The Plant Tank

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Some pinker/redder plants

  • pH:
  • Temp:
  • KH:
  • GH:
  • NH4:
  • NO2:
  • NO3:
  • PO4:
  • Iron:
  • Dosing: 10 mL Flourish, 25 mL Excel, 15 ppm NO3, 1.8 ppm PO4, 1 tsp MgSO4, 3 tsp CaSO4
  • NO3:PO4 Cumulative Dosing Ratio: 15:1.8 = 8.3

Notes:
Sucked up the fry into a separate container and did a 50% water change:
25 mL Amquel+
2.5 tsp baking soda
25 mL Excel
10 mL Flourish
1 tsp MgSO4
3 tsp CaSO4

This week, the tops of the L. repens have been getting nice and red, and some stems of the the R. indica have been nice and pink. Dosing a lot of micros (10 mL Flourish a day) seems to help with the coloring, along with some yet unknown relationship with either a lower GH or Mg/Ca amounts. There has been some improvement in the stunting of the Rotala, I will continue using the CaSO4 instead of the CaCl2 to see if the improvement continues.

Yesterday, the sick harlequin rasbora finally died. Today's headcount of fry is 13. It seems after every night, one of the fry will die. I don't know if it's because it couldn't go so long without a feeding (12 hours), or what. Large female shrimp sighted today.

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