I've had my tank coming up for a year and my Amazon swords are looking very sorry for themselves
I used fluorite black sand from seachem as substrate http/www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/FlouriteBlackSand.html
and they initially did well. They're still chucking out new leaves, but the old ones are brown and rotted, see pic.
When they started to go, I added some fertiliser in tablet form. Can't find them now, but they were from the UK classified section on here. Clear 'pill' with pale brown granules in. Said to be copper free and my amano shrimp seem fine, so I assume that's true.
It's been about a month since I added those, should they look better by now?
System is low tech, no ferts, no co2, lighting is 24w double tube on for 7 hours a day. I chose the swords along with Java ferns and anubias (which is doing great) for ease.
Thanks for any help
I used fluorite black sand from seachem as substrate http/www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/FlouriteBlackSand.html
and they initially did well. They're still chucking out new leaves, but the old ones are brown and rotted, see pic.
When they started to go, I added some fertiliser in tablet form. Can't find them now, but they were from the UK classified section on here. Clear 'pill' with pale brown granules in. Said to be copper free and my amano shrimp seem fine, so I assume that's true.
It's been about a month since I added those, should they look better by now?
System is low tech, no ferts, no co2, lighting is 24w double tube on for 7 hours a day. I chose the swords along with Java ferns and anubias (which is doing great) for ease.
Thanks for any help