Plant issue?

iboG said:
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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I don't think its to much light. My plants on the bottom are turning light green too. I order Seachem Flourish Excel 500ml. Hopefully it help. I just think I have alot of plants. My plants just need more food.


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Flourish Excel is a carbon source and is a replacement for CO2. It will have no effect on the floaters but make your problem with the submersed plants worse.

Look for something like the attached links. It is perfectly safe to toss dry ferts directly into your tank. I do it every other day... I've ordered from both of these guys. They are both good.

http://www.aquariumfertilizer.com/i...rnEdit=9&Returnitemname=&ReturnShowItemStart=

http://www.bobstropicalplants.com/shop/en/fertilizers/15-csmb-nkp-combo-pack.html
 
My L. palustris has really started to take off and the leaves closer to the bottom are darker than those closer to the light. My hornwort is doing the same. I dont think its a problem without really seeing it in person I think its prolly a good thing.
 
Too Much light????? Who said that? :) You have too little light. 36 watts of T8s on a 37 gallon tank is very little light. You should upgrade to T5 HOs. You are currently less than one watt per gallon.

Flourish Excel is a carbon source and is a replacement for CO2. It will have no effect on the floaters but make your problem with the submersed plants worse.
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How would it make emersed plants worse? It gives carbon to plants in a chemical form that is similar to the chemical plants extract from C02. It is not however anywhere near as effective as actual C02. First comes light which generates growth, next comes C02 which fuels photosynthesis, then comes Macro nutrients which are vital for photosynthesis to work and transport nutrients throughout the plant, and then comes micro nutrients. Elevated C02 levels can make up for low light levels, but if you have neither, your plants are in trouble and you can dump all the ferts in the water you want and the only thing that will grow is algae! :)
 
To be honest, I really can't see a problem. The water sprite in the first pic is supposed to be light green. All of your submersed plants - swords, java fern, anubias, mosses, etc. all look perfectly healthy to me
 
The T8s are stock light to the Eclipse tanks hood. I have seem many eclipse tanks with stock hoods light work for them. Most of my plants are low light plants. My lights is not the problem here.

Everyone is giving me mix ideas. So I decided to just add everything to see how it goes. It all going to help my plants anyway. We'll see what happens.

Thank You everyone for the help.
 
ROYWS3 said:
To be honest, I really can't see a problem. The water sprite in the first pic is supposed to be light green. All of your submersed plants - swords, java fern, anubias, mosses, etc. all look perfectly healthy to me
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The plants are not green like they use to be. I did have mini anubias inside the tank that was dying but move it to another tank without much light and less plants. It's not dying now but growing. It might be because there is not enough ferts or flourish to feed them.
 
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