Lauris
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Time for another photo spam - 6th-week update..
have a wee community tank now 🙂
- Hygrophila pinnatifida and Limnophila hippuridoidees
having some success with Fisidens, for a first time ever this one lives in my scape 2 weeks +
My wee community, so far so good.. no complaints from fish yet
Planted randomness.. Hygrophila is asking for a trim, but holding back myself.. there is something I like about the planted mess..
Cherry Barb
2 more of the same folk..
One of the Angels
Glowlight Danios.. these muppets are fast.. my lens AF kept jumping back and forth and still did not manage to get a good enough shot, the color is showing out well, I will try next time to get a cleaner shot
Front tank shot
and full tank shot..
so now about the issues.. at some point 2 weeks back I realized that whatever I have in my water, and whatever is in APT3 complete fertilization slur there was not enough potassium delivered to my water column. The first signs were of my Rotala bonsai and Alternanthera started melting from the bottom, could not figure it out until I spotted GSA popping up on my Anubias. Got potassium about 1.5 weeks ago and I'm now dosing 4ml daily (Seachem potassium) along with the APT3 complete 9ml daily. Melting stopped, GSA stopped.. getting back on track as that error wiped out 50% of my Rotala Indica Bonsai and 30% of Alternanthera reineckii mini.
Green'ish dust is covering the glass from the inside now on the 3rd day after WC, but all I can do about it is to keep up with the regular maintenance sessions. I'm afraid to cut back on ferts yet..
Other than that I can't complain much, I have put back the light to 75% of its power, 30min ramp up and down with a total of 7 hrs in a day. Water changes 2 times a week - 40% mid-week, 50-60% on the maintenance day. KH issue was nicely fixed by adding Seachem Alkaline Buffer to RO water, keeping it at 3-4KH, with this I can keep my PH at 6.3-6.4 with the controller that I have now also put on a timer. Kicks in at 8Am and turns off 30min before the lights fade out. In the morning my PH usually is at 6.8-6.9 but it picks up in an hour or so (because an external reactor is a very cool piece of equipment to have) to 6.3-6.4 and keeps it up for the rest of the day.
Thanks for reading 🙂
have a wee community tank now 🙂
- Hygrophila pinnatifida and Limnophila hippuridoidees
having some success with Fisidens, for a first time ever this one lives in my scape 2 weeks +
My wee community, so far so good.. no complaints from fish yet
Planted randomness.. Hygrophila is asking for a trim, but holding back myself.. there is something I like about the planted mess..
Cherry Barb
2 more of the same folk..
One of the Angels
Glowlight Danios.. these muppets are fast.. my lens AF kept jumping back and forth and still did not manage to get a good enough shot, the color is showing out well, I will try next time to get a cleaner shot
Front tank shot
and full tank shot..
so now about the issues.. at some point 2 weeks back I realized that whatever I have in my water, and whatever is in APT3 complete fertilization slur there was not enough potassium delivered to my water column. The first signs were of my Rotala bonsai and Alternanthera started melting from the bottom, could not figure it out until I spotted GSA popping up on my Anubias. Got potassium about 1.5 weeks ago and I'm now dosing 4ml daily (Seachem potassium) along with the APT3 complete 9ml daily. Melting stopped, GSA stopped.. getting back on track as that error wiped out 50% of my Rotala Indica Bonsai and 30% of Alternanthera reineckii mini.
Green'ish dust is covering the glass from the inside now on the 3rd day after WC, but all I can do about it is to keep up with the regular maintenance sessions. I'm afraid to cut back on ferts yet..
Other than that I can't complain much, I have put back the light to 75% of its power, 30min ramp up and down with a total of 7 hrs in a day. Water changes 2 times a week - 40% mid-week, 50-60% on the maintenance day. KH issue was nicely fixed by adding Seachem Alkaline Buffer to RO water, keeping it at 3-4KH, with this I can keep my PH at 6.3-6.4 with the controller that I have now also put on a timer. Kicks in at 8Am and turns off 30min before the lights fade out. In the morning my PH usually is at 6.8-6.9 but it picks up in an hour or so (because an external reactor is a very cool piece of equipment to have) to 6.3-6.4 and keeps it up for the rest of the day.
Thanks for reading 🙂
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