Re: 17 US gallons excel supplemented tank.
A little picture update.
Got some hygrophila polysperma rosanervig , cabomba (this one had never failed to melt completely during all my previous attempts). Also added some staurogynes in there to fill up the foreground a bit. Everything is just fine so far.So far no major issues. No issues at all actually. Pruning rates are next to none.
Mmmmm,....that co2 cannister is just lying there,...unused,...alone,...neglected,....along with its best buddy the UP atomizer. Should I ask for trouble or should i just be patient & leave things be.
My wife's finally come around to the idea that faizal loves planted tanks.
She constantly asks me why is it that the other tanks on youtube look nice and bushy but mine still looks kinda empty after so long being set up ( Hence the effort made to purchase some cabombas to "bush" things up). I keep telling her that those tanks belong to Mr Amano & Mr Mark Evans,...they are supposed to look like that. 😀
So here's how it's looking now: Nothing great,..but feels nice when I get to share it with you guys.
Oh yeah,...I just played around with the PAR readings the other day,...very very low indeed.
Some areas of the substrate are around 8-10 but the plants are looking healthy. At the surface it's between 30-40 only. What'd you know? 😀 The new leaves are growing,...albeit very slowly. It's almost like a non co2 tank,...but not quite. 🙂
The tank's around 17 US gallons,..so I am dosing 2.3 ml of excel daily ( a bit more than it is recommended on the bottle). 8.5 ml excel (as per bottle's recommendation) weekly after a 50% water change. Haven't cleaned the filter yet, hence the dirty looking tubes. Macros twice weekly and 2ml of seachem flourish iron & 2ml of seachem flourish comprehensive for micronutrients. Daily small water changes ,....anywhere between 15-20%. I dose the nutrients & excel after these small water changes. Melting of most leaves sort of stopped about 2 weeks ago. But the echinodorus tenellus still has lots of its emmersed leaves on it. There are just a few of them showing the submersed leaf forms but not much,....is it safe to give it a major trim to encourage the submersed leaf forms to come out now?
A little picture update.
Got some hygrophila polysperma rosanervig , cabomba (this one had never failed to melt completely during all my previous attempts). Also added some staurogynes in there to fill up the foreground a bit. Everything is just fine so far.So far no major issues. No issues at all actually. Pruning rates are next to none.
Mmmmm,....that co2 cannister is just lying there,...unused,...alone,...neglected,....along with its best buddy the UP atomizer. Should I ask for trouble or should i just be patient & leave things be.
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My wife's finally come around to the idea that faizal loves planted tanks.
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So here's how it's looking now: Nothing great,..but feels nice when I get to share it with you guys.
Oh yeah,...I just played around with the PAR readings the other day,...very very low indeed.
Some areas of the substrate are around 8-10 but the plants are looking healthy. At the surface it's between 30-40 only. What'd you know? 😀 The new leaves are growing,...albeit very slowly. It's almost like a non co2 tank,...but not quite. 🙂
The tank's around 17 US gallons,..so I am dosing 2.3 ml of excel daily ( a bit more than it is recommended on the bottle). 8.5 ml excel (as per bottle's recommendation) weekly after a 50% water change. Haven't cleaned the filter yet, hence the dirty looking tubes. Macros twice weekly and 2ml of seachem flourish iron & 2ml of seachem flourish comprehensive for micronutrients. Daily small water changes ,....anywhere between 15-20%. I dose the nutrients & excel after these small water changes. Melting of most leaves sort of stopped about 2 weeks ago. But the echinodorus tenellus still has lots of its emmersed leaves on it. There are just a few of them showing the submersed leaf forms but not much,....is it safe to give it a major trim to encourage the submersed leaf forms to come out now?