Planted Tank Aquarium Plant Deficiency Chart

This is episode 2 of my first freshwater planted aquarium.

Planted tank aquarium plant deficiency chart.

The easiest way to observe if you have a nutrient deficiency is to study the health of the plants. You want to have level of co2 20 30 ppm in your aquarium. In tanks with low growth plants will often take 1 2 weeks before to show signs of deficiency. It s a 10 gallon tank and about 3 weeks old as of today.

It is very difficult to provide the exact amount of nutrients because the nutrients level is difficult to measure. Deficiencies of water plants are often hard to diagnose because damaged leaves look very similar. Co2 deficiency is usually the biggest problem. But in high growth tanks plants might start showing signs of deficiency within a couple of days.

Despite this fact in this article we will try to describe the most important deficiencies. As mentioned earlier plants are photosynthetic organisms that utilize light as an energy source to facilitate biological processes. The sooner you know about the problem the better it is and the easiest it is to solve it so even in a high growth tank you should look at the fastest. Take care to examine your plants on a regular basis and jump on any nutrient deficiencies and you ll create a beautiful thriving planted aquarium.

Don t underrate water flow. Live aquarium plants come in a variety of colors but the most common color is green if the plants in your tank begin to turn yellow it could be a sign that there is a problem with the conditions in your tank. A nutrient deficiency can create big problems in a planted aquarium sometimes a nutrient deficiency is caused by an excess of another nutrient.