Melting HC and Dying Fauna

[torque6]

By the way, when you mean old substract, is it reused substract after awhile or immediately transferred with exisiting old tank water together with it ? Cause you mentioned rescape.

[alechim]

I rescape with everything new except for my tank.It has been a month already.

[torque6]

Oh, in that case, once your rescape. Its considered a new tank as you may have reset the biofilters, its been cycling for a month i presume?? Have you used any water conditioners like nutrafin cycle or sechem stablity to speed up cultivating the nutrifying bacterias ?

[alechim]

My intend is to cycle my tank by not using any liquid BB . Not that I am stubborn, I want to try out things. Anyway, thats not the point. My tank has 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite and I have yet to get a NO3 tester. My plants are now browning which shows nutrients deficiency, however algae still boom.

[jasonchua1982]

Had bad experiences with HC, now switch to hair grass

[kiokteck]

Hi,

You filteration is too new. not enough good bb. When i first started out, I was anxious to get the plant and fishes in. As my filteration is not mature, i faces a lot of issues( algae and fishes dying).

I suggust that you take it slow and get the fundamental right. And also, go and get a test kit.

[chiller]

Had bad experiences with HC, now switch to hair grass

Bro, do hair grass need a chiller to grow? Uncle at colourful told me it required.

[kiokteck]

Bro, do hair grass need a chiller to grow? Uncle at colourful told me it required.

No.. you do not need chiller to grow hair grass.

For HC, you will need high light. I am on a 2x1x1.5 tank with 72w light for eight hours. No problem growing HC not hair grass.

[torque6]

When i first started out, and fauna and plants started dying because I didnt cycle my tank, my reading on ammonia and nitrite was also 0ppm.

So, as long as you don't follow through this process, its just not going to work. I had to learnt it the hard way, you dont need to.

[alechim]

I learnt it too. Though I did not even dump any faunas in then, algae still grow. But besides that point. I believe in using bb, though it might speed up the cycling process, I still let it cycle longer.

Now my tank is crystal clear! But still figuring how can I let my HG grow faster. My HG used to pearl, now they dont so I think nutrients might be insufficient.

[torque6]

wah, you hairgrass can pearl? I thought the leaves have too little surface area to do that . Fauna and algae are not related, but any imbalances in your tank will cause an algae bloom.

[PeterGwee]

I learnt it too. Though I did not even dump any faunas in then, algae still grow. But besides that point. I believe in using bb, though it might speed up the cycling process, I still let it cycle longer.

Now my tank is crystal clear! But still figuring how can I let my HG grow faster. My HG used to pearl, now they dont so I think nutrients might be insufficient.

Look at the CO2. Do not trust test kits too much but rather watch the plants.

Regards,
Peter Gwee

[alechim]

I have a drop checker for CO2, colour indicate CO2 within 30ppm. My HG though are growing but not as fast as many said once the HG gets rooted.

[torque6]

Alechim,

Do you any HG planted near the edge of the tank, if so, you can watch if there are runners.

[alechim]

There are .runners do grow, anyway they are better now after I switch to dosing just ADA step2 and brighty K. The plants are greener and less dead HG

[torque6]

hehehe, good you found a solution. Brighty K is potassium, whats ADA step 2?

[alechim]

yup, brighty K is potassium and step2 consist of micros + iron formula for plant growth.

It is simpler to dose, dont have to bother about calculating how much of each nutrients is there. I had faced the truth, I am lazy