Hi all,
Hi,
My 240g set up was working quite well, but it has deteriorated in the last 3 months, all my E. Tellenus are far gone, crypto leaves are melting down and big swords are losing leaves left and right.
The tank has been established for about 2 years, plants were growing a good pace and did not show any nutrient deficiency until this problem hit me.
I have now a brownish and green slime on the walks and sword leaves. It is easily removable by hand scrapping, in some instances grows into small hairy areas. I tried several things in the last two months, but unsuccessfully. I thought I figured it out about 15 days ago when I discovered that KH was too low. I figured it was a CO2 deficiency. I don't use any fertilization regime. I use pressurized Co2 and lighting is pretty basic: 6 39W flourecent 6400k (these are about 3 years old)
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Details
Volume: 240Gallon
Lighting: 6 X 39watts bulbs
Substrate: play grown sand
CO2 system injection
Current Readings
pH: 6.4 to 6.2
KH: 7, since 15 days ago
GH: 9DH
Do you think I have something more than CO2 deficiency? The brown spots in my Kleiner Bar swords appeared after I increased the Co2, is this a signed that I did something wrong? I attached seem pictures as reference.
Any help is highly appreciated it.
Hi,
My 240g set up was working quite well, but it has deteriorated in the last 3 months, all my E. Tellenus are far gone, crypto leaves are melting down and big swords are losing leaves left and right.
The tank has been established for about 2 years, plants were growing a good pace and did not show any nutrient deficiency until this problem hit me.
I have now a brownish and green slime on the walks and sword leaves. It is easily removable by hand scrapping, in some instances grows into small hairy areas. I tried several things in the last two months, but unsuccessfully. I thought I figured it out about 15 days ago when I discovered that KH was too low. I figured it was a CO2 deficiency. I don't use any fertilization regime. I use pressurized Co2 and lighting is pretty basic: 6 39W flourecent 6400k (these are about 3 years old)
.
Details
Volume: 240Gallon
Lighting: 6 X 39watts bulbs
Substrate: play grown sand
CO2 system injection
Current Readings
pH: 6.4 to 6.2
KH: 7, since 15 days ago
GH: 9DH
Do you think I have something more than CO2 deficiency? The brown spots in my Kleiner Bar swords appeared after I increased the Co2, is this a signed that I did something wrong? I attached seem pictures as reference.
Any help is highly appreciated it.