
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2013, 10:38:07 AM »
New growth is good  :)
I'd cut the leaves off as close to the main portion of the plant as possible.
If things are getting better I wouldn't move anything.
A 12 hour photoperiod is pretty long, algae growth suggests it's longer than you need so I'd cut back to say 9 hours and see how you do.