Arte you fertilizing or doing regular water
changes? When was the last time the filter was cleaned?
Regards,
Aquaticz
At 07:44 AM 11/14/2010, you wrote:
>
>
>Help needed - In my 70 litre tank set up in
>February I had, up until now, been quite
>successful with my plants. I very quickly
>learned that any plant with very fine leaves
>didnt last a week, but I was having a lot of
>success with broader leafed plants and three
>different varieties that grew so much they made
>a canopy over the top of the tank (sorry dont
>know species but quite small leaves giving out root like strands from the stem.
>
>For a quite a few weeks now the plants have been
>dying - I now have lost all the plants that
>reached the top of the tank, just shedding
>leaves. Some new ones I bought last week are
>just shedding leaves and there will be nothing
>left in a few days. A quite densly planted tank now looks quite bear.
>
>I increased the light from 6 hours a day to 8 hours to no avail.
>There does seem to be a slight 'cotton wool' matter around some.
>
>I do have a guppy and 2 shrimps but I dont think
>that the degree the plants are going is down to them.
>
>The tank has a Sunglo 46cm 15W T8 lamp.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated
>
>Sue Francis
>Coulsdon, Surrey, England
>
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