Re: [APD] Plant Problems

[Bill Wichers <billw at waveform_net>]

You need some nitrate or your plants will have problems. You can bring the nitrate levels up by dosing KNO3 ( potassium nitrate). If you have no fish, then you'll have to add the macro nutrients in other ways since they won't be coming "through the fish" from fish food. 

 - Bill

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> On Aug 3, 2014, at 12:04 PM, "aquatic-plants-request at actwin_com" <aquatic-plants-request at actwin_com> wrote:
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>   1. Plant Problems (dbabyg at yahoo_com)
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> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 21:27:05 -0700
> From: dbabyg at yahoo_com
> Subject: [APD] Plant Problems
> To: "aquatic-plants at actwin_com" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
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> I experienced problems growing some live plants; rooted jungle val, sagittaria, ludweigiarepens, moneywort, pennywort and water nymph.
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> I have three plant grow tanks.
> - one 30 gal receives 2-3 hours direct sunlight.
> - two 20 gal receive 6 hours of indirect sunlight
> - pea gravel substrate
> - no fish
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> My water parameters are;
> nitrate 0, nitrite 0, chlorine 0. GH 150, PH 8.4, alkalinity 180.
> All of these plants died except a couple vals and the water nymph.? Temperature swings from the east direct sunlight around mid-day may have been a factor.
> The jungle val in the two 20 gallon tanks did much better; greening up and growing nicely.? However, the Sagittaria, ludwiegia, moneywort and pennyworth died off.?? The water nymph is doing okay.
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> I had planned adding more plants, Puruensis, Hygro blue, anacharis and hornwort.? I holding off adding more plants to grow for now.? Any suggestions or opinions appreciated.
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> dbabyg
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