The one at the front is Tiger and at the rear is Red, strangely enough the new leaves of both have grown with pretty similar colouration under this light whereas they were easy to identify before.
No, I think keeping the light at a sensible intensity during start up is paramount, understandably people with new scapes want ot see instant success but playing the waiting game reaps rewards. However, I did plant some C Parva from the Nano and a couple of weeks later noticed BBA growing on the fringes of the leaves and I believe this was possibly the initial inoculation of it although it has never become problematic, just occasionally finding an odd tuft down at substrate level (close to any organic waste) or in the high flow area across from the outlets. I probably could have eradicated it if I had tried but never really bothered.
I don't know if there is a path as such but I believe stability is the most important factor, even if the parameters are not ideal most plants will adapt to stable conditions provided, albeit growing suboptimally. Obviously we have to tweek to get things right but constant fluctuation is always going to leave your plants on the backfoot. There used to be an old adage banded about on here and it was 'make one change and wait a few weeks to see the result before changing anything else' not that this is relevant but it does explain that plants need a week or two to adapt to any changes.
I'm keeping my eye on this and it is looking good, I would imagine you're happy with where you are now compared to a year ago.
I also used FloraBase which is not saturated with Ammonia but still did daily 60% water changes for a month.
