Why Do My Aquarium Plants Keep Dying? The Top 5 Reasons Planted Tanks Fail, Melt & Grow Algae
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well I don't want you to get a big head or anything-- BUT-- This video on The top 5 reasons planted tanks fail-- is the best video on fish/plant keeping I have seen this entire year. REALLY excellent. Educational, Interesting, factual, science based, well documented, filled with examples and clear explanation as to WHY plants do well or not. Kudos! Well done.
Well thank you very kindly.
Plants Light !!! Plants substrate !!! Plants Fish !!! Fish PooP !!! Plants Grow !!! Its literally that simple. Alex break down a fish tank or set up a new one. With a crash coarse summed up in like 15 minutes for beginners. Show them the short cuts. And patience ❤ cheers
Yes please show me
I have a tank with 4 female bettas, 1 otto, ramshorn and random neocaridinas. I use small gravel that is about 1/4" only. My narrow leaf ludwigia, crypts and java ferns are doing really good. Have had this tank running for a couple of years now. Been farming the crap out of the ludwigia.
@@azntactical4884oh really no soil? I’m glad to hear this works for people
👍👍👍
As a general rule, I think plants with bigger leaves do fine in lower light conditions because they can catch more light with their big leaves. Plants with fine or narrow leaves generally need more or brighter light. However, this doesn't account for special plant colors and is just for general plant survival.
As a general rule of thumb that is definitely true 👍
do you have a recommend plant for low light as in my country special lights are to expensive
@@sharonwhiteley4616 Sure. I like Cryptocoryne Wendtii. They come in a few colors, have long/flowing leaves, and do great in lower light. They might melt back a little when you first put them in, but that's normal while they acclimate to your tank. Also, cryptocoryne species don't like to be uprooted so try and pick a spot in your tank and leave it there.
Thank you
Moss has teensy "leaves" and thrives in low light conditions though.
As a 4 month novice who is currently maintaining 3 10 gallon aquariums, (each with 20 neocaridina shrimp , 4 snails, a couple little rasboras and an otocinclis catfish) with 2-3 inches of basic aquarium gravel and novice friendly plants (amazon swords, coontail, guppy grass and java moss), feeding aqueon shrimp pellets and fish flakes and checking water parameters regularly, I am VERY grateful for the info you offer. I want simple set-ups that work as a system. i figure that the fish poop feeds the shrimp and the plants and so does the snail poop. The shrimp love eating stuff off the plants. the plants are thriving and i think that its because i am keeping it very simple and i managed to not freak out through some gnarly algae blooms. i will be upgrading my lights from the hood lights that came with the aquarium. They work fine, i just want to see more stuff. I saw some tiny worms on the glass, 2 days ago and i almost freaked out. instead, i added a rasbora to each of the tanks and didn't feed, yesterday. no worms, this morning. simple works. you help me remember that.
Finally someone with _good_ advice instead of just repeating the specs and selling products. Also, thanks for showing real tanks - not tanks planted 2 months ago on CO2 and pristine perfect.
He’s wrong about lighting. As a physics major, I assure you, he has it wrong.
@@NEnigma777can you explain it correctly please?
Thanks for sharing, Alex. We appreciate the information and effort you put into the hobby and helping us become more informed hobbiest 😊
My pleasure!
Great video! My first planted tank has been doing well (other than one loss within a week of a shipment), but its always nice to learn about what to look out for if things go wrong!
Cheers
You're the best aquarium CZcamsr along with Aquarium Co-Op. So much knowledge you share with us every upload!
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I kept messin up my tank by trying to make it what I wanted vs what nature wanted. Once I started listening to you about the No filter/no water change system it got wayyyy easier. 2 years goin strong on my deep substrate 29 gal with only 2 bubblers and no water changes ever.
Im so glad to hear that. Enjoy!
you need bubblers, or is it just for the looks of it?
@@TheWatchernator you don’t specifically need them but I feel my tank is healthier with the bubblers
@@CheeseBurgerXJprobably helps dissipate gases much more rapidly as long as it doesn't make your water move too much for what you have in it 😊
Wow, glad you showed that 5th tank. My 2nd tank plants are not thriving compared to my main one. Always learn something new from watching your videos Alex. Have a good day
Glad to help. Have an awesome day
This is exactly what I needed to hear. I just started a new planted tank, and some of plants are melting, and some turning yellow. I just got apt 2 fertilizer, I hope to see growth in the next several weeks. I totally thought I did something wrong. I have no fish yet, but I have aqua soil and I had inserted root tabs. When everything stabilizes, I’ll add my fish. Thank you!
since i watch father fish and you brother, i started to step in aquatics... im from exotic terrestrials keeping..
my 50gal dirted/nature/natural/jungle style tank doing well as of now.. also my 1st dirted
10gal shrimp tank are.stable ❤❤❤
love from philippines. cheers.
Exciting! Good luck my friend
You are amazing! I’m just getting ready to start a 29 gallon nano tank. Your calm, chill demeanor reminds me that this is a hobby and this is nature, so I don’t need to obsess and freak out over everything!
Good luck!!
I didn’t realize the difference between lights till I got a plant light. Now I have to convert over
Yeah it's pretty incredible
Great Video Alex! I still find it fascinating how all of it works together to achive a balance. One can have a Kessil light but all the others (proper substrate, proper filtration, proper fertilizer), it is just not going to work. Nature is amazing and we just do our best to copy it.
Great point!
Amazing info and been into your videos allot recently, thank u man!
Glad you like them!
Alex, your intro consistently brings a smile to my face. Thanks 🙏 hope something gets you smiling today too. “Laughter is the best medicine”
Im so glad to hear that... it makes me smile to read this haha. Have a great day
Amazing video...most amazing video on planted aquariums....thanks a lot!!!
Nice, have been looking for a vídeo like these for ages!
Glad you liked it!
Beautiful plants. I appreciate all the information. I’m not a pet shop person due to the lack of knowledge with who they hire. A college town here. A “Mom & Pop” store opened which on my visit was refreshing to meet. I will get on a schedule w/taking care of my tank. I appreciate all your help.
Of course!
awesome video! Great info about different plant and lights. I love fish tanks. So many different ways to aquascape it make for amazing levels of creativity
Sure thing! Its a fun past time for sure
Thanks for watching!
great info... Thank You
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and content Alex!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks fishtory nice information very helpful ❤
Any time!
Good info 😀
My giant swordplants have 2 different leafs. The emmersed leaves it came with when I bought em which are wider and darker green and the immersed ones which are thinner and light on color.
Both leafs seems to flourish under water which is perfect for me
Cool!
Great video as always ❤ thanks Alex ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have blue strip LEDs that surround the tank for ambient lighting, but I have a plant specific grow bulb that I used to acclimate the plants to water before putting them into the tank. About to install a white led strip for viewing. I have all the lights lol
Do you have a discord?
Nice one alex
Tbh as a complete beginner i have no issue with plants whatsoever. I have hard af water (35GH), i bought a really cheap light, and i just took whatever i saw that i liked in the fish store. So far (5 months now) everything l bought is thriving, some even got funny colors like white or pink, and i use no fertilizers, just my substrate. Plants are easy i love it
Right on. The water likely had a great mix of all the minerals that were needed.
I’m planting my tank again. My 5 clown loaches needed to move to a huge tank. They outgrew my 180. They didn’t try to destroy my plants but their size swimming couldn’t help but beat my plants up.
Woah big fishy fishies!
Great video.
Thank you kindly
Yeah there's more factors then some realize in keeping aquarium plants and that's why I think it's best to take things slowly and only ever mess with ONE thing at a time if things aren't working as intended, better not to risk stressing an already struggling organism even if it's "just" a plant, without plants we would've get the luxury of breathing so one should respect all life in their aquariums, even the sedentary life ^^
Also side note, details on that shop light that can grow algae that fast? I've got the Ultra Prograde Prolink lights from Home Depot and I feel like this is the longest a tank has taken to establish a biofilm and my beloved pond snails are hurting for food in a couple tanks and I still need a daphnia colony so funny story, but I need a light that encourages MORE and not less algae lmao, got saltwater nerite snails breeding and want a second generation outta them ^^'
Lol thats ironic
@@Fishtory yes lol
Sage advice ... as usual :)
Glad you think so!
Excellent
That video is helpful to me. 😊
Glad it was helpful!
@@Fishtory 👍🙂
“That starts a CASCADE of choices” ugh. The story of my life 🤪
I use the full spectrum led light bulb they are cheap but you can change color or dim.
Thank you for this video Alexander. Do you have any reliable source that you could point me towards about various plant requirements? A book, or website? Many thanks :)
Awesome video as awlays. I have a high tech tank and my more difficult plants arent doing fine, i was guessing about my pH, because my tap water is around 7-7,5 pH and I rarely do water changes and I top the water with also tap water, so now my pH is higher than 7,5, seems Im guessing it right, thanks alot!... I need RO water and more leaves for my 200 liter asap xD
Soft and mildly acidic water with low nitrates will help a ton. Slight flow and then strong lightm. That should do the trick
I have one of those Aqueon “plant” lights and while my RRF grow fast, they’re indeed more of pink root floaters. Threw some in a tub of dirty fish water outside and those are blood red now.
Haven’t found any info on how the co-op light affects color development in plants but I’ve been considering getting one. I can’t do a $130 light on my little 10g
Ill try and save up to try out a coop light soon hopefully.
I live in Austin Texas and I use store bought , Mountain Valley Natural Spring Water. I'm at no water changes, just top offs. I have a organic dirt tank, 2 ADA tanks, peagravel tank, Fluval substrate.
I have planted tanks and most plants seam to thrive. I have had the few that don't like the situation just like you said. 😂
Sounds great!
@fishtory I love the drape fin Barbs that is an underrated fish
Agreed!
Those are green when they are living in the Zambezi river too. Not that I ever get mine there LOL
I have Father Fish dirted tank. (Base soil with peat moss, worm manure (he suggests cow manure), bone meal, garden lime, epsom salt, iron sulfide (he suggests iron oxide)
It’s been 1 month.
All my plant roots are black even if I don’t plant them no more than 1 cm or 2 cm.
The substrate is bubbling but this decreased over time and doesn’t stink.
I don’t know why is this but I think this is caused by anaerobic conditions or the burning of the roots because of the nutrients.
Should I add 1 more inch of sand to put my plant roots?
Does adding more sand cause the death of the bacteria on the underlying sand and cause ammonia spike?
@Fishstory Hello Alex. I may have found out that I am not a bad plant keeper.
I found this on a website:
"Hard water and high pH makes it difficult for many aquatic plants to absorb important nutrients, such as iron and manganese. However, amazon swords, water wisteria, hygrophila, cryptocoryne and other species can grow well in hard water because they demand fewer insoluble nutrients."
This explains why the stemplants melt to the point where they die off and the swordplants fair pretty well.
I recently got a quote for RO water filter installation (for the entire home) with a bypass to still supply hardwater whenever i wish for it.
This coincidently would be perfect for aquatic plants and fish that lay eggs (I found out that hard water has too much calcium for fertilization of eggs).
Also if the water is too soft it will be calcium deficient which is probably also not ideal for shrimp and snails. This is where the bypass comes in.
Wish me luck. The installation will happen in 1 month. I might give Cambomba and other plants a try again after installation. Their fast growth and inability to absorb nutrient in hardwater explains the die off to a T
100% and good luck. Tip... Most amazonian sourced plants will be used to soft waters.... where as mwnt Indian, Bangladeshi. Malaysian and Thai plants live in limestone rich regions. Also most African plants in the hobby handle hard water resiliency
@@Fishtory That explains it. With high pH (lowered by CO2) and hardwater. Amazonians were a terrible choice to try to grow
I agree with all that, but with ramhorn snails their eggs mess up leaves and then they eat them ! Just something I've experienced, the eggs put holes in jungle val real good is one plant they seem to really like lol
That's definitely true
👍 I have some strange water parameters. My ph is around 8.0 KH 130 GH .25 or less and Total Alkalinity very low. All beginner plants in there but seem to be doing pretty good in a 40 gallon breeder stocked with cockatoo apistogramma cichlids. I have a well also .
Right on. Stick with what works best for you
This sounds a lot like my water, too. I struggled adapting a lot of my plants to it when I moved, but some have held on well.
@Check the Fish Box You wouldn't happen to moved to Florida? That's were I live Panama city
great video
Thanks!
I have not been able to grow plants, all othem disolves within 1 month, I only have plastic plants now . Any advice to start or try again?
How much does temperature affect things? I've started an outdoor tub (low tech) in Australia and my plants aren't doing that well. Water is about 10C
Temperature can play a large role in some plants. Some dont germinate or bloom without a certain temp and more importantly- the amount of time in the sun's rays.
Dude! You are so knowledgeable! I have learned so much! Thank you!🫶
You are so welcome
I have 3 java fern attached to a plastic pot in a 30 gallon tank and a wrgb light, a pair of small discus and 3 balloon gold Ram, how do i make the plants grow well?
Good water flow, good lighting, get a liquid fertilizer for aquatic plants... dose once a week after a 30 to 50% water change...that should cause java ferns to grow their fastest. Best of luck 👍
My water has a hardness of > 22 dGh and a PH of 7.5. From what I've seen, the only plants I can grow are Vallisneria, Echinodorus and Cryptocoryne. And with Vallisneria, I have a love and hate relation, if I let it in the tank it grows and propagate like crazy, if I get pissed and remove it, everything gets covered in algae.
So now, I have two 35 gallons tanks, one that have Vallisneria, with zero algae, but every two months, I must pull out lots of plants, disturb the substrate and make everything cloudy, and another tank where I've pull out all Vallisneria, have only Echinodorus and Cryptocoryne, but all is covered in algae, that I try to fight dimming the light and employing the "services" of 10 juvenile Ancistrus.
I have a video of plants that will live in hard water if you want a list of 25 plants to try. Cheers
I hear what you’re saying about the pH, but do we need to do anything with kH and GH ?
Or as long as we have the proper lighting and fertilization with proper pH will the plants do just fine ???
as long as they are not a
High Tech plant
Not really unless you want to get into keeping specialized rare fish and or keeping shrimp species
"few" plants. I burst out laughing 🤣
I have such a difficult time with plants! Would a dirted tank capped with sand be ok for plants that need aquasoil to thrive?
Totally
I have seen several videos by people using flood lights instead of lights made for aquariums. It sounds like that may not always work for all plants and tanks. If tou had to recommend a low, medium, and high price range light, what would you recommend? As a beginner, I find it difficult to justify lights that cost over $100, but I also have a bettwr chance at success with this!
I showed a flood light on that shrimp tank actually. They definitely encourage algae growth because they're not wide spectrum light, but they can be pretty powerful, if you know how to control algae already.
I always recommend CREE LED diodes...theyre dirt cheap and in many many generic and name brand lights, search for 6500 or 6000 kelvin lighting warmth and then cree diodes ... others work too, but ive had the best luck with LED flood or spot/shop lights from home depot or lowes that are 6500k or 6000k and about 12 to 20$ per square foot of lighting
What ferts do you use? Thanks.
isee snail eat dead tissue 1st, so hole in my plant come form pottasium deficiency. another knowledge tq
hate the term "emersed" because everybody always confuses it with "immersed"
Is there a reason that your aqueon clip light is mounted so high up on that piece of wood?
If you're interested I've got some Val. nana 'yabba creek' that stays 2" in the 50, can send some for the hard water tank!
Thanks i actually have some dwarf val strains too. That tank with the clip light is for ricefish and shrimp, so im only keeping crypts and floating plants for the fry. Its so shallow too, so i dont want to spend time maintaining it to Mach
What is the tall plant with long thin pointy leaves growing emergent out of the top of some of your tanks? Kind of looks like a bamboo or grass. It looks really pretty but I dont think I've ever seen it in shops.
Cypress maybe Cyprus?... but cypress helferi
@@Fishtory Oh is that what it is? I've seen that submerged and it looks different. Does it change form as it comes out of the tank? 😮 or maybe we're talking about different plants?
I meant the one at 2:30 at the back of the tank with reddish stalks and thin long leaves (sorry I probably wasn't clear enough before, my bad).
@@Fishtory BTW I don't know if you're already done this yet (if so please ignore) but I would absolutely love a video going through all the different plants you have growing in your tanks with species names, care info, and ease of growth etc. You have a really nice selection of plants and you clearly grow them really well - I'd love to hear more about them 😊
I have Father Fish tank with 1" of his soil & 2" sand. Talked to him & we're trying to figure out why the plants I got from him are melting & dying stem & all. The entire plant. I use his chlorine treatment-sodiumthipsulphate. We can't figure it out. Any ideas? I use a regular lid light that came with tank but on second tank doing same thing I use a hugger light on the white light though it still has red, blue & green mixed in. It doesn't seem to have a white only light. These are 10 gallon tanks.
I struggle sometimes with plants until they get used to my water. My Ph is usually about 6.5, but my hardness is always reading over 300. The TDS would make you weep lol.
Yeah thats a bit touchy with that combo ... i find south asian and african plants will endure that acidic but also hard water
@@Fishtory I should probably try bolbitis next. Anubias is doing fine as long as I don't try getting fancy with the nano petite variety. Those hate me.
Do you use a heater? How do you keep the temp in check?
I heat the whole room to 74...then individual tanks that need it, or when spawning, ill go to 86 at the high end
Sometimes vendors like Aquatic Arts sell what THEY call a plant when it's really a single stem cutting with a single root that barely stands a chance between shipping and the water difference.
I need this video like I need oxygen. Curious to see what the answer will be
I live in a building with softened water, except for one tap in the laundry room. That water has gh 31, kh20 and ph 7.8. I've been buying RO water and mixing it approx 3/2 or 2/1 approx with the onsoftened water. As my number of tanks has increased (MTS lol), it's getting rather pricey. What are the negative effects on both fish and plants, if I started using the softened water to replace the RO water?
Not too much if its consistent. Its swings in ph that cause most stress in fish. Add a cup of crushed coral or shells to every 10 or 20 gallons of tank and then use that soft water, and it should dial in around 6.5 or 7 ph using RO...Then top off with the tap water and gradually aclimate the fish to it
@@Fishtory Thanks. Obviously, you don't feel the sodium levels would be an issue. BTW, I love your videos. The depth of the info you give is excellent, as I've been in this hobby for over 60 years, and your videos are the best
I've found for learning new things.
I'm new to your channel. If you don't already, I would really enjoy a more in-depth video about hard water. I'm somewhat of a newbie. My first tank crashed. I think my tap water is too hard. It is above an 8 ph and is very hard (always the darkest color on the test strips)
-If anyone knows if he already has a video, can you let me know the name of the title so I can look for it.
Can use a hygger full spectrum
My water has a pH of 8.6 +. My GH is moderate to low, but my KH is high. Any suggestions on plants that would work well other than guppy grass is java fern? I'm having great luck with those two and several others but failing on many. Just want to see if there's something I haven't thought of. And java moss does okay.
I have hardish water pH 7.5 and stargrass, rotala, anubias, crypts, and dwarf sagittaria do surprisingly well for me. I would guess that Val Anubias and Sag would work just fine for you.
@@RoggyGrog it would be great to have a pH that low. I probably could grow a lot more plant
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I made the mistake of thinking because the plants were growing fast they were good , a year in they all lost their bottom leaves , ironically a poor light encourages stringy growth , its really an experiment with plants Ive tried loads in 4 tanks and will keep what does best
Great observation and info for folks. Thank you
I simply use 6400 K 20w LED spotlight (2 of them) on my 100 liter tank. Grow lights are way too expensive for my budget. Substrate is simply a mix of sand and gravel (again, budget and active substrate gets depleted over time anyway). Substrate must have been saturated with fish poop, bc I can grow plants in the inert substrate. I have some algea but it doesnt choke plants and is getting better.
I have Crypticoryne cryspatula, hygrophila corymbosa, alternanthera reineckii, hydrocotyle tripartita japan etc growing well. If you get your expectations right and choose the right plants I dont see any reason why it will fail. I only pump liq ferts one or two times a week, its more than satisfactory...
Excellently said!
My tank has been setup using water from a lake (very hard and alkaline). I'm slowly brigning back the PH to a more suitable level for fish using rain water to top off evaporation.
The plants that I took from ponds and rivers all melted under a few weeks. The ones that I got from that same lake are thriving.
QUESTION:
One of them plants that looks like a clod of grass (I don't know it's name) seems like it's dead.
All the leaves became rotten-brown but did not melt, the middle core is still green and it's not growing or doing anything.
Just like it has become "dormant" it it even possible ?
Temperature and ph can do strange things. Sometimes plants can take 3 or 4 months to die fully at the same time...but id say trim the dead or brown sections...they're just draining the plant's resources. Then youll see it the roots are keeping it alive...or if it was living off the dying leaves energy. Good luck 👍
@@Fishtory good point.
dude i've lost water sprite and moss over the last month and realized i forgot i had a big bag of ammonia remover in my filter still, and i don't feed my fish heavily, think i starved the plants
Probably exactly what happened! Or lighting
Do you have any videos that compare brands of lights for lumens/watts, etc?
A series called "let there be light, 3 episodes" of live stream is a deep dive... and then my hygger 957 light review compares lights within the same price range
@@Fishtory thank you!
Can I ask why the majority of people never fill their tanks up? I tend to notice it a lot and is there something I need to know?
It's usually if you don't use a lid, and or if you have jumping fish. Many fish breeders will do this, slowly allowing evaporation for the water to get harder and or more alkaline ad the tds and ph are simulating some time when the rivers drop levels and get more and more concentrated water with dissolved solids and even a temperature increase of half a degree d over 2 weeks. Fatten females with high protein foods...frozen or live to help egg formation. Then add the water back to the top with cooler water to spark the spawning
I have high PH hard water. 8.2 Ph, 300+ GH and 180 +/- Kh. Do you think that is too hard for plants? My snails and white clouds have always been fine, for like years. But I've never had luck with plants.
Thats probably too hard for most plants, yes. The ph is the bigger issue biologically. If you add aquasoil that buffers water and adds acidity, along with some almond leaves or sphagnum moss/bog peate then you could likely drop your ph to 7.5 ish im guessing... and i bet you'd have much more success. Check out my video on 25+ hard water loving plants...hopefully this helps you a little. Cheers
@@Fishtory Thank you for always taking the time to help!
Are familiar with the nutrient film technique?
I think so? But id love to hear more...in case we are thinking of 2 seperate things. Thank you
One is most important thing to people not grow the plants. It's take good plants and put into the aquarium and little bit come out the plants to take CO2 but after some week this plant not converted and die inside your aquarium so this is also main reason to people not getting planted aquarium. Like rotala and other plants
Yes if they are terrestrial they must convert first
I can grow swords like a champ....Fern? Nope. None of them. Forget any of the "tougher" non-Co2 needing ones.
Feel semi-brainless. TY for this :)
Alex his tanks produce so much oxygen, he overdoses on it when he visits his fish room 👌🏾
I do feel like my house has some really premium quality air haha
You have any planted tanks with ranch goldfish?
Ranchu
Whats up bro
Heyo
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My Valesnerias are not dying but not sending roots at all and I don’t know why
That's how val usually colonizes Substrate, especially if it isn't in richnutrients... it "reaches" to finding food
Hi I'm new to fish keeping. I started my first 55 tank using the FF method. Some of the plants are melting. Should I add fish or wait until they come back?
Also since I only have one tank. Can I use the sun to grow my tank?
Id trim the rotten stuff since your ecosystem isnt ready for that much organic waste yet. Maybe a 30% water change...and then fish should be fine to add
Hello how many watts is the 3.0 light
I believe the 24 inch is 18w
@@Fishtory ok thank you
I see duckweed in a tank, how you deal with that dread?
Daily lol
But it does prevent ammonia or nitrates from building up
I have very hard high ph Water. 7.8-8.1 pH depending on the time of day. like 600ppm GH 400ppm KH
It's been pretty hard getting plants to work, but I have found that my walstad style tanks actually work the best in this type of water. I think having very powerful light and super nutrient rich substrate makes up for the very hard water in some way. I also just kill a lot of plants lol. I needed to try like 40 plants to find 15 that work well. I have also done research that suggests that adding lots of extra potassium is important for hard water. I don't remember exactly why lol.
You are 100% correct. And the pottassium will both buffer the water some when bonding with minerals in hard water...and it helps plants grow dense, strong and well vasculated.
Astrophysics major here. I don’t know why LED lights are measured in Kelvins. It doesn’t make sense. In the real world, Kelvins measure the temperature of the color not the frequency. We use nanometers to measure the frequency of light. Red light will always be longer wavelengths and less energy. Blue light is short wavelengths, hotter (more energy). This is why blue stars like Regulus, Vega, Rigel, etc are the hottest stars. Blue has more luminosity. So in terms of brightness, you want to go by lumens. Even if the higher kelvin bulb appears brighter, it will not be as bright as a bulb with higher lumens
I only understood kelvin to mean how red or blue the LED is... i always wondered if that was a simulated number or direct measurement of something tangible in diode output. Thanks
@@Fishtory yeah, that’s so bizarre. Nanometers is how we determine colors. The shorter the wavelength in nanometers, the hotter the color: Violet: 380-450 nm (688-789 THz frequency)
Blue: 450-495 nm.
Green: 495-570 nm.
Yellow: 570-590 nm.
Orange: 590-620 nm.
Red: 620-750 nm (400-484 nm)
How do I lower my ph it’s 8.2
Add botanicals, like wood or leaves :) alder cones work great
A comment on those LED lights. They're too close to the plants and probably running more then 8hrs a day. I have some basic LED's for $20 and have no issues. Cuz "white" light has the full spectrum of colors aka wavelengths in it and the water also acts like a prism to break it up. Those fancy "grow lights"...are just that..."fancy".
I beg to differ. If you've grown orchids, tomatoes, herb or aquatic plants that flower... it makes a big difference to have those warm hues in the spectrum...and to have enough lumens / Par ...but i agree many are very over priced and you pay for branding or features that are not needed
@@FishtoryI have grown those and then some. Warmer lights actually burn hotter and are lower lumens. And the higher the lumens the cooler they are. Cuz wavelength.
The reason why grow lights only have blue and red cuz green is 90% absorbed by the plant...so they deem it useless or less "photon efficient". So they separated it out from their light fixtures. But plants utilize different wavelengths at different stages of growth for instance: utilizing more blue and green when they're seedlings but more more red when they're flowering or producing seedlings.
And it's even more different when the pant is submerged cuz water reflection/absorption.
I use regular white/cool LEDs cuz I don't have just plants in my aquarium but fish and other biodiversity. So the cool LED's are more well rounded for all of my ecosystem and don't target a specific plant phase or organism. :) I noticed that I also got a lot more algae blooms w/red and blue LED's then my white LED's when compared to how much hours/day I had the lights on and how close/far I had them above my aquarium.
My current project is trying to grow a watermelon aquaponically...in the middle of winter...
Wish me luck...
The real question is why I can keep plants just fine in 2 of my tanks but I can’t in my third. It even melted my water wisteria
Perhaps the ph and or hardness is different, and also the nitrates. Id need to see the test kit parameters for each tank to be able to assist you though.
@@Fishtory, nitrates are low and ammonia is non existent but I’ve not checked the ph I’ll have to look. My thing is my anubias grow fine and so does the horn wort but as soon as I plant anything it just melts
@@Fishtory, so I looked and the ph is between 6 and 7
Floating plants and my anubias do great but as soon as I plant anything it melts
It was close to a blackwater aquarium for a bit
Bam Margera
Okay
This will be me I have spent a lot of money on plants and they die
I did too lol
I don’t care for the Tornado just swept through look.
Understandable. I prefer dutch or iwagumi also, but all the tanks that are a big tangle, have fry bekng hatched in them.
I have an $80 nicrew light from Amazon and my plants grow great.
Nice. What model and price?