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- Fri May 15, 2020 12:42 pm
- Forum: Planted tank chemistry
- Topic: Trying to get the Red back
- Replies: 5
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Re: Trying to get the Red back
If you’re dosing an all-in-one fertilizer it’s going to be considerably more challenging, since you can’t modify the individual components. “Competition color” (as I call it) are largely achieved by limiting nitrogen. Basically it causes the plant to break chlorophyll in search of the nutrient it’s...
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:24 pm
- Forum: Planted tank chemistry
- Topic: Trying to get the Red back
- Replies: 5
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Re: Trying to get the Red back
Aquarium COOP Easy Green, UNS Contrasoil, and a 1000w grow light (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0833 ... UTF8&psc=1). Light is on for 8 hours a day.DonkeyFish wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:09 pm Are you dosing anything other than iron? And what are the other conditions (soil, light, etc).
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:01 am
- Forum: Planted tank chemistry
- Topic: Trying to get the Red back
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12376
Trying to get the Red back
Hey Everyone: I am looking online and only finding articles and forum posts from like 2015 so I am hoping someone can help me out with a newer rule of thumb. I have 2 tanks that have a 1 or 2 red/pink plants in them. I currently dose iron 1 time a week and am trying to figure out how do I know how o...
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:00 pm
- Forum: DIY
- Topic: [HELP] - NOVA Aquarium Stand Construction Tomorrow
- Replies: 3
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[HELP] - NOVA Aquarium Stand Construction Tomorrow
I believe the saying is bit off more than we can chew. Basically my brother and law convinced me to build 2 aquarium stands and was convinced we could do it. Well now I have 4 2 foot by 7foot aquarium surfaces the we cannot get flat. Anyone affected by the quarantine who can help or has a wood pla...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 5:22 pm
- Forum: Aquarium Plants
- Topic: Diagnosing Plant Deficiencies
- Replies: 1
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Diagnosing Plant Deficiencies
Hey Everyone: Does anyone have some advice for me. I have this dwarf baby tears that is getting to be translucent. I am dosing ferts and iron weekly. It is in brightwell substrate (which is where it came from) and in the same water parameters. Do I need to be dosing more iron? Can someone look at th...