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 set up a 10 gallon tank a few weeks ago and found out that the ammonia levels are to high they are a 8.0 ppm. About a week ago I went to a well known fish store and got some reverse osmosis water(which has no nutrients or anything in it), I completely drained my tank and put this water in instead. I also put some root tabs in so that my plants won’t die in the process. The ph level is around a 7 temp is about 82-86 f. I have NO fish in the tank why is this happening?
As of now my plants are still alive, the only thing that I added was a bacteria supplement to jump start my tank.
Tagged as: ammonia levels, fish store, gallon tank, nutrients, ph level, plants, ppm, reverse osmosis water, tabs
