Thanks Elaine.


"Elaine T" wrote in message
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Shagster wrote:
After reading your description, I think your Nitrogen deficiency more
accurately describes my situation..

I'll double check all of those readings again.... But if I recall, each
of them are low.. Maybe I need to UP my dosing of TMG???

I read somewhere that a 10,000 bulb doesn't really do anything for
plants... If that's accurate, then I really only have a 48 watt bulb at
6,700k... So that's only 1.4 watts per gallon.. Think that may be part
of the problem??


Thanks Elaine.

Troy

I don't think light is your problem. Lack of light usually causes
aquarium plants to collapse into a brown mush. ;-) Besides, my tank is
running at 10,000K - LFS told me they were putting in 5500K and put in
10,000K instead. I recently found this out when I had a look at the bulb,
planning to change it. My stem plants are growing well enough to require
pruning twice a month.

I looked up TMG, and it's only an iron/trace element fertilizer. You
should be dosing the TMG to get your iron up to at least 0.2 ppm. You'll
need to add nitrate separately, preferably as KN03. I suspect more
nitrate will fix your problems, as long as your phosphate is 0.25 ppm or
higher. If not, you'll need a bit of K2PO4 as well.

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