The Plant War Has Begun - The Shrimp Show: Episode 6

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This is my main fish tank, the “Dragons Den.”
My goal was to leave the tank until the next video but I just couldn’t do it. I ended up pushing the decor back into the corner and adding a few plants. There has been a war brewing between the slow growing Java fern and the fast growing vallisneria. They are both potassium hungry plants and they will do battle until only one remains. I have been doing more frequent water changes to help replace the missing nutrients and dosing extra fertilizer to help these babies duke it out.
This tank is home to: 2x neon tetras, 2x panda corys, 10x harlequin rasboras, 1x stick fish, 3x black tetras, and multiple multiple Neocaridina shrimp.
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[@OutdorsDanny]

Cool video man, glad youtube threw it at me. Are you sure there's not enough nutrients? If you have hair algae growing, it's probably quite a bit. You probably already thought it but Maybe get some root tabs. It shouldn't make the algae grow too much Because you strategically place them. Those plants are all too cool to see any die fighting for nutrients. I would totally buy some of that mystery plant off of you. There's also the possibility you're shrimp are eating your plants.

[@ShrimpDaddy94]

I think it is a nutrient deficiency, I have been trying to dose more fertilizers and do more frequent water changes but I think the Java fern are eating up all my potassium

[@ShrimpDaddy94]

I also can’t raise my nitrates because the plants just consume it all so I’m trying to gradually up the amount of fertilizers I use. I check every 3 days and I’m always like 0ppm to 20ppm

[@OutdorsDanny]

If you're up for it and you should check out my latest video. I have a bunch of shrimp coming in soon, and we'll have a lot of cool shrimp content.