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  1. Sammiec0108

    VERY slow growth - time to add Co2?

    Early indications are that may have been it! Other plants perking up and more root growth too!
  2. Sammiec0108

    VERY slow growth - time to add Co2?

    thanks Darrel, i think that it might be something as simple as lighting. I use a black lid (split into 2 parts) with the fluval 3.0 running between them, but it is the standard fluval bracket meaning the 'spread' of the light is quite narrow and i wonder if by keeping the floating plants to the...
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    VERY slow growth - time to add Co2?

    Hi Darrel, thanks for this - below are a couple of pictures, one of the frobit (with various damaged leaves) and the other is the duckweed, come to think of it, i think the duckweed is also less abundant than usual, strange as I've only increased the ferts (and very recently the light) Any...
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    VERY slow growth - time to add Co2?

    Hi all, My tank has been running for just over a year now, i started with some low light easy care plants, java fern, crypts, Vallis, Java Moss and Anubias, however, following some algae issues i had reduced the lighting and added some duckweed which cleared up the algae but the plants have...
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    Pentazona Barb Help

    Thanks for this Mort, that all makes complete sense, the temperature got up a bit higher than my usual 77 or so over the last week so I think you may be right about turbo charging them into a breeding frenzy, the males have really coloured up into a kind of flame red which I guess would also...
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    Pentazona Barb Help

    Morning all, My tank has been up and running for a year now, i've had a shoal of 12 pentazona barbs who have been in the tank from the beginning and have always been quite dosile and timid. They have got bigger and now seem to be much more confident shoaling around the tank. In the last few...
  7. Sammiec0108

    Asian Biotope Algae Question

    Evening all, I run a 125l tank with a variety of low light plants (java fern, jungle val, some limnophilia sessiliflora (stems but currently floating, variety of crypts, water wysteria, Helanthium Quadricostatus and recently some java moss). I dose TNC complete 2ml daily and 10ml immediately...
  8. Sammiec0108

    Help!! New Tank Algae Explosion (perhaps)

    Thanks Weasel! OK so new plan (moving on from the previous, get the tank cycled asap plan). Lower the light intensity and photoperiod, i've reduced the intensity to about half of what it was with a lighting period of 5 hours. Double the dose of TNC complete continuing to dose daily. Hold...
  9. Sammiec0108

    Help!! New Tank Algae Explosion (perhaps)

    Thanks for the reply Edvet, that IS an algae explosion! So less lighting, and increase the fertiliser, is the increase trial and error and still daily or should i follow the TNC guidelines on the bottle and dose weekly? Also, should I be dosing liquid carbon or should i stop that if i am going...
  10. Sammiec0108

    Hello from Kent

    Thanks Hanuman, I'm not sure in reality what each level would actually equate to in my tank size, i think i've got a fair few things in there at the moment, some doing better than others, with not a huge amount of space around (I've got another thread going re: algae) but here's the starting...
  11. Sammiec0108

    Help!! New Tank Algae Explosion (perhaps)

    Hi all, Completely new to the hobby and just in the process of fishless cycling my first ever tank. I'm into day 10. The tank is 125l I'm using a Fluval 3.0 (photoperiod screenshot attached) - following the algae outbreak I've reduced the light intensity - it was at 100% as per the...
  12. Sammiec0108

    Hello from Kent

    Hi all, Complete Newbie here, just coming to the end of my first ever fishless cycle in a 125l tank. I've been a long time lurker, raising my ambitions and expectations by browsing the amazing tanks and scapes both on this site, across the internet and on youtube. Finally got the OK...
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