[jsuereth]

How high is your lighting and what type of substrate?

I havent dosed ferts, besides extra fish food, for months and its doing great. My substrate is flourite with root tabs from six months ago.

 

[jsuereth]

Im dosing about 12 drops of the stuff, that’s about 1.2 ml

its sera florena, and it says no nitrate or phosphorus contained in it

i think its just trace elements

I'v only dosed for a day or 2 though, but my shrimp all went into hiding after i dosed it

Try to find something with phosphorus. I had crazy algae problems when attempting to grow java fern solo in gravel substrate. Switching to flourite or other high cec substrate is definitely worthwhile, although temporarily stressful for fish.

 

[jsuereth]

You can always try seachem excell instead of diy co2. A bit of excell makes my fern start perling.