How To Make Plants Pearl?

[EliteFishy]

How do I make my plants perl? My CO2 is about 20ppm in my 29 gallon. I have 2x 65w plantgrowth lightbulbs. No fertilizers.

 

[IovaykInD]

Plants pearl if they are producing a lot of o2. Try using ferts then, it's the last thing you need ot make it pearl. What size is the tank, just because theres 130w doesn't mean that it's enough to make plants pearl.

 

[EliteFishy]

29 gallon

 

[anvil63]

It also depends on the plant, really slowly growing plants are much harder to get to pearl than quick growers.

Carl

 

[akudewan]

I think ferts should make them pearl. What plants do you have?

 

[George Farmer]

130W in a 29 Gallon is A LOT of light - 4.5 Watts per Gallon.

You need to keep your CO2 stable at around 30ppm ideally. You need to be planted heavily with fast growers if not already and you definitely need to be adding fertilisers, probably both macro and micronutrients.

Your plants will be starved of nutrients with that much light, this is why they're not pearling.

I strongly suggest you sort out some fertilisers otherwise you will be growing algae rather than plants.

Read the lighting, CO2, EI and algae pinned articles to understand more and how to balance your tank effectively.

I recommend you cut back on the lighting until you have sorted out a fertilising regime.

Best of luck.

 

[EliteFishy]

I have java ferns, riccia, amazon swords, anubias, and glosstiggmas.