Edit: Now adding EasyCarbo and TNC Complete, need advice on accurate dosing, post added below.
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I'm not hugely into plants, I just prefer them to fake ones - as long as they're green and alive, and not brown and disintergrating, I'm happy.
Doing marvellously: Amazon sword, wisteria, bacopa, and after a brown shrivelled start, java fern.
Once doing well and now awful: Amazon frogbit and straight vallis. The frogbit was once covering half of the tank, with lovely long roots, but I've now removed the last of the tiny rotting yellow stalks and given up. The vallis used to grow and spread like a weed in my old tank under an 18w light - now it puts out new runners but they fade and shrivel away. I try to make sure the crown isn't covered but 8 corys don't help with that.
I have 2 x 45w t5 juwel lights on for 8 hrs a day. Dose liquid ferts which tend to vary depending on what's on offer when I buy it! Decent brands, follow the dosage.
Don't want to get into CO2.
Any suggestions for the best floating plant for me and an alternative/ideas for the vallis?
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I'm not hugely into plants, I just prefer them to fake ones - as long as they're green and alive, and not brown and disintergrating, I'm happy.
Doing marvellously: Amazon sword, wisteria, bacopa, and after a brown shrivelled start, java fern.
Once doing well and now awful: Amazon frogbit and straight vallis. The frogbit was once covering half of the tank, with lovely long roots, but I've now removed the last of the tiny rotting yellow stalks and given up. The vallis used to grow and spread like a weed in my old tank under an 18w light - now it puts out new runners but they fade and shrivel away. I try to make sure the crown isn't covered but 8 corys don't help with that.
I have 2 x 45w t5 juwel lights on for 8 hrs a day. Dose liquid ferts which tend to vary depending on what's on offer when I buy it! Decent brands, follow the dosage.
Don't want to get into CO2.
Any suggestions for the best floating plant for me and an alternative/ideas for the vallis?