I have been growing planted tanks for years with no CO2. In fact, I sort of pride myself on how great they look without having to spend money on the CO2 setup. I just use all the right nutrients etc, and Excel in place of Co2.
Recently I decided to crank up the aqua-foliage in a 120g deep tank, the main fish is a 3 year old 10" Black Ghost Knife. I had been using 15ml of Excel per day, I doubled it to 30ml because I had some black beard algea and had just introduced a bunch of new plants.
My Black Ghost Knife now appears to be sick and dying. For the past few days he has been floating veritically, still alive etc, etc...
Is there any history or correlation with Flourish Excel and fish like a Black Ghost.
(I am thinking maybe, because I had a heavily planted 36G that I was heavily planted and I used a lot of Excel that I could never keep an Elephant Nose alive in despite other fish doing quite well, and it being a relatively quiet tank)
Recently I decided to crank up the aqua-foliage in a 120g deep tank, the main fish is a 3 year old 10" Black Ghost Knife. I had been using 15ml of Excel per day, I doubled it to 30ml because I had some black beard algea and had just introduced a bunch of new plants.
My Black Ghost Knife now appears to be sick and dying. For the past few days he has been floating veritically, still alive etc, etc...
Is there any history or correlation with Flourish Excel and fish like a Black Ghost.
(I am thinking maybe, because I had a heavily planted 36G that I was heavily planted and I used a lot of Excel that I could never keep an Elephant Nose alive in despite other fish doing quite well, and it being a relatively quiet tank)
