Hello fine Aquarium Central people,
I have a 50 gallon freshwater tank with several plants in their (I attached a few pictures, so I hope those are visible). The tank is maybe a little over a year old, but I have never had any success with my plants growing. I bought a lot last year and all but the hardiest died. I have good eco-complete substrate, the pH is usually a little high because I do water changes with tap water but I lower it to keep it around 7.4. I use Prime water conditioner to get rid of any chlorine from the tap. My ammonia levels are zero, along with the nitrites being zero as well, and the nitrates are around 4 ppm. I tried adding a CO2 booster because I thought maybe my plants were out of oxygen, but no help. I had a light specifically for planted aquariums. There's a bit of a snail problem, but I recently bought three assassin snails and they seem to be going at it. Those plus a zebra nerite snail are the only aquatic animals I have in their, so there can't be a problem due to overfeeding fish because there aren't any in there. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but its been months of slow death after the initial onslaught of the first wave of plants. I'm begging you intellectuals to help me. My plants don't look terrible in the pictures, but they have been flirting with death for months, and I don't like them flirting.
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I have a 50 gallon freshwater tank with several plants in their (I attached a few pictures, so I hope those are visible). The tank is maybe a little over a year old, but I have never had any success with my plants growing. I bought a lot last year and all but the hardiest died. I have good eco-complete substrate, the pH is usually a little high because I do water changes with tap water but I lower it to keep it around 7.4. I use Prime water conditioner to get rid of any chlorine from the tap. My ammonia levels are zero, along with the nitrites being zero as well, and the nitrates are around 4 ppm. I tried adding a CO2 booster because I thought maybe my plants were out of oxygen, but no help. I had a light specifically for planted aquariums. There's a bit of a snail problem, but I recently bought three assassin snails and they seem to be going at it. Those plus a zebra nerite snail are the only aquatic animals I have in their, so there can't be a problem due to overfeeding fish because there aren't any in there. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but its been months of slow death after the initial onslaught of the first wave of plants. I'm begging you intellectuals to help me. My plants don't look terrible in the pictures, but they have been flirting with death for months, and I don't like them flirting.
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