Ok I know I did something to cause this but I don't know what or what to do about it. Here's what I did.
Three days ago I decided to do a major pruning of my tank. It was basically one solid mass of hygrophila with some other plants growing in the shade of it. Also I upgraded my lighting ODNO from 1.25 watts/gallon to probably around 2wpg. In the process, I had to remove all the plants from the tank and then sort them out and prune out some nice pieces to put back in. I threw out probably half the plant mass in the process.
CO2 has been at pretty stable but low levels, right now according to my 4KH drop checker it's probably around 15ppm, perhaps a bit higher than it has been in the past.
I also did a 50% water change which would have temporarily reduced co2 levels and diy is slow catching up. I also started dosing calcium chloride for the first time as well since my tap water has 0 GH, and my nitrates are higher than normal right now since I dosed a lot, I wasn't sure what the uptake would be with the higher lighting (~40ppm). At the same time of the water change I dosed potassium, phosphate, Plantex CSM+B and magnesium as I normally do.
Now I'm seeing leaves starting to die off. My instinct is that it's CO2 related, but at the same time I've had low co2 for a long time and haven't had these issues before. Also my ludwigia which was growing like mad up until the pruning has now lost most of it's leaves, another ludwigia plant all the leaves went transparent looking and I had to throw it out. At the same time, some of the hygro is pearling now and I've only had the lights on for an hour so far this morning. Also my Alternathera rosaefolia which I just added to the tank is showing some color loss, almost like color flaking off, on the undersides of some of the leaves.
What's up with this??? Could it be from having the plants out of the tank? Should I reduce or increase the photoperiod? Should I dose anything else? I'm working on CO2 as much as I can.
Three days ago I decided to do a major pruning of my tank. It was basically one solid mass of hygrophila with some other plants growing in the shade of it. Also I upgraded my lighting ODNO from 1.25 watts/gallon to probably around 2wpg. In the process, I had to remove all the plants from the tank and then sort them out and prune out some nice pieces to put back in. I threw out probably half the plant mass in the process.
CO2 has been at pretty stable but low levels, right now according to my 4KH drop checker it's probably around 15ppm, perhaps a bit higher than it has been in the past.
I also did a 50% water change which would have temporarily reduced co2 levels and diy is slow catching up. I also started dosing calcium chloride for the first time as well since my tap water has 0 GH, and my nitrates are higher than normal right now since I dosed a lot, I wasn't sure what the uptake would be with the higher lighting (~40ppm). At the same time of the water change I dosed potassium, phosphate, Plantex CSM+B and magnesium as I normally do.
Now I'm seeing leaves starting to die off. My instinct is that it's CO2 related, but at the same time I've had low co2 for a long time and haven't had these issues before. Also my ludwigia which was growing like mad up until the pruning has now lost most of it's leaves, another ludwigia plant all the leaves went transparent looking and I had to throw it out. At the same time, some of the hygro is pearling now and I've only had the lights on for an hour so far this morning. Also my Alternathera rosaefolia which I just added to the tank is showing some color loss, almost like color flaking off, on the undersides of some of the leaves.
What's up with this??? Could it be from having the plants out of the tank? Should I reduce or increase the photoperiod? Should I dose anything else? I'm working on CO2 as much as I can.