blackwolfXKAV said:
were you dosing anything at all? what was the lighting?
i'm in luck, i jsut set up and i needed a large plant
was it in special substrate?
"One large clump with the leaves covering 80% of the surface."
on the surface of the tank?
I am using dry ferts from
http://www.gregwatson.com/ products like flourish's line are great, but get expensive.
KH2P04, potasium sulfate, PMDD (trace), and iron are all I add fert wise.
I also use Co2 injection.
Substrate is river gravel, probably 2mm in size. I use flourish substrate tabs put in a little denser than the box says, seems to of worked well for me so far. I've wanted to try stuff like laterite or flourite but it has to wait untill I move in april.
My lighting is 260watts (4x65w) compact flourecent.
Lotus plants like getting leaves up to the surface if they're not pruned, they look alot like lilly pads but alot more colorful.
If you get the plant, the leaves with the bright green tops and purple/redish undersides where at the surface, the rest are a dark red color underneath and red/green blotched tops.
If ya prune the leaves before they get to the surface it becomes a wide and very colorful underwater center piece.
About the tank it's coming from.
No new inhabitants have been added in 4 months (those where quarantined for 5 weeks before I added them,) and I've had no disease/mystery deaths since an ich outbreak almost a year ago. I don't use any chemicals other than dechlorinator either (ferts excluded.)
