Help 90g, Dutch style, first try

[BranchScape]

CO2 is best kept at 30-40ppm, IMO, regardless of light! CO2 is often the bottleneck for our plant health in many cases (not all, just many).

A tank with high nutrients/aquasoil, medium light, and high CO2 is almost always a guaranteed success. Even low light + CO2 is excellent for our tanks.

I messed this up for a year, inconsistent or low C02 and not enough nutrients. Your journals really helped me, so I want to say thank you.

 

[riioKen]

Hey guys few weeks since I post last update.
But here we are...


Yesterday I've made a trimming session and I have something juicy to show you...


The xyris red gave me 5 baby plantlets (1 is off camera)
Funny thing is, the mother plant is the one with holes in the middle. The bigger ones behind was the first child of her LooL.

You can easily see that a new plantlet is growing again and the one behind has another one growing too...

I don't know if this is a good sign ahaha.

The quinquangulare in the right is the plantlet of this girl here:

Which looks a bit unhappy, probably it didn't like been separated from its child.

But now I would like you to ask for an help:
Some plants have pinholes, at the beginning I thought it was due to a massive snails infestation I had. Now I still have snails, but its number is very very small (~30 at max)






This symptoms, is lack of K?

I'm dosing 12-3-18 weekly, should I push K to 20?

The Ammannia pedicellata golden seems very unhappy and it almost can't grow properly

Mgso4 and CaSo4 is around the 5 1:4 ratio for caso4.

Any help?

 

[Mr.Shenanagins]

I could be wrong but I don’t think those holes are nutrient related, I think that’s from your snails snacking.

 

[Beza]

But there seem to be only bladder snails, where just about anyone swears that those won't attack plants unless they are melting already. Any other snails or potential plant eaters present?
And just a thought from a newbie - if that is indeed lack of K, that would start pinholes around which the plant leaves are dying, so the snails just clean it up. I'd go and test the K before jumping to conclusions.

 

[riioKen]

around 7 gigaAmano (2 are males and small, while the females are all eggnants)

Amano are known for snacking on plants, especially althernathera. But the ones affected are:

• 2 althernathera (kleines papageinblatt and lilacina)
• acmella repens is highly affected
• nymphea red lotus
• xyris red