Trouble with Micro Sword and Anubias nana

justintoxicated

justintoxicated

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I have some Micro Sword and some Anubias Nana and I'm having a hard time keeping it alive.

Only in my 3 gallon eclipse with no Flourite was I able to get the Anubias Back to healthy.

Same with the Micro Sword.

When I put them in my high light tank or my low light tank with flourite THey become covered in hair Algae right away.

My Crypts and Wisteria do best in my high light tank with flourite but they also do well int he low light tank with flourite. My java fern is doing great as well (so far)

Why am I having so much problems with these plants? I woul;d put them back in my 3 gallon but I'm lowering the slat level to get it back from brackish to fresh and now I have a crushed coral substrate int here and I'm not sure if it will work ok or not...

Why do these 2 plants grow Hair Algae so fast as compared to others?
 
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Tank Specs (20 Gal community)

4wpg
Dosing:
Flourish Excel
Flourish Trace
Flourish Flourish
DIY Co2
Flourite Substrate
2 otos and many snails to help with algae

Eclipse 3 gallon
had,
Lots of snails as well
whatever stock light comes in eclipse (might be 10 watts)
Blue Gravel
Dosing Flourish Excel
Kent Freshwater (not the key because I was using it in my other tank and the hair algae was even worse then)


Changes: I'm now dosing Nitrate on the large tank, but all my tanks had 0 Nitrate (although the 3 gallon was overstocked with guppies) I see less hair algae now that I am dosing Nitrate but these 2 plants still seemed to be suffering. Is this the key?
 
With the Micro Sword, My experience is that nitrogen is a huge key. I did not do well with micro sword until I elvated N a bit (Above 20 ppm) Annubias however will continue to grow with little nitrogen, they just grow yellow for me.

That aside Hair algea is usually a matter of not enough carbon, and or not enough plant mass. I'd carefully up the excell dosing, and see if that puts the hair algea in check. Annubias are slow growers so they tend to allow more algea growth than a lot of other plants.

Not much of an answer I know, but I'm far from being a plant expert yet.
Dave
 
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