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I dont think so, it was like this before I replanted last month. there had not been any plants for over 6 months.

I am using Black Gravel

Thanks Sora, I am using the Easy Green because I just planted the Water Wisteria and hope it will start rooting and convert to underwater plant.

Combs work very well at gathering up, when you get up in the morning and comb your hair you just go to the aquarium and comb the duckweed 😄

Thanks I might try some hornwort, I had some duckweed hitch a ride with some other plants but I had surgery last November and could not take good care of things and I lost all my plants and the duckweed.

Thanks KBOzzie59, the manual with the test kit suggest keeping Nitrates below 40ppm. My house water I use to refill the tank shows 0ppm of Nitrates.

I am trying to keep my Nitrates below 40ppm but not having much luck. I have a 80 gallon tank with 4 Emperor 400 filters running at about 1/3 flow. I have about 12 Water Wisteria plants, about 30 guppies, 30 blue velvet shrimp and 6 Amano shrimp. I feed once a day and everything cleans it up in less than 10 minutes. For plant fertilizer I am using CO-Ops Easy Root Tabs and Easy Green as directed and a Fluval light. When I change water I do about 40 gallons about every 10 days. Any idea how I can keep the Nitrates lower?

My guppies, shrimp and snails are going to get a late Christmas present, a new heater. The morning I put my hand in the water and it was very warm so I got my flashlight and got a good look at the thermometer on the other end of the tank and it said that the tank was at 94°. 😬 I have the heater unplugged and opened the lid on one side to start a slow cooldown

Thanks Patrick, I will try it. I can always pull the base latter if they do not sprout.

Thanks HH, It has been about 2 months and where the leaves on the center part of the stems fell off they have not started sprouting again but the very base and tops are show new growth Thanks Patrick, do I need to leave the base and roots or just pull then and trim the tops and replant just that part?

Water Wisteria & Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus A couple of months ago I had a bad algae outbreak and ended up turning off the light for about 6 days. That did clear most of the adage but it took its toll on the Water Wisteria & Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus I have lost a lot of the lower leaves so do I need to cut them about 1” from the gravel and then trim off the top part and replant them and leave the bottom part to sprout again? I also have some brown stuff on the leaves, I am guessing that is another form of algae?

Thanks, I did go back and look at my amonia and the decimal was in the wrong place, it was .15 and now it is back to 0. I have noticed the snail has not moved in 3 days so I guess it is no longer with me.

No the foot looks like it is still up inside and sort of shriveled up. I forgot I do have 1 lb of crushed Coral in one of the filter chambers.

Thanks, the newest section of its shell is a pale color not the bright yellow of the rest of it.

Is there any physical things to look for inside the shell? KH is 71.6 GH is 125.3