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This is looking super nice!

Overall pretty happy with how things have gone. My main concern is the BGA that is neither going or increasing in mass. The place where it appears is in good flow and nitrate levels seem to be fine. Also hopefully my photography will get better with practice, any advice on that would be...

4 weeks (post trim)

4 weeks - (pre trim) BGA taking hold on the moss by the water surface. Whenever I try to remove it small bits drop off and get caught in the hairgrass. If anyone has any advice it would be muchly appreciated. Flow and Nitrates seem to be fine.

23 days (better camera) Finally dug out my camera so no more phone pics :) Hairgrass getting long now! Diatoms in full swing. Some moss tied back on and some BGA appearing on moss. Rotala going crazy!

18 days All the moss apart from the top section has now fallen off. Diatoms blooming everywhere. Hairgrass thickening up while ferns seem to be doing nothing.

10 days Hairgrass starting to fill out, emersed Marsilea growth sending runners through substrate and starting to turn brown on top. This is the point I realised I'd made a massive mistake tying all the moss on with cotton. First few bits of moss start to drop off as the cotton disintegrates.

week 1 So far so good. Hairgrass seems to be taking nicely. Due to the filter and heater coming from an already set up aquarium the fish were introduced immediately with an Evolution Aqua Pure aquarium bomb along with a mature filter.

Plants: Dwarf hairgrass 'mini' 1-2 grow! x5 Marsilea Crenata 1-2 grow! x4 Weeping moss x2 Bolbitis difformis in vitro Pearl moss tissue culture Staurogyne repens 1-2 grow! Hydrocotyle verticillata Pogostemon Helferi Cryptocoryne Beckettii 'Petchii' Java fern trident 2x Java fern mini 2x Java...

Substrate: Tropica Aquarium Soil Hardscape: Redmoor wood Mini landscape stone

Hi, here's the journal for my latest tank. It's been a few years since I set up a hi-tech tank so I've had a to do a lot of refreshing and catching up. This will be my 3rd set up over the past 8 years and as with the previous tanks nearly all the knowledge I've applied has come from this forum...

Great, thanks!

Thanks Konsa, so I can dose macros in the evening after water change and micros in the morning the next day without this having a detrimental effect on the phosphates and iron?

It's usually water change in the evening, dose micro in the morning, then macro the next morning, then water change that evening. I guess it could be worth dosing in the evenings instead so the nutrients has had time to properly disperse into the water column by the time the lights get going.

Hi, I set up my 100l hi tech planted tank 3 weeks ago. I've seen strong growth in hairgrass carpet and stem plants and not so great growth from moss and ferns which I assume is fairly normal while they initially adapt. Around 2 weeks in diatoms and small amounts of BGA started to appear, again...