I feel like a butcher

[Trillianne]

Apparently I've not yet gotten the timing and quantity of ferts just right yet. The plants are doing better I think.. in fact right after vacation, I was downright happy when I got home and thought they looked super. Then there was a few weeks of no ferts because I ran out and now I'm back to cutting off old leaves.

Hopefully the new ferts will kick in and with the butchery-work my plants will pick up.

[Brhino]

I know exactly how you feel! My tank gets completely overgrown if I let it go, but I still feel bad cutting back anything. I have a paranoid fear that for some reason my plants are all going to die and then oh boy I will sure regret pulling out those vals that were crowding out the java ferns.

[Goes to 11!]

I can only empathize and add that my hands have the same blood on them :-P

[Trillianne]

Well at least I've not killed most of them!

Aside from some Vals to Excel and a wisteria that I deliberately removed... and that moss stuff that didn't attach so it all got sucked into the filter...

[bignellm]

My hands, they're stained with chlorophyll!!!

Been there with the plants. For some reason I've always had some issues with broad leafed plants. But so far this year, that lucks turned a corner. My Hygro and Amazon are kicking into high gear lately.

My victims though involve Java Moss, Vals, More Vals, Anacharis, Myrio, and Money Wort. Seems odd, doesn't it. Well, somehow I managed to kill off these populations at one time or another.