My plants in my 29 gallon have always done ok but that's it just okay. I have been having problems with my floaters in this tank for awhile now. At the moment they are Water Sprite and Frogbit. They grow slow and the surface always gets surface scum on it. I can run an air stone in the middle and it helps with scum but the plants don't seem to like it.
This is only in my 29 tank. My other tanks have Water sprite and don't have an issue. All the tanks get the right amount if Flourish Comprehensive 2x weekly. Everything is the same except the fish load.
Soo I was thinking that's the difference. In the 29 its just 1 Dwarf puffer and some shrimp. The other tanks each have at least 10+ fish or dozens of snails to produce waste. Not to mention fish food. The puffer is target feed worms so no fish food is wasted. So this tank has very little bioload from fish or waste from food. We all know all that is transferred to plant food.
So my question is in this situation would it be better to add something like Seachems Trace nutrients or even do a Dry ferts regime??
I ask this cause that's the only difference I can see to why there would be a problem. Because in all honesty none of my tanks have surface movement but yet the 29 always gets surface scum. The Air stone helped with that like I said but I took it out cause it was moving the plants to much to my liken. I could throttle it down but then it defeated the propose altogether and I was back to square one again.
Any thoughts on the matter??
This is only in my 29 tank. My other tanks have Water sprite and don't have an issue. All the tanks get the right amount if Flourish Comprehensive 2x weekly. Everything is the same except the fish load.
Soo I was thinking that's the difference. In the 29 its just 1 Dwarf puffer and some shrimp. The other tanks each have at least 10+ fish or dozens of snails to produce waste. Not to mention fish food. The puffer is target feed worms so no fish food is wasted. So this tank has very little bioload from fish or waste from food. We all know all that is transferred to plant food.
So my question is in this situation would it be better to add something like Seachems Trace nutrients or even do a Dry ferts regime??
I ask this cause that's the only difference I can see to why there would be a problem. Because in all honesty none of my tanks have surface movement but yet the 29 always gets surface scum. The Air stone helped with that like I said but I took it out cause it was moving the plants to much to my liken. I could throttle it down but then it defeated the propose altogether and I was back to square one again.
Any thoughts on the matter??