The veins are turning brown on my aquatic Amazonian sword plant’s leaves, making them crinkle. However, the leaves are a lovely shade of green and seem more or less healthy. Is there not enough light? Because I only have a normal output fluorescent bulb.
I use root tabs for iron supplement and fertilizer. The roots are healthy, and the leaves seem to have plenty of chlorophyll. The CO2 is sufficient. My tank isn’t overcrowded (3 swordtail fish and 2 angel fish) nor is anything else unhealthy. No snails.
My tap water has medium-high pH, a good buffer (high alkalinity–not related to pH), and high hardness. I mix this 50/50 with reverse-osmosis water, which has any dissolved materials filtered out.
Tagged as: angel fish, co2, fertilizer, high alkalinity, iron supplement, reverse osmosis water, roots, snails, sword, swordtail fish, tabs, tank, tap water, veins
I have 55 gallon saltwater tank.I have live rocks,2 clowns,2 damsels, 1star fish, and 4 snails.I just bought RO and wanted to do 20% water change.
I put RO water in a big garbage container and put salt ( Bought from big als)in it, checked the salt sal. and it was correct. and kept it for overnight.
I am still afraid to do the 20% water change,please tell me if what I have done till now is correct or wrong.
Tagged as: big als, clowns, fish, garbage container, rocks, sal, saltwater tank, snails, water change
I bought a 12 gallon JBJ nano cube from this guy who had to move out of state and I had a few questions. For one he told me that the algae in the tank is good for the tank but ive heard other wise. He told me the salt doesnt evaporate so I should just top it off with tapwater. I did some research and bought some dechlorinator for the tap water but i was told the other day that the phosphate in the tap water is causing algae to grow and i should be using reverse osmosis water instead. Is this true? I also only have a clown fish, firetail blenny, 1 hermit crab, and a few miniscule snails. Should i get a larger snail or two and maybe a shrimp. Help me please.
As far as the Nano Cube goes. I just want to make sure I’m doing all maintainance right. In the back I have the Sponges, and a bag with what i assume to be active carbon in it. The guy i bought it from put filter fiber on top of the sponges and said i should replace every month of so. He didnt mention anything about replacing the sponges or the active carbon bag and im not even sure the filter fiber thing is right. can anyone help me out please!
Tagged as: active carbon, algae, clown fish, dechlorinator, hermit crab, nano cube, phosphate, reverse osmosis water, shrimp, snail, snails, sponges, tank, tap water, tapwater
