Right now inhibitants are an infestation of pond snails, 1x nerite snail, 7x assasin snails, 19 rummy nose tetras, 2 swordtails ( in the future i will remove them), 2x sterbai corydoras.
Future angelfish, more corys and some more tetras or harlequins.
That is coming along very well. You have had good growth in the crypts, that is your Flourite substrate working.
Have you thought about a couple of large plants that will grow up to the surface? I'm thinking along the lines of Echinodorus cordifolia, 2 would look stunning and also provide some surface cover which the rummys in particular would appreciate.
Nymphea Maculata seems that is not growing tall so i thought of moving it to left corner between Rotala Indica and Crypt (have to move crypt more to the front)
Instead of the Nymphea I will do something that grows a bit tall maybe another Echinodorus species as you suggested.
Also i have a few problems that are Vallisneria Spirals & Echinodorus Tenellus are not doing so well. Seems that few shoots are giving away and a lot of the old leaves are melting. What could be the cause?
Also i have a few problems that are Vallisneria Spirals & Echinodorus Tenellus are not doing so well. Seems that few shoots are giving away and a lot of the old leaves are melting. What could be the cause?
About NPK
So i have 12.5mg/l Nitrate and 0 Phosphate in my aquarium. Should I apply http://www.seachem.com/support/PlantDoseChart.pdf this method so that i could increase phosphate and nitrogen for plants?
I will not use Excel since I have co2 in my aquarium.
You mentioned about reducing the light, which is good esp for discus; floating plants also help to calm them. Your plants with the exception of the stem plants are fairly low-medium light. But you are dosing with CO2, and that means light has to balance or the CO2 is wasted (along with the other nutrient fertilizers). Plants can only use all this if it is balanced; we term it the limiting factor, which should always be light (to avoid algae issues) but reducing the light means there is then no need for the nutrients in such large amounts relatively speaking.
Some swords wold suit the discus, I mentioned some previously in this thread. Discus and angels occur in much the same type of habitat. But the two should never be combined in the same aquarium.
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