Plant issue?

In order to help, people are going to need to know about your tank setup. Specifically, your lighting and fertilizing routine and the type of plants you have. Are you using grow lights? Or the lights that came with your tank?
 
It looks like you are short on some nutrients.

First: Test your nitrogen levels in the tank. I betting you get a 0, 0, 0, reading.

Second purchase some dry fertilizers online. Flourish works but it is mostly water and way overpriced. A decent Micro-Macro mix is easy to use and combined with 50% weekly waterchanges you can be successful without CO2.
 
Ketso said:
In order to help, people are going to need to know about your tank setup. Specifically, your lighting and fertilizing routine and the type of plants you have. Are you using grow lights? Or the lights that came with your tank?
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I am using the stock Eclipse t8 lights (18watt x 2= 36watts total). Also using the Eclipse 37gal tank with stock filter system. I have 60 pound of Eco-Completed planted aquarium substrate. My plants are anubias, java ferm, java moss, christmas moss, willow moss, peacock moss, moss ball, bacopa monnieri, hygrohilla polysperma (tiger),bacopa monnieri (moneywort), hydrocotyle sp. Japan and amazon sword. Also have foaters plants (dwarf water lettuce and water sprite).
I have 3 cory fish, Malaysian trumpet snails, baby mystery snails, and over 100 all size red cherry shrimp.
I am not using any ferts. I overfeed my tank in the morning (just enough food for everyone to get to eat because shrimps eat so little). My planted tank has only been setup for 2 months.
What can I do to help my plants be more greener?


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THE V said:
It looks like you are short on some nutrients.

First: Test your nitrogen levels in the tank. I betting you get a 0, 0, 0, reading.

Second purchase some dry fertilizers online. Flourish works but it is mostly water and way overpriced. A decent Micro-Macro mix is easy to use and combined with 50% weekly waterchanges you can be successful without CO2.
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Is it safe to use with shrimps? I have never use any fert or flourish yet. I am still new to planted tanks.


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Thought that was normal, but my plants in my 5g look the exact same way using a 19w CFL, flourish, CO2 Booster and osmocote in the sand.
 
iboG said:
Could be a problem of not enough light. Kinda looks what happens when a plant is in a closet. No sunlight = no chlorophyll = no green.


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Wouldn't the floater plants be green. Since it on top of the water but it's not. Alot of people uses the watt per gallon on lights. 36watts to 37gallon. It close to being right. My tank is turn on at 6am-8pm everyday.


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Maybe too much light then? I have plants that if they get too much light, they blanch out. Maybe try cutting the lights by a few hours a day and see what happens?

14 hours a day, try cutting it down to like 10?

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