Fish tank Science: The Secret to Red Plants EP3
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Super excited to be sharing this video! I have done a ton of research into the science of how plants develop red colouration. After reading a bunch of articles online I found a couple of ways how we can get our plants to get the best shades of red. I also found one little myth that I had spent 5 years believing that it would result in brighter reds.
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Your videos get better every time, keep it up. I enjoyed how you were able to explain these concepts while keeping it concise
Thanks a ton Dr. I had a ton of fun making this one specifically
Wow so good advice and here I was thinking about purchasing Iron ferts as adding too much liquid ferts caused algea to my tank and now I not only do I not need to buy iron but I can cut down on ferts and be rewarded by bright reds 😊 thank you so much ...I'm now a subscriber 😊
Iron is still important for plants, its onr of the key nutrients for growth but over adding it wil cause big spikes in algae!
@@KalemsFishtanks ok I have continued with my purchase and ordered iron supplement 😀
I was led to believe it was iron that sends them red so u have shocked me a little there my friend thanks for all your info
Haha I was too! I was quite surprised when I couldnt find a single thing about iron
Great job Kalem! this video is a good, quick and detailed explanation.
Thanks so much leo!
Beautiful explanation, as a hydroponics pro, I second this fully...
Thank you so much for this valuable information! I will definitely be looking for a full spectrum light for my new sorority tank after watching this.
Awesome glad it helped! Cant wait to see it 😁
I can't believe you haven't blown up yet, just keep with it dude you are seriously making some quality videos with lots of helpful information!
Thanks a ton man! Really appreciate it!
Could you touch a bit on phosphate and its effect on leaf colour? Also, could you plant some red plants and demonstrate the effects of all that you are saying? That would help a lot. Dennis Wong has some videos but a bit more dedicated demonstration over a period of time would help a lot.
I should definitely try to do a demostration since a lot of the articles used for research on this video werent related to aquarium plants but the carotenoid pigment itself. As for phosphates and its relation to pigment you can limit it or nitrate and get the same effect. Limiting both wont have much effect honestly.
My red plants usually go bronzed red. But they look effective. This is with the appropriate lighting. 😂
What lighting do you use?
PlantGlo it has two 4ft strips of pink, blue and white led lights for my lagenandra meeboldii red. None of my other red plants survived but this one. It seems happy enough to propagate.
The best information I have had...thanks very much....
Thank you so much! It really means a lot
Awesome video Kalem , way to go👍
Thank you Errol! 😁😁
Good job, keep it up. Iron = Red is an easy slogan for the folks who live life wanting to buy a pill that fixed there alleged problem.
This was really interesting. I've been dosing iron and its giving me algae problems. Guess I'll stop with that and my plants will keep red.
dosing ferts does not cause algae mate so it will be something else causing it
Amazing channel loved it...but I have a question ..why do plants need to break chlorophyll down to carotenoids? Is that high light results into chlorosis so it automatically gets broken down
So to my understanding Ill try to explain it in the simplest way I can. The breaking down of chlorophyll leads to a signalling telling the plant to produce carotenoids for whatever reason. It doesnt really lead to chlorosis because we still have nitrates in the water just less. The high light leads to less need for chlorophyll and the lower amounts of nitrates kind of promotes it leading to carotenoid formation
@@KalemsFishtanks thanks for the explanation ..love it!
When I removed algae after some days ...my red plant was going to black.,and there are also some scratches and strap on them...I think it's going to die what will i do ??
Never heard of red plants turning black honestly no clue
Oh cool. So I have a fluval planted plus light so should I reduce the amount of white light and keep more blue and red to increase red color? Co2 is coming soon lol. I want that red plant you sold me to look awesome
I wouldnt mess too much with the spectrum it has set I think its pretty good maybe just look into nitrate limitation but the CO2 will help a ton!
@@KalemsFishtanks ok thanks!
Hey Kalem, with increased carbon dioxide levels do you not get increased acidity? How do you increase it without killing your fish due to pH?
So it definitely does increase the acidity and can kill your fish. I usually just raise it slowly and watch how my fish react. When you tweak it do it on a day where your around the tank and watch if your fish are up at the top gasping for air. If they are turn it down quite a bit.
Its kind of a trial and error thing that you have to play around with
@@KalemsFishtanks In high water circulation setups it is less likely that CO2 reaches toxic levels as it will be gassed off rather quickly. In lower flow setups, CO2 will reach saturation very easily, it gets even worse if biofilm develops in the surface. Also, PH will swing a lot in Lower KH water wich most plants seem to thrive in.
Ive been trying for long to get red plants. I haven't dosed any nitrogen in weeks and still most of my rotala is a yellow/green color. Im increasing iron and traces as think im deficient. I have a quite powerful t5 fixture with a pink grow tube and also injected co2 to about 40ppm. There is one stem which turns red and its seems to pearl less and is not in the path of the flow and co2. Should i dose any nitrogen at all?, i do have 6 month old ADA soil so its quite rich in N. I'm finding it very difficult to get them red.
So you should definitely still be dosing some iron just very low amount I usually add 2 pmm of nitrogen every second day. Im following an EI method of dosing. How many T5 bulbs do you have over the tank and what size is the tank?
@@KalemsFishtanks I have 3x 24w T5ho bulbs with Arcadia reflectors , it’s on a 60cm (60x30x40). I do have a bit of a GSA and staghorn algae problem too. I think I’ll start adding a bit of nitrogen again soon.
@@uraninite8151 that should hopefully do the trick for you cause that light should be plenty strong
@@KalemsFishtanks Thanks hopefully soon they'll be redder.
Bro. 10/10
So what does an oxy oxydator do for a planted tank ?
Like do you mean the thing that adds CO2 or an air pump?
@@KalemsFishtanks co2
@@mypeeps333 ok so the thing is plants are made up of 90% carbon and the main way they get that is through carbon dioxide ( CO2). In the water some will dissolve from the air into the tank but its not a lot. So in most tanks without CO2 the growth of the plants is slowed down. So you can kind of think of it as a fertilizer. Its something I use to speed up growth and harder plants usually need it as well.
@@KalemsFishtanks ty because I put oxydator in 3 of my planted tanks I was wondering if I did the right thing !
So all while we dose iron for green s and not red? Omggg
Iron is still an important nutrient but I think people assumed it made plants more red because of it red colour
I m from india how I buy
I cannot sell to india only Canada
A bad sunburn will turn the aquarium plant red.
Red color is a damaged plant.
I have never seen a UA-camr can keep the same red plant alive more than 3 months.
Is like a fall season leaves turn red right before the leaves die.
Generally, high light, high co2, high fertilizers with high iron content the more intense the red color will be.
Wanna show some studies of where high iron get red plants that arent aquarium pages? Red colouration is not a damaged plant either it due to a build up plant pigmentation molecules and the destruction of chlorophyll. Which leads to less photosynthesis so trimming and replanting is needed more often
@@KalemsFishtanks Please post a new 3 minute video of your red aquarium plants.
Are you red aquarium plants still alive ?
From what my experience when red aquarium plants turn red they are at the end of their lives from a bad sunburn. A bad sunburn is a damaged plant.
@@cutefish7317 well its not really a sun burt plant but I guess thats thats part of it. But its done by lowering the amount of chlorophyll (which plants use to grow) to convince the plant to make carotenoids (which give the colouration). So its a trade off. If you want fast growth or bright colours but there is some people who find the middle between of the 2. I havent found that balance yet I dont have enough light produced so the lower portions of my plants usually die off. And I imagine it may not be as bad if I had less of an rgb spectrum as well as low nitrogen