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Posted by Eric on April 11, 2006, 1:58 am
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:09:52 -0500, Charles wrote
> In a 55G tank I used RUGF and also added a couple airstones while I
> had a couple goldfish in there. Plants were doing poorly, a sword
> plant growing smaller and smaller, anubius covered with algae, java
> fern slowly dying.
Was it RUGF over the whole area of the tank floor? If so I think your roots
were overly oxygenated and the plants grew too much root and not enough
leaves. I don't know why this would have affected the Java fern though.
> I added a new light fixture, one split with 6400 and 10,000 degree
> bulbs, algae went wild.
No wonder, plants like lights more toward the red end of the spectrum.
-E
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:09:52 -0500, Charles wrote
> In a 55G tank I used RUGF and also added a couple airstones while I
> had a couple goldfish in there. Plants were doing poorly, a sword
> plant growing smaller and smaller, anubius covered with algae, java
> fern slowly dying.
Was it RUGF over the whole area of the tank floor? If so I think your roots
were overly oxygenated and the plants grew too much root and not enough
leaves. I don't know why this would have affected the Java fern though.
> I added a new light fixture, one split with 6400 and 10,000 degree
> bulbs, algae went wild.
No wonder, plants like lights more toward the red end of the spectrum.
-E
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> had a couple goldfish in there. Plants were doing poorly, a sword
> plant growing smaller and smaller, anubius covered with algae, java
> fern slowly dying.