Plants Wont Grow

[James From Cali]

I had my plants for a good 3 weeks I guess(almost) and I have not seen any new growth. The plants are:

Brazillian Pennywort
Water Hyssop(Moneywort)
Sunset Hygro
Rotala Rotundifolia
Green Hygro
Wendtii Crypt

I have a 20 watt spiral on it for now and I will be getting a new 15 watt bulb for my fixture. I stopped dosing ferts because of a little algae breakout that I had been getting rid of. What do you think the cause of the slow growth could be? I thought these were suppose to be fast growers. The Crypt leaves are kinda droopy but I think it is just crypt melt.

 

[tropicalfish]

Why do you want to go from 20 to 15?

 

[James From Cali]

Well the 20 watt bulb is my moms lamp. And she is going to buy me a new light so she can have her lamp back. But I am planning on upgrading the lighting as soon as I can. I know its like "why would you do that" but its a little unsafe on how it is situated.

 

[Grumpy_Marine]

what algae were you battling? why stop dosing ferts? Do you have CO2? What were you dosing? My stem plants took a while to start, i planted and kept replanting for about a week to two weeks, then like wild fire they started growing and haven't stopped. What i had to do was up the CO2 output and increase ferts a little to get mine to grow, i had outbreak of algae but the plants battled and outgrew the algae now all is well in tank.

 

[James From Cali]

I had some thread algae it is going away now. It was mainly on my moss but that is cleared up and now there is alittle on my wood so Im just going to wait out the week until dosing.

I was dosing:

Greg Watson Dry Ferts(Mono Potassium Phosphate and Potassium Sulfate)
Plant Grow[Fe(Iron) and other trace elements]