houseofcards

I'm trying to find out the "root" cause of my L.Aromatica's stalled growth. I've posted another thread trying to gather feedback so I apologize for the redundancy, but another thought occurred to me. Could this stalled growth by normal? I'm sure there are cases were stalled growth was caused by a lack of something, but I've upped all ferts, it's grown great for over a year with the same conditions. So I'm thinking this stalled growth might be natural and fiqures in the plants survival and it will start to grow again. Anyone have any thoughts on this or experience something similiar?

Bert H

That 'stall' I have experienced with some plants. I have always attributed it to something missing in the system that the plant needs. The only stall I have experienced with my aromatica was when I first planted it. It took it a couple of weeks to decided it was going to grow in its new home, but since then, no problems (knock on wood ). Perhaps your water source changed? I'm just guessing here.

Freemann

Well believe it or not stalled growth maybe too much NO3 (it is like that for me) in your aquarium try keeping it around 20 ppm with 1.5 ppm KNO3 daily, I know it sounds too little but with the help of your fishes it will prolly show 20 ppm in proper tests, make sure you keep your TE, Fe, PO4 "high" and your lights not to overburn mode.
Freemann

houseofcards

Thanks for the comments. So I guess no one is too keen on the idea that some plants just stall for reasons other than a lack of something. I'm not sure about the high no3 or the water supply because I'm very religious about resetting the tank each week with the 50% wc, so I would think nothing would be too far out of range.