Fertilizer sticks for terrestrial plants

[timuraydin]

Hello,

about 4 months ago, I had used 5 fertilizer sticks for terrestrial plants into the substrate of my tank (the substrate is aquaclay). After that, I have found out that these fertilizers contain vast amount of ammonioum in different forms. Right now, I am seeing brown, green and blue green algae on the gravel surface and at the gravel/glass boundary.

Can I somehow salvage the substrate, or should I just scrap it and rebuild the tank with new substrate?

 

[Mooner]

Hi Timur,

Please tell us what else you might be adding to your tank and what type of tank you are working toward (ie. non-CO2, Excel, CO2) This will help get you a answer.

I wouldn't throw out your substrate yet, somebody out there has had worse and was able to salvage the substrate (me )

 

[timuraydin]

My aim is to have a heavily planted high tech tank. I currently have pressurized CO2, 4xT8 lighting, eheim 2213 filter. I have temporarily augmented the filtering with an eheim 2008 internal filter until I get a more powerful external fillter (i am looking into getting an eheim 2028)

Right now I am doing spot treatment with an H2O2 filled injector.