I think I may have made more than one mistake here but just in case anyone has any advice that will save some plants...
120G (US) 48x24x24 tank, NuClear filter with pump. Ecco Complete substrate. 330 Watts of PC lighting using AHSupplies extremely bright reflectors. Co2 is not setup yet as my tank hasn't arrived. My pump seems to drain my overflow fairly low and churn a bit of air into the tank.
I planted the following:
Telenthera or Red Temple, Kleiner Bar Sword, Bacopa, Ludwigia, Anubis Nana, Becketii, Micro Sword Grass, and Red-Spot Ozelot. I added some flourish after planting.
The plants I recieved had a large population of snails and hair algae on them so I did a bleach dip. Looks like that was not a good idea for quite a few of my plants as quite a few leaves have "melted" away. I rinsed the plants using Prime and added Prime to tank as well. I have not done a water change in 5 days and the nitrite level is rather high at over 5ppm, ammonia was 0, PH was 7.5 and I do not have test kits for nitrate.
Suggestions welcome.
Tom L
120G (US) 48x24x24 tank, NuClear filter with pump. Ecco Complete substrate. 330 Watts of PC lighting using AHSupplies extremely bright reflectors. Co2 is not setup yet as my tank hasn't arrived. My pump seems to drain my overflow fairly low and churn a bit of air into the tank.
I planted the following:
Telenthera or Red Temple, Kleiner Bar Sword, Bacopa, Ludwigia, Anubis Nana, Becketii, Micro Sword Grass, and Red-Spot Ozelot. I added some flourish after planting.
The plants I recieved had a large population of snails and hair algae on them so I did a bleach dip. Looks like that was not a good idea for quite a few of my plants as quite a few leaves have "melted" away. I rinsed the plants using Prime and added Prime to tank as well. I have not done a water change in 5 days and the nitrite level is rather high at over 5ppm, ammonia was 0, PH was 7.5 and I do not have test kits for nitrate.
Suggestions welcome.
Tom L