New to plants with Questions

[jimmy mc]

Hi. A few days ago I changed my lights on a 10 g from 15 w to 30 w of 6500 K. I have Anubias nana, Cryptocoryne wendtii, Echinodorus bleheri and Java fern. The water tested as follows:
pH - 7.8
KH - 5
Phosphate - 0.25 ppm
Nitrate - 7.5 ppm

This pH and KH calculates 2.4 ppm of CO2.

The plants seem to be doing well currently. Should I be adding fertilizer, and/or something like Florish Excel or CO2?

I am completely new to plants and don't know what I should do next.

I only have 3 fish totaling about 4 in in the tank and don't plain on adding more.

 

[petluvr]

That is actually quite a bit of light so I would suggest adding ferts as for the bleheri it benefits greatly from root tabs.

 

[jimmy mc]

The lighting is with CFL and a DIY hood painted white inside for reflection. It is probly only equivalent to about 2/3 or 2 wpg of regular fluorence.

Would a liquid fertilizer like Flurish be ok? Should I add a carbon sorse such as Florish Excel? I really don't want to get into CO2 addition right now.

 

[vequalsir]

you can look to get a dry fert mix like PMDD.

I use the one from aquariumfertilizer.com. It's very cost effective.

 

[bazil323]

You might want to find a way to shade your anubias from that much light.

Otherwise, I don't know much about CO2 or ferts.

 

[tanker]

You might want to find a way to shade your anubias from that much light.

My Anubius is under 5wpg. 500watts in my 100gal.

With a small tank (10 gal), just buy some liquid ferts. No use buying the large dry ferts. You will have enought for 2 life-times.

 

[mellowvision]

and take it easy too. overdoing the ferts is harder to recover from than a lack of them.

 

[jimmy mc]

Since I am not planning to add CO2 at this time would it be better for me to use lower watt bulbs?

 

[kzr750r1]

Probably. You can get away with one CF over those plants. I have a similar list in my ten gallon. Using the stock hood. Only dose during water change and very small amounts of dry npk. No CO2 on this one BTW.

 

[jimmy mc]

Thanks to those that responded. All of these sugestions are helpful.