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After reading up I believe this is a calcium deficiency? I dose macros and micros only once a week each. I do have barrs gh booster, so maybe start dosing the tank with this as well weekly?
Yikes. That is probably not a good idea! Your water source must have fairly low levels of chlorine when it reaches your house otherwise you'd likely lose fish and burn plants. Best to add dechlor every time you do a water change or remove it in some other way, it really isn't good for living things.I usually do a 50% water change weekly. And honestly once my tanks have been going for a few months I never add dechlorinator. And the could be why my dirted tank is like that. I just too off straight tap.
I'd hold off on adding the GH booster for now. Give the plants a week or two to recover from the chlorine. I bet you'll see improvements in the new growth. If you add calcium now and dechlor and the plants recover we won't know which caused the plants to respond and I will be unable to add it to the Deficiency Finder. Furthermore, there is no reason to add extra calcium unless you have to. A low GH value is preferable especially for Ammania and Rotala species.If I wanted to add the gh booster how do u think I should dose it since I only dose weekly. But the tanks I've had over the last year I've never seen this happen before and like I've said I didn't use the dechlorinator. So I'll give it a shout