Good morning to everybody,
Fisrt of all apologise me for my english if it is a little rusty. I´m Portuguese and not practicing this language as i intended.
This is my first post in the Barr Report so i´m gonna try no to be very extensive.
Problem: For two years now that all my planted tanks do MELT or my plants just grow but with a nasty color. The pictures below will speak for themselves.
This is my third plated tank and although I made changes (learning from mistakes) the problem still remains no matter what.
And i´m out of ideias of what could be the cause for this. So, I´m loosing faith and all I can do is to appeal for help. Hope you guys come up with a solution.
NOTE: I don´t have any algae in the glass, or those horrible filamentous or ciano bacter etc.
Here´s the layout and actual technical data.
Mounting date: September Eleven of 2014
Dimensions: 80x40x30 = 96 Litres
Light: Odyssea Dual Pro T5HO Series 90cm, 2x 39W ( 6500 Kelvins lamp and another of 4000 kelvins).
Filter: Eheim Eco Pro 300 / 750 Litres per Hour
Circulation Pump Sera 120 700/Litres per hour.
Lily Pypes de 13mm Rihnox
Difuser of 40 MM Rhinox
16 Litres of Tropica Substrate “Tropica Aquarium Soil”
ADA Bacter 100
50% weekly water change
Ei Estimative Index fertilization:
Bottle of 500ml
KNO3 - 26.09g
KH2PO4 - 4.3g
KCl - 8.87g
10 ML / day of Macros and 5 ML of Micros.
Fish: PLatys, Spades, Neons, Caridinas Japónicas, Red Shrimp, 3 Chanda Ranga.
PLants: Taxiphyllum Spiky / Eleocharis Parvula / Staurogyne Repens / Echinodorus Quadricostatus / Rotala Macrandra / Micranthemum Monte Carlo / Pogostemon Erectus / Limnophila Sessiflora
VALUES:
KH – 7
GH -12
Nitrites - 0
Amonia - 0
Nitrates - 10
Fhosfhates - 1
PH - 6,5
Co2- Maximum. Around 30/40 PPM
Photoperiod: 8 hours. The Co2 starts one hour earlier than the lights and closes one hour earlier to.
Fish food on a daily bases at the same hour.
Here´s some photos. They grow a LOT but in this color around and beneath them.
Fisrt i´m gonna show you pictures from a month ago so you can compare:
NOW the actual scenario...
A global view from a couple of weeks ago..
So.. i rest my case and hope you could come with ideias.
Yours truly
Paulo Soares
Fisrt of all apologise me for my english if it is a little rusty. I´m Portuguese and not practicing this language as i intended.
This is my first post in the Barr Report so i´m gonna try no to be very extensive.
Problem: For two years now that all my planted tanks do MELT or my plants just grow but with a nasty color. The pictures below will speak for themselves.
This is my third plated tank and although I made changes (learning from mistakes) the problem still remains no matter what.
And i´m out of ideias of what could be the cause for this. So, I´m loosing faith and all I can do is to appeal for help. Hope you guys come up with a solution.
NOTE: I don´t have any algae in the glass, or those horrible filamentous or ciano bacter etc.
Here´s the layout and actual technical data.
Mounting date: September Eleven of 2014
Dimensions: 80x40x30 = 96 Litres
Light: Odyssea Dual Pro T5HO Series 90cm, 2x 39W ( 6500 Kelvins lamp and another of 4000 kelvins).
Filter: Eheim Eco Pro 300 / 750 Litres per Hour
Circulation Pump Sera 120 700/Litres per hour.
Lily Pypes de 13mm Rihnox
Difuser of 40 MM Rhinox
16 Litres of Tropica Substrate “Tropica Aquarium Soil”
ADA Bacter 100
50% weekly water change
Ei Estimative Index fertilization:
Bottle of 500ml
KNO3 - 26.09g
KH2PO4 - 4.3g
KCl - 8.87g
10 ML / day of Macros and 5 ML of Micros.
Fish: PLatys, Spades, Neons, Caridinas Japónicas, Red Shrimp, 3 Chanda Ranga.
PLants: Taxiphyllum Spiky / Eleocharis Parvula / Staurogyne Repens / Echinodorus Quadricostatus / Rotala Macrandra / Micranthemum Monte Carlo / Pogostemon Erectus / Limnophila Sessiflora
VALUES:
KH – 7
GH -12
Nitrites - 0
Amonia - 0
Nitrates - 10
Fhosfhates - 1
PH - 6,5
Co2- Maximum. Around 30/40 PPM
Photoperiod: 8 hours. The Co2 starts one hour earlier than the lights and closes one hour earlier to.
Fish food on a daily bases at the same hour.
Here´s some photos. They grow a LOT but in this color around and beneath them.
Fisrt i´m gonna show you pictures from a month ago so you can compare:
NOW the actual scenario...
A global view from a couple of weeks ago..
So.. i rest my case and hope you could come with ideias.
Yours truly
Paulo Soares