Whats Wrong? ( Pics Inside! )

[riggs111]

hey all!!

bought some plants not so long ago and planted them into my sand substrate with crushed tetra flora tabs and been dosing them with 1 ml easy life carbo and 2 ml easy life profito ( only just increased profito from 5ml a week to 2ml a day)

what am i doing wrong for my plants to be turning like this??

also i have a 64L tank with 2x 15w daylight bulbs

hope you can help...dont want to lose them

adam

 

[KittyKat]

It could be as simple as non aquatic leaves dying off, but I am sure someone will be able to give you a better diagnosis soon.

 

[RadaR]

Swords are very nutrient hungry plants. Looks like nutrient deficiency.
Because you are dosing Easycarbo, you should also be dosing macro nutrients (NPK). This is because an increase in carbon also increases the plant's demand for nutrients. Plants need macro nutrients in larger concentrations that they do for micro nutrients (trace elements). Your Profito has trace elements and potassium, but no N+P.

 

[riggs111]

ok thanks very much for the advice and help....sorry to be stupid tho but whats n+p??
adam

 

[PDSimon]

nitrate and phosphate the main nutrients that plants intake

 

[riggs111]

ah ok then....can you get those products mixed together as a liquid? or do i have to buy nitrate and phosphate seperately? any reccomended products?
adam

 

[PDSimon]

Sometimes fish waste can be enough to provide plants with n and p but big plants often have a large uptake.

The most popular products I come across are the easylife range and tropica plant nutrition.

The easylife range has the profito which you dose but it also has fosfo (phosphate..) nitro (nitrate) which are the main ones, and then you can add more micro nutrients which are in the profito for more serious business lol... they are potassium, iron and something else.

The other one is tropica plant nutrition (TPN) which is the same as profito really, except you can get TPN+ which has everything you need in one bottle, rather than seperate ones like the easylife range.

If I'd go with TPN+. I prefer it to be honest. I'd keep dosing the easycarbo too

 

[Twinklecaz]

Im paying attention to this post coz your plants look similar to how some of mine did (some looked loads worse) and I dosed TPN+ and Easy Carbo every day. Gave up about 6 weeks ago and bought silk plants

Hi Simon by the way!

 

[PDSimon]

hello

How much were you dosing caz?

 

[codheadjohn]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I had a very similar problem which went further and my swords lost almost all of their leaves and the lillies did too. Started dosing King British aquatic plant food (is this micro nutrients?) and it halted the rapid decay and they've started to grow much better. I was dosing every 2 weeks, but just read that it's better to split the dose so am doing it every other day now.

Now several of the plants are getting small holes in the leaves, is this still lack of nutrients or something else?

Also my Vallis which was growing lovely without even any nutrients decided to go a dark green and every single leaf has came off now. It's started growing back very slowly, but will take months until it gets back to how it was.

What should I be dosing?

 

[riggs111]

I know this is annoying.!! There not very easy to care for seeing ad though they are easy care plants..!! Hopefully someone will know exactly what my plants need.!!
Adam

 

[Twinklecaz]

hello

How much were you dosing caz?

1ml of EC and 2ml of TPN+ .

Thinking of going back to live plants now though coz the silk ones always look filthy. When I work out what I was doing wrong that is lol.

 

[PDSimon]

Upping the TPN+ to 3 maybe even 4 and the EC to ~2 might help if it was a deficiency

How long are your lights on for Caz and Riggs?

 

[riggs111]

My lights are on from 230 until 1030 everyday and i dose 1ml carbo and 2ml of profito daily, what do you recommend to use or do??sorry
Adam

 

[PDSimon]

Maybe consider lowering it down to 6 or 7 hours per day until things get back on track. As previously stated it might just be non aquatic leaves dying off though. Cut the leaves that are dying off as they won't repair...

As I previously mentioned, i'd go with Tropica Plant Nutrition Plus... the plus bit is important. If you do get that, check the back but its probably around 2-3ml per day