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Hello all. I've got a 20g at the office with medium LED Lighting and I've had some plants it there for awhile. The first ones have been in about 4-6 months while the newest one has been in there maybe a month. Before finding you're plant database here on the site, I was struggling trying to identify them, so I would like some clarification, as well as some tips on how to provide for them. The older ones I believe are the crypt Wendtii and the newer one I believe is Anubias.
The biggest issue I'm having is that my original plants don't seem to want to grow, less one side of the tank and much more the other. I didn't want to go hard with the planted tank until I knew my plants weren't going to die and I knew what they were. I seem to be having some issues identifying nutrient deficiencies so any tips there would be helpful.
Another note, I recently started to dose with flourish. The first time I did it, I noticed the very next day what seemed like pearling. My first assumption was my Betta fish went ham on a bubble nest until I realized that the bubbles were coming out from the plants. A couple days later, the plants still looked exactly the same and the bubbles seemed to be coming from the substrate. I immediately researched into anaerobic bacteria and attempted to rule out Hydrogen Sulfide I believe. I got a nose and made sure it didn't smell any sulfur so I left myself baffled and decided it would be fine. With my severely low plant load, I didn't think it possible to be pearling so I continued to experiment. To test whether it was my dosing, I stopped dosing the regular flourish. The bubbles stopped. I still had not seen any impact on my plants so I resumed dosing as well as added some phosphate and nitrogen to the mix, and I changed my filter's output slightly so that it impacts the water more often turning it over a bit. The bubbles have stopped completely. Maybe a couple every once in awhile but nothing like those first few days.
This has left me two hypothesis: I am diffusing the water too much, which at the time of writing I find the probable reason; or the nitrate and phosphate somehow stopped the bubbling, correcting what I was missing.
Any help would be much appreciated. Especially as to how to save my plants.
The biggest issue I'm having is that my original plants don't seem to want to grow, less one side of the tank and much more the other. I didn't want to go hard with the planted tank until I knew my plants weren't going to die and I knew what they were. I seem to be having some issues identifying nutrient deficiencies so any tips there would be helpful.
Another note, I recently started to dose with flourish. The first time I did it, I noticed the very next day what seemed like pearling. My first assumption was my Betta fish went ham on a bubble nest until I realized that the bubbles were coming out from the plants. A couple days later, the plants still looked exactly the same and the bubbles seemed to be coming from the substrate. I immediately researched into anaerobic bacteria and attempted to rule out Hydrogen Sulfide I believe. I got a nose and made sure it didn't smell any sulfur so I left myself baffled and decided it would be fine. With my severely low plant load, I didn't think it possible to be pearling so I continued to experiment. To test whether it was my dosing, I stopped dosing the regular flourish. The bubbles stopped. I still had not seen any impact on my plants so I resumed dosing as well as added some phosphate and nitrogen to the mix, and I changed my filter's output slightly so that it impacts the water more often turning it over a bit. The bubbles have stopped completely. Maybe a couple every once in awhile but nothing like those first few days.
This has left me two hypothesis: I am diffusing the water too much, which at the time of writing I find the probable reason; or the nitrate and phosphate somehow stopped the bubbling, correcting what I was missing.
Any help would be much appreciated. Especially as to how to save my plants.
