The water looks pretty clear to me.
For your plants, what light do you have? Are you enriching with CO2? Fert regime?
For your plants, what light do you have? Are you enriching with CO2? Fert regime?
I'm trying to keep everything low tech, low maintence type of deal. Lighting wise I have a hd twin tube T8 diamond plate fixture. For ferts I dose flourish comp. twice a week, excel twice a week. I also have a bottle of flourish potassium which I'm assuming what the problem is. But it's odd because nearly every plant in the tank is lacking full leaves or healthy looking growth. I haven't had this problem before to this degree. Something must be out of balance, curious to see what you think. To be honest there are really no plants in my tank that are thriving besides my jungle val and rotala. No pressurized co2 as I'm trying to keep everything low maintenance and I'm on a tight budget.The water looks pretty clear to me.
For your plants, what light do you have? Are you enriching with CO2? Fert regime?
I have two bulbs running the length of the tank, a 6700k and I'll be picking up a 10,000k today to help boost the color of my fish. Let me know if you think the lighting is to low. I also have sponge pre filters on both intakes.Do you have any sponge prefilters on your filter intakes? That might boost your mechanical filtration and help with the particles your're seeing.
Did I understand you correctly that you've only got 2 T8 bulbs over this 75gal tank? Is that one row consisting of 2 bulbs, or two rows of bulbs that run the length of the tank?
Okay, well would the 4 bulb T8 shop light still give me the option of running no co2? I figured since the reflectors on the diamond plate would give me enough to support low - med light plants. I feel like a 3 bulb would be perfect, any ideas on shop lights for them? I live by a lowes I could go have a look later today.For a 75g I would want at least 3x 32W T8. You can to 4 even and get in a simple shop light powered with GE 10000k bulbs from HD.
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Just a stab at your issues.I have two bulbs running the length of the tank, a 6700k and I'll be picking up a 10,000k today to help boost the color of my fish. Let me know if you think the lighting is to low. I also have sponge pre filters on both intakes.
Key to controlling intensity.I run 2x54 watts of T5HO on my 90gal and it's right on the edge of needing CO2. But mine is also a Catalina fixture with good reflectors, so that makes a difference.
You should be able to work with that, though. You can always raise the fixture higher or use floating plants if its too much light.