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by Nb623
Tue Jun 09, 2020 19:46 pm
Forum: The Planted Aquarium
Topic: Plants still not going great 🤔
Replies: 4
Views: 761

Plants still not going great 🤔

A couple weeks back I posted about having no luck with my plants, and since then my last 2 stem plants have given up. I've been using tnc lite at 0.2ml every other day as suggested for my 25L tank. I'm going to get a CO2 diffuser I think, is the tropica plant growth system a good starting setup? I'm...
by Nb623
Sun May 24, 2020 11:59 am
Forum: The Planted Aquarium
Topic: Struggling with plants in shrimp tank
Replies: 13
Views: 1762

Re: Struggling with plants in shrimp tank

Ah okay, thanks for the replies. So if I brought the fertiliser mentioned, I'd be better adding 0.3ml a day rather than 2ml once a week? May look into CO2 diffusers more next month providing all goes well with fertiliser
by Nb623
Sun May 24, 2020 10:46 am
Forum: The Planted Aquarium
Topic: Struggling with plants in shrimp tank
Replies: 13
Views: 1762

Re: Struggling with plants in shrimp tank

So do most plants need added CO2? I've always been worried about messing up pH with it. The general hardness is 60ppm (mg/L) and 40ppm (mg/L) with pH 7. Sorry I dont really know much about aquarium plants, I've always seemed to get lucky and plants have just 'taken', not been the case in this tank t...
by Nb623
Sun May 24, 2020 8:41 am
Forum: The Planted Aquarium
Topic: Struggling with plants in shrimp tank
Replies: 13
Views: 1762

Struggling with plants in shrimp tank

Hi, I've just moved over from the old site, having trouble with my 25L shrimp tank. I think lighting may be the issue here but I recently brought 7 stem plants and slowly all of them have turned yellow and fallen apart (last one surviving is on the left but most of the leaves have gone). The plant o...