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NACD Nature Aquarium

Raquascape said:
Thankyou.

I dose tropica specialised 3 pumps a day and premium 2 pumps a day, along with 2ml TNC carbon. My lights are on 75% power (twinstar 600ea) and co2 24/7 always lime green.

Look forward to hearing from you,
Ra
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Lights and CO2 seems ok.

Liquid carbon too.

Tropica ferts are very lean dosed, I would suggest stop using both of them, using only specialised at very High dosage or trying.something more easy to dose (like.aquarebell npk or seachem ) to get better growth and algae control .
 
CooKieS said:
Lights and CO2 seems ok.

Liquid carbon too.

Tropica ferts are very lean dosed, I would suggest stop using both of them, using only specialised at very High dosage or trying.something more easy to dose (like.aquarebell npk or seachem ) to get better growth and algae control .
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I shall start dosing specialised only, bit higher dosage see how it goes, thankyou 😀

Ra
 
One week of growth.

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Eleocharis is struggling like the MC, might swap this out and have a full foreground of Parva?

I've since started dosing Tropica Premium only, plants are responding well. (8ml a day). After watching a recent green aqua video I'm now trying to aim for a constant 120TDS by using RO water remineralised with around 25% tap water, I didn't keep up with this last time so this will be another learning curve to see how the tank responds 🙂

Cheers,
Ra
 
The hot temperatures in the UK right now means my tank is around 27°C, not sure how to cool it down, anyone else got this issue at the moment?

My Buce has melted and algae is having a party. Woohoo.

Cheers,
Ra
 
DeepMetropolis said:
My tank water gets hotter sometimes if it's really hot outside but I don't have an problem of buces melting or more algae.. Only fish that want to spawn. There are special fans available that you can hang on the rim of your tank..
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Me neither, only gets yellowing mosses when over 30 degrees...should be another cause
 
Not sure if it's just me, but looks to me like your plants have quite big gaps between leaf nodes like they are struggling a bit for light?
 
Nice Mate.

It seems that you have not enough co2 level on the bottom to grow.carpeting.plants...and surface agitation looks very heavy.

You could try this:
Lily pipe as outflow to avoid degasing too much co2
Inline CO2 diffuser (qanvee or CO2 art).for.better dissolution

Anyway, stems and mosses looks great 🙂
 
CooKieS said:
Nice Mate.

It seems that you have not enough co2 level on the bottom to grow.carpeting.plants...and surface agitation looks very heavy.

You could try this:
Lily pipe as outflow to avoid degasing too much co2
Inline CO2 diffuser (qanvee or CO2 art).for.better dissolution

Anyway, stems and mosses looks great 🙂
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Thanks cookies always great to hear from you mate

I will try to direct the flow from the skimmer more toward the bottom for better CO2 distribution. My lily pipe broke about a month ago haha, my heart sunk. I will buy another soon!

Plants are doing OK, I have a staghorn algae issue though, I will lower the light see what happens?

Cheers,
Ra
 
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Another update!

I discovered that using maybe 2ml a week of specialised fertiliser and dosing liquid carbon into the water column has gotten rid of all the algae apart from BBA. My light is dimmed to 60% also. The wood used in the scape was shop brought out an existing tank so may have had some BBA spores lying about which doesnt help! Quite frankly the BBA isn't too much of an eye sore, it's gives the tank a more natural feel I suppose. I'm also using tap water again, RO water is time consuming and the tank seems to benefit more when just using tap water!

Hope you guys are all okay,

Cheers Ra
 
Raquascape said:
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Another update!

I discovered that using maybe 2ml a week of specialised fertiliser and dosing liquid carbon into the water column has gotten rid of all the algae apart from BBA. My light is dimmed to 60% also. The wood used in the scape was shop brought out an existing tank so may have had some BBA spores lying about which doesnt help! Quite frankly the BBA isn't too much of an eye sore, it's gives the tank a more natural feel I suppose. I'm also using tap water again, RO water is time consuming and the tank seems to benefit more when just using tap water!

Hope you guys are all okay,

Cheers Ra
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I just went through the whole thread. Very nice tank, scape and set up!
It is good to see that you lowered your Tropica fert dosing. I was wondering during reading that you were dosing so much.
With your 2ml per week, you might be a little low. The recommended dose for 50L is about 5-6ml.

I am glad to see that your algae problem is solved.
The tank looks great.
 
Janci said:
I just went through the whole thread. Very nice tank, scape and set up!
It is good to see that you lowered your Tropica fert dosing. I was wondering during reading that you were dosing so much.
With your 2ml per week, you might be a little low. The recommended dose for 50L is about 5-6ml.

I am glad to see that your algae problem is solved.
The tank looks great.
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Thanks matey, it means a lot!

I since tried the recommended dosage of 6ml every week so I dose that during a WC and never looked back haha.

Yeah just lots of BBA like I’ve mentioned, definitely from the wood, I think it needs chucking in the bin. I'm think of starting a new rock only scape soon. Iwagumi or something 🙂

Here's the tank as it stands today.
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And an 11 month comparison photo 😀 How time flies.
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Ra



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