Revision17
Fish Fanatic
Tank:
20 gallons 30"x12" bottom
2x24W T5s
Nutrafin CO2
Using Seachem's Flourish EI thing
Reeeally bad green water
Plants:
Dwarf Sagittaria - about a dozen now
Amazon Sword - one
Fish:
8 emerald corydoras
4 guppies
3 burmese border loaches
Before the change I just had play sand. The Dwarf Sagittaria were sending off shoots and pearling like crazy.
Now I have a 1" layer of Shultz with another inch of sand on top of it. About 2 days after the substrate change really I got some pretty bad green water. A day after that a few of my dwarf swagittarias' leaves started turning transparent and brown. Another 2 days after that, new leaves in my Amazon Sword started to get dark veins. Today I cut off the brown transparent leaves from the sagittaria and removed a few which looked near dead (however a large minority, 35-40%, seem to be all green). The plants are still pearling.. just not as much as before.
I ordered a 25 watt UV sterilizer of justice today since I'm tired of getting green water outbreaks when I make changes.
Any ideas as to what is causing this? I can't seem to find these specific symptoms for what causes these in aquatic plants.
20 gallons 30"x12" bottom
2x24W T5s
Nutrafin CO2
Using Seachem's Flourish EI thing
Reeeally bad green water
Plants:
Dwarf Sagittaria - about a dozen now
Amazon Sword - one
Fish:
8 emerald corydoras
4 guppies
3 burmese border loaches
Before the change I just had play sand. The Dwarf Sagittaria were sending off shoots and pearling like crazy.
Now I have a 1" layer of Shultz with another inch of sand on top of it. About 2 days after the substrate change really I got some pretty bad green water. A day after that a few of my dwarf swagittarias' leaves started turning transparent and brown. Another 2 days after that, new leaves in my Amazon Sword started to get dark veins. Today I cut off the brown transparent leaves from the sagittaria and removed a few which looked near dead (however a large minority, 35-40%, seem to be all green). The plants are still pearling.. just not as much as before.
I ordered a 25 watt UV sterilizer of justice today since I'm tired of getting green water outbreaks when I make changes.
Any ideas as to what is causing this? I can't seem to find these specific symptoms for what causes these in aquatic plants.
