Hi everyone. I'm new at aquariums of any kind, and although I've been doing research it's kind of confusing.
This is my first tank ever, and has been up since the early September. The cycle went really fast. Since then my parameters have been stable.
I only have a Betta living in there, and the plants are a red cabomba, wisteria, bacopa, java fern, marimo ball, and christmas moss.
My cabomba seems to be doing great. Is not entirely red, but the tips are, and it's growing like crazy. On the other hand, my wisteria got all yellow and its leaves went see-through, so I took most of it out since it was dying. This past Friday, I got a Bacopa, and today a lot of it's leaves were decomposing leaving my with half of the original plant. The Java Fern is showing brown spots that end up being holes, and there's something fuzzy on it's leaves that I've been trying to ID with no luck. The marimo ball, and moss seem to be doing just fine.
It is a 5.5 gallons tank
2 10watts Coralife Mini Compact Flourescent Bulbs color pink
8 1/2 hours of light daily
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0 ~ 20 (some color in between)
Ph 7.6
KH 180 ppm
GH 120 ppm
Temp 81F ~ 83F
Penguin 100 filter (stock media filter)
Excel ~1ml every day
Flourish Comprenhensive ~1ml every week
Conditioned Tap water (Prime)
1.5 gallons of water changed every weekend
Plain gravel as substrate
Why are my plants having such a hard time? What is wrong?
Please help...
This is how my Bacopa looked like today


This is the Wisteria

The Java fern

... and its fuzzy stuff

Thanks.
This is my first tank ever, and has been up since the early September. The cycle went really fast. Since then my parameters have been stable.
I only have a Betta living in there, and the plants are a red cabomba, wisteria, bacopa, java fern, marimo ball, and christmas moss.
My cabomba seems to be doing great. Is not entirely red, but the tips are, and it's growing like crazy. On the other hand, my wisteria got all yellow and its leaves went see-through, so I took most of it out since it was dying. This past Friday, I got a Bacopa, and today a lot of it's leaves were decomposing leaving my with half of the original plant. The Java Fern is showing brown spots that end up being holes, and there's something fuzzy on it's leaves that I've been trying to ID with no luck. The marimo ball, and moss seem to be doing just fine.
It is a 5.5 gallons tank
2 10watts Coralife Mini Compact Flourescent Bulbs color pink
8 1/2 hours of light daily
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0 ~ 20 (some color in between)
Ph 7.6
KH 180 ppm
GH 120 ppm
Temp 81F ~ 83F
Penguin 100 filter (stock media filter)
Excel ~1ml every day
Flourish Comprenhensive ~1ml every week
Conditioned Tap water (Prime)
1.5 gallons of water changed every weekend
Plain gravel as substrate
Why are my plants having such a hard time? What is wrong?
Please help...
This is how my Bacopa looked like today


This is the Wisteria

The Java fern

... and its fuzzy stuff

Thanks.