I'm just trying to figure out if I'm doing anything wrong. The tank has been running just under 3 weeks and things just aren't looking too good. The tank is a 29 gallon with a 24 inch 2 bulb Odyssea t5HO fixture with 6500K Ge bulbs. Its only running on one bulb now to keep it low light.
We dose excel daily, flora pride weekly and added root tabs on 9-15. We are using eco-complete substrate with a thin layer of black sand on top
Our annubis, amazon sword, and primrose all have brown and green algae growing on the leaves and the annubis also has a little brush algae on its leaves (it got it when it was in our last tank), but the brush is slowly going away since dosing excel. The 2 crypts seems to be doing ok and the green crypt has even grown a little, but they too also have a little algae on the leaves. The only thing doing great are the java ferns.
Our annarchis is looking bad, but I know it doesn't do well with excel so it will be transferred to another tank soon.
Here are some pictures.
I'm not sure if there is actually problem, or if the tank is just young and things still need to settle in and I'm just overreacting, lol.
Its our 1st true attempt at a planted and I want to make sure I'm doing it right from the start. Thank you for any input
We dose excel daily, flora pride weekly and added root tabs on 9-15. We are using eco-complete substrate with a thin layer of black sand on top
Our annubis, amazon sword, and primrose all have brown and green algae growing on the leaves and the annubis also has a little brush algae on its leaves (it got it when it was in our last tank), but the brush is slowly going away since dosing excel. The 2 crypts seems to be doing ok and the green crypt has even grown a little, but they too also have a little algae on the leaves. The only thing doing great are the java ferns.
Our annarchis is looking bad, but I know it doesn't do well with excel so it will be transferred to another tank soon.
Here are some pictures.






I'm not sure if there is actually problem, or if the tank is just young and things still need to settle in and I'm just overreacting, lol.
Its our 1st true attempt at a planted and I want to make sure I'm doing it right from the start. Thank you for any input