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Plants dying quickly. Help needed please.
Your pH is so high it's off my chart, but anything over 8 means you have
virtually no CO2. No CO2 means poor plant growth.Under no circumstances be tempted to add a buffer to bring your pH down. These contain phosphate which is a disaster for algae. Just add CO2, the cheap yeast method is fine. This should kick your plants into life. I agree with the comments about your light. I would suggest 2 tubes. From then on, just watch your plants. Add an iron rich trace element mix for the micro nutrients, N and K for the macros, as you feel necessary. Don't add any aquarium plant food that contains phosphorous. Premature fish death is not normal. They should die of old age( after several years). I've kept freshwater tropicals (on and off) since the late 1960's, and it's only in the last 10 years or so that I've taken a greater interest in the plants, and I've found that with good plants and good water, the fish seem to look after themselves with no disease. In fact, my son still has some fish that he took to university with him 7 years ago ( and that's after 3 house moves). PS use fine sand and gravel. Plants can't root in rocks! "Tzeentch" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I have a 25 gallon Aquarium populated by Mollies, 4 of them at the time (2 adult (one of them born in the tank) and 2 young (2 months old, born in the tank)). I have never been able to keep the plants in the tank beautifull or even living for a period of more than 2 or 3 weeks. They all wither and die very rapidly once planted. It looks to me as if the roots or the bases of the plants near the root outside the gravel are rotting (althought that might be too strong a term). I've had 6 different varieties of plants, none of which survived very long. My fish seems to die a little bit too much also, although the salesman at the local fish store tells me this is normal. Here are the results of the most recent test: PH: 8.5 KH: 60 ppm (about 3.4, I beleive is the correct conversion) GH: 80 ppm (about 4.5, I beleive is the correct conversion) NH3/NH4 (ammonia): around 0.6 ppm (test kit doesn't give super precise result, so it's around 0.6ppm or maybe a little less) NO2 (Nitrite): 0.1 or less ppm NO3 (Nitrate): 5 or less ppm Neon is open 12 hours a day. No CO2 is added in the tank. I make a 25-40% water change every 7 to 9 days. Tap water is used for that purpose. I add some tap water conditioner (Nutrafin's Aquaplus) and a nitrifier (Nutrifin's Cycle) everytime I make a water change. So, what can I do in the immediate to remedy the situation, and what can I do in the long term to make sure this situation doesn't arise again? Thanks a whole lot for any help. |
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