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Plant probs
- To: <Aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
- Subject: Plant probs
- From: "Warhau" <warhau at austin_rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:23:15 -0500
- Importance: Normal
Hello,
My tank is about a week old and I am having some issues. Being a newbie, I
don't know what's wrong. Here are some pictures that I hope may help with
some advice.
In this one, the plant in the center has veins which are much darker green
than the rest of the leaf. I think the whole lead used to be the dark green
color.
http://www.severed.us/tank/DCP00555.JPG
Doesn't show up great, but this water sprite has some black splotches on the
stems. The stem appears thinner like it may be separating there.
http://www.severed.us/tank/DCP00552.JPG
Here some rust-colored stuff appears to be forming on the leaves. I thought
at first it was algae, but it doesn't seem to smudge off with fingers.
http://www.severed.us/tank/DCP00556.JPG
The plant here appears to be getting more yellow/dying leaves each day.
http://www.severed.us/tank/DCP00556.JPG
Here are some steps I have taken in the last couple of days.
* Cut light from 384W (3.1 W/g in rectangular 120g tank) to 192W.
* Adjust spraybar so less/no agitation occurs on the affected plants. It
wasn't bad before, but I figured I would rule it out completely.
* Raised planting depth a little with tweezers. I thought they may have been
planted to deep so I pulled them up a little.
Currently not using ferts due to 100% new Flourite and very hard water.
Full tank description can be found at
http://www.severed.us/tank/plant_tank.html
Any advice, diagnosis, tests are appreciate.
Thanks as always
Chris
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