Amazon Sword Question

[Joel Steen]

Just planted this maybe 3 weeks ago. Used easy green and root tabs. I have soft water so I used equilibrium and I’ve also been using excel every other day. I also just replaced my old light with aquarium co ops light. 55 gallon. 9 hour total light 4 morning 5 evening. Set at 80 percent intensity. I’ve only been using that excel for a few weeks now and notice a bit more  algae. 2 questions. The sword looking normal? And is it the light or excel casing the algae?

I didn’t use the equilibrium after the most recent water change. I was going to try these wonder shells instead fyi.

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On 5/31/2023 at 7:45 PM, Joel Steen said:

Just planted this maybe 3 weeks ago. Used easy green and root tabs. I have soft water so I used equilibrium and I’ve also been using excel every other day. I also just replaced my old light with aquarium co ops light. 55 gallon. 9 hour total light 4 morning 5 evening. Set at 80 percent intensity. I’ve only been using that excel for a few weeks now and notice a bit more  algae. 2 questions. The sword looking normal? And is it the light or excel casing the algae?

I didn’t use the equilibrium after the most recent water change. I was going to try these wonder shells instead fyi.

The swords look okay, some leaves that are dying off could be because of being introduced into a new environment, and that some of the leaves still look emersed. Second algae are going to form no matter how much lighting you put or fertilizer, what you can do is if algae is still an issue dial back on the light timer and use less fert and see if that has any changes.