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Around two weeks ago I bought a cluster of ammania gracilis and have been dosing 2 ml of iron everyday. However the plants have turned a greenish color with a little bit of red. I have gotten new growth that seems to be a bit more red but nonetheless still has some green. Also the older leaves are turning a brownish black, I know it's not ammonia burn because all of my other plants are fine. My tank is heavily planted it could be the iron is getting consumed fast and I'm not maintaining 10 ml of iron in my 20 gallon tank.

 

[Fin2you]

I am a planted tank newbie too & this had me wondering as well. But what I found is that yes especially in a newly planted tank with plants just "establishing" pretty much double dosing iron is almost needed! Also the older leaves turning brownish black is common especially around the 2wk in a new home mark!

Around two weeks ago I bought a cluster of ammania gracilis and have been dosing 2 ml of iron everyday. However the plants have turned a greenish color with a little bit of red. I have gotten new growth that seems to be a bit more red but nonetheless still has some green. Also the older leaves are turning a brownish black, I know it's not ammonia burn because all of my other plants are fine. My tank is heavily planted it could be the iron is getting consumed fast and I'm not maintaining 10 ml of iron in my 20 gallon tank.

 

[Charlieinabox]

Hello I'm new here I have 6 stems of red lewigia about 12" tall but bottom half has no leaves can someone tell me why . no co2 but its coming as well as ferts by weeks end ty

 

[Jmarth]

I get a ‘unable to select database’ error when I try to open the link from the first comment.

 

[Dom1042]

Same here, i'm also not sure how to go to the article section mentioned in the first post.

 

[Lorenzo I. Hoerner]

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