Sudden deaths?

[fishbone]

What kind of deficiency would it be if mature large leaves seem to "wrap up"?
I just got my Flourish Potassium today and will start dosing accordingly.

[jones57742]

Originally Posted by emc7

A lot of water conditioners have a trace of EDTA (Ethylene diamine tetracetic acid). Its a cool molecule that wraps 4 arms around heavy metals and kelates them. Because it grabs Ca+2 and Mg+2 ions, you might see a decrease in hardness. The reason its added is that it is non-toxic to fish and will protect fish from toxic heavy metals like mercury.

emc7:

This is very, very good info!

You got a url which describes the details.

This may be one reason Seachem Prime is generally recommended due the effects of this EDTA.

Originally Posted by JustOneMore20

Yep, the color of soy sauce. I have not heard of any adverse effects of not placing it in the refrigerator. I personally do not keep mine in the refrigerator and as far as I can tell, it hasn't caused any problems.

Ditto.

TR

[fishbone]

Have a look at these 3 pictures, as you can see the plants are doing much better.
However, why is the pennywort new growth so very pale?
http://picasaweb.google.com/fishbon3...41433413383202
http://picasaweb.google.com/fishbon3...90945915925858
http://picasaweb.google.com/fishbon3...41463478154290
I was told to try and plant it in the substrate vs having it floating. How do I go about planting? I have two pieces of it basically just stuck in the substrate at one end, sitting upright.
I also have a bit of a green and brown algae growth on one of the rocks and the sides of the tank. I cleaned it up a bit with a scraper and will cut back on lighting and dosing.

[fishbone]

Well, as you can see from the picture below and the one following that, the plants are doing much better. I basically dose once a week with Flourish, once every other day with Flourish Excel and twice a week with Flourish Trace, Potassium and Nitrogen.
http://picasaweb.google.com/fishbon3...51781923054914

[fishbone]

Me again. If my phosphates are anywhere between 0.4 and 0.7, does that mean that I don't have to dose Flourish Phosphorous? I ask because it seems that some older leaves are slightly starting to curl and a dying leaf has completely curled up and turned a very dark green. Overall my plants are still doing great but I think I'm starting to see an older issue come back. Having killed all my shrimp and a bunch of snails by an accidental overdose of one of the nutrients, I'm dosing on the light side as it stands and completely skipping Phosphorous since phosphates are, theoretically, at good levels.
I am also switching as of today from 11 hours of lighting to about 8 because I'm continuing to see a slight algae problem. That should still be OK since I have low-light plants and the light is 8-watts, on a 10 gallon tank.