[DaveP1982]

Hi all, I was hoping to be able to draw on the expertise here to identify some plants I picked up from the LFS. There are three different types of plant one of which I am pretty sure is Bacopa Caroliniana? The sword type plant and the bushy green plant is doing fine after a week. I lost all the bacopa after a week all the leaves fell off and the stems floated to the top all brown and gunky. I have since set up diy co2 and thought I would give them another try. This time I bought 3 bunches and seperated them into 3 stem groups and removed the bottom inch of leaves before weighting and planting. Tank is 15 gallons, ph was 7.4 but is now 6.6 with co2. Kh is 5 gh is 10. Temperature is 25c. Substrate is sand. Lighting is 2 x 15 watt Interpet bulbs (one bright day white one cool blue moon) running simultaneously. Lighting is on for 12 hours a day and I run airstone overnight. I dose weekly with Interpet Flora Boost. If anyone can give me any pointers that would be great thank you

 

[The Trigger]

Need pics

 

[DaveP1982]

Oops thought they had uploaded - just edited them in

 

[Raymond S.]

Cut the light to 9.5 hrs. Not familiar/w that brand bulbs...do they have a K rating ?
The blue one is not good for plants unless 460nm. Most blue are 420nm.
http://www.aqua-fish.net/show.php?h=bacopacaroliniana
You may not have enough light for this plant but experience is better at letting youknow this so I'll le someone who has them tell you if they can be grown in your light.

 

[DaveP1982]

I've never been able to find a k rating anywhere online for these bulbs. May I ask why you suggest 9.5 hours for lighting?

 

[DaveP1982]

I have available a 30" 25watt interpet "beauty light plus" t8 bulb. It is bigger than my tank and I have no way of hanging it over my tank as it is a closed hood but could I rest this bulb on the ledge behind my tank? would this help in conjunction with the other overhead lights?

 

[DaveP1982]

This is how it looks - it is resting of a ledge about 5 inches behind tank - will this do anything other than dazzle the fish?

 

[DaveP1982]

I had trouble uploading images here so tried a hosting site hopefuly people can see them now?

 

[The Trigger]

I still can't lol. Upload them to imgur or photobucket and than use the link that says message boards & forums. Should have

 

[JMN16150]

Can you try to get a better pic of the one on the left? The other two are dwarf sag/ saggitaria subulata and water hyssop/ bacopa monnieri.

 

[DaveP1982]

Great thanks for the ID's Here is a closer pic of the third plant type

 

[Raymond S.]

The 9.5 is what I have been able to "get away with" without having algae issues.
The algae usually takes months to develope unless very intense bulbsare being used
but then appears to get out of hand overnight and they say "I've been having these lights on for this amont of time for months and it didn't do this before."
But it took that long to develope. Unless the bulbs are noticeably poor in the amount of light they deliver. Two of the first one that you mentioned likely would cause algae if on for that long of time each day.

 

[DaveP1982]

Maybe it shows how poor the interpet bulbs are as I've never ever had any algae with 2 x 15 watt bulbs even in a 10 gallon and always had 12 hour lighting schedule...but never had any luck keeping plants alive! Guess some better lighting is next on shopping list

 

[DaveP1982]

So that's two of the plants taken care of can anyone recognise the third one?

 

[daniel97]

it looks like green rotala wallichii
have you got a substrate for the plants?

 

[DaveP1982]

it looks like green rotala wallichii
have you got a substrate for the plants?

Hmm..not sure that is it but thanks for looking - I will try and get a better pic of it tomorrow And for substrate I just have regular aquarium sand from lfs.