having no luck with marine plants in tank

I have a red sea max 130d 34 gallon Fowlr ..27 lbs of live rock 30 lbs of live sand, nitrate 15-20 amonnia 0 nitrite 0 oh 8.0 water density 1.022 , 2 clowns , 1,blue green chromis., the problem is everytime I put a marine plant in it dies, like a shaving brush plant , 2 weeks and died,,could
it be calicum low? Not enough nitrate?

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Permalink Reply by Salty Wayne on December 24, 2011 at 5:37pm

could be the light spectrum you gotta think if you have no nitrates in your system what are the plants going to eat? thats why in the ocean NO3 is always present

Permalink Reply by Alec(Creolity) on March 3, 2012 at 10:27pm

your nitrates are a lil high needs to be around 5-10 but then again i know nothing of marine plants just more or less corals

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