Pet Forum / Aquaria / Plants / January 2006

Has anyone tried using something like Miracle Grow for houseplants with all
the micronutrients in a fishtank?  Does it make the algae grow wild or harm
fish?

    I have a 29g (US) planted tank which is doing quite well.  However I
have noticed that some of the plants are getting Green Algae on their
leaves, especially the Java Fern.  I have supplemental CO2 injected through
a diffuser, and all the water parameter look good.  Is this ...

Can anyone tell what fitting the dupla regulators have and whether any
co2 cylinder in the UK will fit it?
TIA
Steve

Hau kolas..any effective way to calculate CO2 in a tank with high phosphates? Being as the consensus seems to be phosphates
invalidate the standard kh-ph-co2 charts, is there another formula? Can't find anything on the web. Looking at phosphate
removing media, but hand-in-hand ...

I've noticed over the last week the water in my aquarium has gotten a bit
mirky. In my bigger tank long time ago I remember this was a preset to an
algae bloom/green water. I'm figuring it might have something to do with my
change of ferts. Here is my stats and what I was doing ...

My Java Ferns are starting to get clear tips. About 1/4 of the end of
the leaf is starting to turn clear on the newer leaves.
Also sections of the leaves are turning black, but are still growning.
I have several other plants in the tank growing well. Could the other

What is the best commercially avaliable plant food in the UK ?
Thanks

I have 55g aboout a month and a half old, moderately planted tank. I
also have 5 ottos in it. It has 100% fluorite substrate, about 2W/gal
light and dyi CO2.
The plants were growing pretty well at the beginning but slown down in

I am new to this group.  I returned to the hobby a couple years ago
after a 15 year hiatus.  I am returning to keeping plants and have
found very little at the LFS.  I keep soft water aquariums and like
crypts, aponogeton

I have a nice Anubias coffeefolia in my small tank that was very
beautiful and very happy. In the past month or so, I've noticed the
leaves have begun turning yellow. Could this be an iron defficiency? The
substrate is laterite, but the anubias sits on a log and I'm not sure

Hau kolas..came across this in an unlabeled tank at a LFS about a month ago, threw it in my quarantine tank to see what would
happen. Woman who worked there who usually knows her stuff could only say it "needs high light" and thought it was hygrophila
polysperma 'sunset'. Hadn't ...

hau kolas..curious to know what folks here use for dispersal of co2..and which is "best"..the glass/ceramic diffusers or the
powered/passive reactor chambers..or running the co2 gas outlet into the intake of a canister filter? TIA
lila pilamaya

i currently have the red sea co2 setup (yeast), with a venturri to
disperse the bubbles.  i want to move to a pressurized co2 system.  if i
connect the venturri to the pressurized system, do i still need a bubble
counter?  ie: do they both do the same thing for me?

I finally looked up some city water works reports on the Internet and
they show variously:
- total phosphates up to 0.74 mg/L
- total phosphorous 0.17 to 0.22 mg/L (different time period)

I just got through dipping some Anubias, Crypts, amd Java fern in a
1:19 bleach solution at 2 minutes per treatment, roots and all.  The
plants were rinsed in tap water and then left to soak in water that had
a surplus of dechlorination chemical.