I could use some advice. I'm trying to tackle some plant deficiencies that have been going on for months. I increased my fertilizer once and before I do it again I want to see if that's the correct route or if I should consider dosing individual nutrients or Equilibrium.
Plants are all actively growing. But some have pinholes with yellow edges. Some show very slight yellowing on newer leaves. A couple have large holes leaving just the edge of the leaf. I do have some algae on the mature anubias leaves, maybe GSA. Snails and shrimp take care of it but it comes back.
My tank is 5 gallons.
I have a Nicrew C10 light, supposedly the par is 50 at 12". I keep it at 48% a few inches above the water for 7hrs a day.
I use Easy Green liquid fert with my weekly water changes with tap and again halfway between changes when I topoff with distilled or RO.
I use root tabs every other month.
These are the main plants showing problems,
*Frogbit
*Crypt lucens
*Crypt beckettii
*Anubias nana petite
*Anubias nangi
*Java fern windelov
Other plants in the tank include duckweed, anacharis (floating), micro sword, dwarf hairgrass, buce brownie ghost, and pogostemon stelletus.
Nitrates I THINK are 10ppm. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the orange/red of the 10 and 20 on the kit.
pH 7.8 (varies between 7.4-7.8)
GH 161ppm (fluctuates sightly)
KH 71ppm
Would it be better to just up the Easy Green dosage?
Or dose additional nutrients like potassium, iron or whatever else I need and see how that goes?
Or do half of my water change with distilled and Equilibrium which would add a little of everything?