My planted has taken a dive (again) the only thing Ive done is clean out the filter but double dosed my ferts to add back the nutrients. everything looks like its been eaten, do fish sometimes like a change so go for the plants? MY amazon swords are still pumping (not pearling anymore ) and sending out new plants all the time (maybe sucking up all the ferts?) I have also noticed a couple of small snails popping up (only after adding some plants from a unamed persons tank-not blaming them might not be from them) -had them b4, more and bigger, but didnt affect the plants! in the tank is angels, BN, gBA, neons, a cocatoo, mollys, swords,1 gourami, 1 flying fox and I think thats it. has 2 150w 6400 MH, DIY co2 (always pumping out bubbles) PMDD flourish and some fert balls. I have my o2 on at night to let the fish breath.

ideas

most likely rotting and the fish are enjoying the algal change in diet. The plants and tank must be pretty spectacular to put that much effort into growing plants.

any pic's??

Must be the GBA's bro, your gunna have to give them too me

Nah but seriously, Possibly something to do with double dosing the ferts? I found that when ever i overdosed the PMDD my tank would go green, and alot of the stem plants would die off/not look too good. If I was you, i would just do a water change, then keep dosing the correct amount of ferts until you see some improvements... What kind of bubble rate do you have coming from the co2? With 300W's over a 200-250L (i think yours is about that isnt it?) You will need a highish bubble rate (1 bubble per second at least)

Whenever things like this happen to me, i just chuck alot of the dead/dying/not looking good plants out and re-plant the whole tank with cuttings, and re-do the tank again pretty much.

HTH

you may be right rogan I also started to use the flourish at about the same time as things went wrong will do a water change and cut back to just pmdd. as for the BN dont you have them coming ou your ears I think you should let me have the breeding pair for my 1000L :lol:

Nah mate, i got rid of all my babys after the meeting the other weekend to sharron and paul, my breeding female died ages ago, and so now i dont have any babys... I realy want some GBA's though but dont realy have the money for them ATM. I have my breeding male and a smaller female in a tank now and the female looks FAT!!! so fingers crossed

well heres my new approach -JUST LEAVE IT- from now on all Ill be doing is adding 4 drops of PMDD a day and leaveing everything else alone no water changes-maybe a jug a week.. and feed heaps as this is all I do on all my other tanks (minus the ferts) and the plants grow like crazy. have applied this to the tank and things are starting to recover fish are still happy plants are getting some new leaves and the new grass is starting to spread,