easycarbo killing my java?

[Tener ds]

hi all,ive been useing easycarbo for just under a month now in both tanks.
and today ive had to trim upto 20% off all my java ferns in both tanks!!
easycarbo is the only thing that has been changed.i dose as per instructions on the bottle,every day.Is this the wy my javas are going black?
i add ferts once a week to both tanks.
should i cut back on the easycarbo,say once a week,and up the ferts two 2 x a week?

 

[Irene0100]

I only use easycarbo every few days and often not the full dose. my java ferns are ok.
could anything else be attacking the leaves?

 

[Tener ds]

I only use easycarbo every few days and often not the full dose. my java ferns are ok.
could anything else be attacking the leaves?

The thing is it's happing in both tanks, both have diff fish in them. They both have amano shrimp tho.I'm thinking it might be cos I'm dosing every day.

 

[macvsog23]

The thing is it's happing in both tanks, both have diff fish in them. They both have amano shrimp tho.I'm thinking it might be cos I'm dosing every day.

yes dose every 2 or 3 days at a half dose
I do this no problems I have dosed every day at a half dose and it was fine but I slowed it down as i was getting some yellowing of small leaves.

Regards Bob

 

[Tener ds]

Ok, I'll try every 2 to 3 days. Hope they bounce back ok,
Cheers bob.

 

[Tener ds]

Ok, I'll try every 2 to 3 days. Hope they bounce back ok,
Cheers bob.

 

[FF MkII]

At the end of the day easycarbo is an algaecide, over dosing will kill plants so it could well be that.

 

[Tener ds]

i havnt over dosed it.
did a large water change both tanks today to try and remove any thats left in the tanks.

 

[jessonthenet]

Might find this interesting reading:

http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6854&start=30

Be careful adding too much as it will be poisonous to the shrimp.

 

[Tener ds]

good read there.

 

[Sambo]

Hi, Easy carbo is fantastic...I dose my 45l with half a mil per day... sometimes I forget so it's not seven days a week ..and my 85 litre with one ml at the same rate...maybe your java fern is propogating... this blackening happened to me recently in my 45 but I strapped the blackened bits to bogwood while re-attatching the plant down (thinking the decaying plant would feed the CRS-cherry red shrimp) and within a month tiny little plantlets had formed from the blackened bits which incidentally I had presumed the black fluff to be black brush algae which I had treated by syringe barrel with the easy carbo dose daily as had worked in the 85l, but these turned out to be roots, now there are about forty extra java ferns six months on..since first using easy carbo.