Rotala losing its redness

[bennyc]

1 month after buying rotala. The rotala start to shed its red leaves and green ones appeared. However, the green leaves are not turning red. Currently, CO2 is supplied to the tank at 1 bpms and lights are on for 2 X t5ho for 8 hours. What seems to be the problem? Not enough nutrients?

[diazman]

How much are you dosing iron? IME, I slightly overdose my iron to make my plants turn red.

[bennyc]

The soil is new with a mixture of ada and normal aqua soil. I have not start dosing fertiliser yet.
Is iron harmful to fishes, at what amount?

[diazman]

I'm not really sure @ what dosage it becomes harmful. Since my tank is only 45x30x25, I dose about 3ml using those pipette every monday and thursday. WC 25% every sunday.

[milk_vanilla]

I dose 5 ppm iron, each dosage.
My fauna are happy at least.

Some plants like your light intensitiy / PAR,
More closer your plants to the lights / more PAR your light to reach the leaves, automatically shown is redish.

[felix_fx2]

I dose 5 ppm iron, each dosage.
My fauna are happy at least.

Some plants like your light intensitiy / PAR,
More closer your plants to the lights / more PAR your light to reach the leaves, automatically shown is redish.

Some plants react the direct opposite
Rotala and some you need strong lighting.

TS, if you keep expensive shrimps. please DO NOT dose iron higher then recommended.

[Shadow]

IMO its light, what is your tank dimension? and how much light you put in? Iron is secondary, it does not matter how much iron you put in, if you do not have enough light, it wont grow red.

[bennyc]

IMO its light, what is your tank dimension? and how much light you put in? Iron is secondary, it does not matter how much iron you put in, if you do not have enough light, it wont grow red.

I am using a 2ft tank height is less than 1ft. 2 T5HO (6500k & 10000K) for 8 hours daily

I bought seachem flourish, good enough?

[milk_vanilla]

T5 should suffice, mine also t5, 6.5k

You can slightly dose more iron. Careful if you have delicate shrimps like Felix says.

Mine are cherries and amanos, they're doing alright in 5 ppm iron or sometimes more, I'm not fully pricise doser.. .


I have quite dense of floras, maybe that's the reason higher iron didn't kill them


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[bennyc]

T5 should suffice, mine also t5, 6.5k

You can slightly dose more iron. Careful if you have delicate shrimps like Felix says.

Mine are cherries and amanos, they're doing alright in 5 ppm iron or sometimes more, I'm not fully pricise doser.. .


I have quite dense of floras, maybe that's the reason higher iron didn't kill them


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You would need a test kit to measure 5ppm iron right?

[milk_vanilla]

I did not use test kit, just dosage it 5 ppm ( according to my tank volume ) during micro fert schedule. In the end i will reset them during weekly wc.