I moved my 300-litres tank to another smaller room apx 6 months ago. Therefore I don't tend to it as much as I used to. I sometimes forget doses but have managed to get somewhat good results anyway.
A couple of months ago I bought new wood at a local store. It looked very good from a design-point-of-view but I'm pretty sure it is some kind of non-soaked ordinary pine/spruce sand blastered kind of wood.
I didn't pre soak them and held them down with big boulders until they didn't float. No water coloration.
But they have leaked something white where the algae refuses to attach, but everywhere else it's totally infested with fur algae.
The problem is that the pearling is *totally* abscent after water change - where the plants normally pearl like crazy. The tank feels completely dead.
With a totally insane CO2-bubble rate where my fishes gasp by the surface and the pH-test is totally yellow below pH 6.0 (KH around 2,5) I get the plants to pearl reluctantly and previous weeds like H. polysperma Rosanervig and Myriopyllum mattogrossense doesn't grow nearly as good as before. My E. acicularis is very infested with BBA and Cladophora-like algae and I have patches of Cyanobacteria on some leaves.
After wc: 3 tsp CaCl2, 2 tsp MgSO4
Every other day: 1 tsp KNO3, 2.75 ppm-dose KH2PO4 (25 mls of a solution in a 200 ml bottle with 2 tsp KH2PO4) and 0.1 ppm Fe dose (30 mls of a solution in 300 ml bottle with 1 tsp CSM+B equivalent).
This dose is what have worked very good before. The tank is somewhat minimalistic with rather low plant mass (picture after wc with a copule of hours pruning and algae scrubbing):
Is the wood the cause, or do I dose to much with regards to plant mass? Why doesn't it pearl when I do a water change like it used to?
6x36 watts of 10K Philips Aquarelle TLD89 bulbs.
A couple of months ago I bought new wood at a local store. It looked very good from a design-point-of-view but I'm pretty sure it is some kind of non-soaked ordinary pine/spruce sand blastered kind of wood.
I didn't pre soak them and held them down with big boulders until they didn't float. No water coloration.
But they have leaked something white where the algae refuses to attach, but everywhere else it's totally infested with fur algae.
The problem is that the pearling is *totally* abscent after water change - where the plants normally pearl like crazy. The tank feels completely dead.
With a totally insane CO2-bubble rate where my fishes gasp by the surface and the pH-test is totally yellow below pH 6.0 (KH around 2,5) I get the plants to pearl reluctantly and previous weeds like H. polysperma Rosanervig and Myriopyllum mattogrossense doesn't grow nearly as good as before. My E. acicularis is very infested with BBA and Cladophora-like algae and I have patches of Cyanobacteria on some leaves.
After wc: 3 tsp CaCl2, 2 tsp MgSO4
Every other day: 1 tsp KNO3, 2.75 ppm-dose KH2PO4 (25 mls of a solution in a 200 ml bottle with 2 tsp KH2PO4) and 0.1 ppm Fe dose (30 mls of a solution in 300 ml bottle with 1 tsp CSM+B equivalent).
This dose is what have worked very good before. The tank is somewhat minimalistic with rather low plant mass (picture after wc with a copule of hours pruning and algae scrubbing):
Is the wood the cause, or do I dose to much with regards to plant mass? Why doesn't it pearl when I do a water change like it used to?
6x36 watts of 10K Philips Aquarelle TLD89 bulbs.
