cervelo
New member
Hi everybody,
I have a 60 liters tank, 3/4 full (tap water with bio conditioner, quite hard, Ph 8), 25 Watt 6500K CFL, sand substrate, no CO2, no fertilizers, 10°C / 25°C winter/summer.
Inside there are some anubias, Java fern, Java moss, fontinalis antipyretica, all of them thriving, and some hornwort (Ceratophyllum).
Hornwort has been growing like crazy for 2 years but since a few months is slowly dying.
Today I tested Nitrates and Phosphates and the result was 0, so I guess hornwort sucked all nutrients and now is dying of starvation.
I'm not very keen on fertilizing (also) because in the tank there 4 1-year-old newts and I'd like to know how do you cope with this: fertilizing? Discarding all fast growing plants (this would be strange to me)? Fertilizing in some "natural" way not harmful for newts?
Any idea would be most appreciated
C.
I have a 60 liters tank, 3/4 full (tap water with bio conditioner, quite hard, Ph 8), 25 Watt 6500K CFL, sand substrate, no CO2, no fertilizers, 10°C / 25°C winter/summer.
Inside there are some anubias, Java fern, Java moss, fontinalis antipyretica, all of them thriving, and some hornwort (Ceratophyllum).
Hornwort has been growing like crazy for 2 years but since a few months is slowly dying.
Today I tested Nitrates and Phosphates and the result was 0, so I guess hornwort sucked all nutrients and now is dying of starvation.
I'm not very keen on fertilizing (also) because in the tank there 4 1-year-old newts and I'd like to know how do you cope with this: fertilizing? Discarding all fast growing plants (this would be strange to me)? Fertilizing in some "natural" way not harmful for newts?
Any idea would be most appreciated
C.