Over the past two weeks I've been doing weekly 50% water changes on my tank and I 've noticed my chain swords pearling for the first time while, everything else always pearls from my pressurized CO2.
It seems obvious that I need to add more CO2 but, it also raises two questions.
1. Does this mean my pygmy chain sword is not able to use CO2 until it reaches a higher concentration? Or rather, that it has a higher threshold than the other plants? I haven't heard this talked about very concisely before so I'm not sure what terms are usually used.
2. I have a pretty large stand of water sprite in my tank.....can this actually be detrimental to the balance of the tank? A couple of my plants, including my chain swords seem to be doing better since I've been keeping the water sprite at about half its usual size. Or is this just a problem of limiting nutrients?
I've just been wonder if it's silly to keep increasing the nutrients and CO2 just to feed the WS as a fast grower to keep algae at bay when maybe I could just take it out and everything else would possibly take up the slack.
It seems obvious that I need to add more CO2 but, it also raises two questions.
1. Does this mean my pygmy chain sword is not able to use CO2 until it reaches a higher concentration? Or rather, that it has a higher threshold than the other plants? I haven't heard this talked about very concisely before so I'm not sure what terms are usually used.
2. I have a pretty large stand of water sprite in my tank.....can this actually be detrimental to the balance of the tank? A couple of my plants, including my chain swords seem to be doing better since I've been keeping the water sprite at about half its usual size. Or is this just a problem of limiting nutrients?
I've just been wonder if it's silly to keep increasing the nutrients and CO2 just to feed the WS as a fast grower to keep algae at bay when maybe I could just take it out and everything else would possibly take up the slack.