Hello,
My almost carpeting HC recently seem to die off, become browning and then uprooting itself. My stem plants also seem to grow unhealthy, some of the stem like to broken off at its lower part. The water become opaque in this recent 2 weeks and have been doing several 50% WC and will be back opaque within 2-3 days. The tank age is almost 3,5 months. What is the best guess of the main cause?
FYI, tank size is 80x30x40cm with canister filter and additional small powerhead for extra flow. Light has been lowered to 2x21watt T5NO, the pressurized CO2 has been crank up a lot (maybe pass 40ppm) and I'm doing an EI dosing regime.
NO3 35ppm
PO4 2ppm
FE 0.5ppm
NH4 0ppm
NO2 0ppm
KH 1-2dkh
GH 1-2dgh
Temp 26-28C
Frankly speaking, for this setup, I re-use my mixed aquasoil with Sera and JBL that has been used for only 2 weeks in the previous setup. I dried it up on sun. Could this be the reason from what people called "anaerobic substrate", what is it exactly? I also noticed that my foreground powder type aquasoil become crushed into dust along with the dying HC. Please share your experience with me. Thank you very much.
My almost carpeting HC recently seem to die off, become browning and then uprooting itself. My stem plants also seem to grow unhealthy, some of the stem like to broken off at its lower part. The water become opaque in this recent 2 weeks and have been doing several 50% WC and will be back opaque within 2-3 days. The tank age is almost 3,5 months. What is the best guess of the main cause?
FYI, tank size is 80x30x40cm with canister filter and additional small powerhead for extra flow. Light has been lowered to 2x21watt T5NO, the pressurized CO2 has been crank up a lot (maybe pass 40ppm) and I'm doing an EI dosing regime.
NO3 35ppm
PO4 2ppm
FE 0.5ppm
NH4 0ppm
NO2 0ppm
KH 1-2dkh
GH 1-2dgh
Temp 26-28C
Frankly speaking, for this setup, I re-use my mixed aquasoil with Sera and JBL that has been used for only 2 weeks in the previous setup. I dried it up on sun. Could this be the reason from what people called "anaerobic substrate", what is it exactly? I also noticed that my foreground powder type aquasoil become crushed into dust along with the dying HC. Please share your experience with me. Thank you very much.