roboat Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Just wondering if anyone can throw me some tips to keeping thin val alive. It's just planted in plan old pea gravel so that's probably my first problem it's about 3" deep, but i've got 2 21w white tubes and 1 21w blue tube, on 4 hrs off 1 on 4 hrs. I add seachem flourish weekly and basically do nothing else. I'm guessing either a planted substrate or root ferts would help things along a lot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mines bigger Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 i have had troubles with flourish and val, i can keep val alive until i add flourish then it goes brown and falls apart within the fortnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
col Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Dino dung,dino pee,dino spit,same lights my val was over 2ft long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalimon Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Just wondering if anyone can throw me some tips to keeping thin val alive. It's just planted in plan old pea gravel so that's probably my first problem it's about 3" deep, but i've got 2 21w white tubes and 1 21w blue tube, on 4 hrs off 1 on 4 hrs. I add seachem flourish weekly and basically do nothing else. I'm guessing either a planted substrate or root ferts would help things along a lot? It's probably your lighting regime. Just stick to a minimum of 8hrs on. 10 would be better. Everything else (as Col points out) is ok. Ta Graeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roboat Posted July 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Yeah I have heard something about excel causing problems with val. I think it's just that the val needs some root ferts, I don't see how my lighting regime is a problem, (it's only new and seems to not have changed anything) just doing it that way to try and break up the algae photosythesis, coz the back of my tank is green lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalimon Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Yeah I have heard something about excel causing problems with val. I think it's just that the val needs some root ferts, I don't see how my lighting regime is a problem, (it's only new and seems to not have changed anything) just doing it that way to try and break up the algae photosythesis, coz the back of my tank is green lol Plants need a certain photoperiod - 4 + another 4 doesn't equal 8 hours to a plant. Ta Graeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
