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New start - 70x35x40

razvaa

razvaa

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After I had american cichlids for 2 years I decidec that I want a planted tank again, so it will be a nature aquarium. I started this setup 2 days ago.

some specs
Tank - 70x35x40
Lighting - 2x24w 6500k
Filter - Tetratec ex 600
CO2 - citric acid and baking soda 1BPS, UP inline atomizer
Substrate - Tropica plant growth
Hardscape - some wood and river stones
Ferts - VIMI All in one, VIMI Accelerator

Plants:
Anubias nana "petite"
Ammania bonsai
Cryptocoryne x willisii
Echinodorus tenellus
Heteranthera zosterofolia
Higrophila pinatifida
Hydrocotyle tripartita
Microsorium pteropus “needle leaf”
Microsorium pteropus var. Windelov
Rotala macrandra green
Vesicularia Dubyana

I need some advices for the hardscape and anything else.

here's the tank ...

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2014-10-01 19.56.57 by razvan7722, on Flickr

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2014-10-01 22.40.05 by razvan7722, on Flickr

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2014-10-01 22.42.26 by razvan7722, on Flickr

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2014-10-02 18.11.23 by razvan7722, on Flickr

and here's the tank after 2 days
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2014-10-04 16.17.11 by razvan7722, on Flickr

What do you think ?
Cheers,
Razvan
 
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Move the wood away from the glass on the left.
Create more interest in the wall of stone at the front.
 
Move the wood away from the glass on the left.
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Thanks mate! Tomorrow I will do a water change and move the wood and maybe add more.

When it's good to start to add micros and macros ferts ?
 
eduard said:
Will Diy co2 produce enough pressure for UP inline atomizer?
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Yes, for me works very fine, you need to have enough pressure accumulated in the bottle.
I don't know if it works with yeast and gelatine DIY co2, but maybe I will try.
 
Up inline diffusers require 36psi of pressure to work. You better be very careful. 🙂
 
Tomorrow will be a week from setting up, everything is going good.
Please help me with some recomandations, when to start adding fertilizer and how to dose them ?

Thanks,
Razvan
 
razvaa said:
When it's good to start to add micros and macros ferts ?
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The moment after you put plants in the tank.

Start with a standard EI recipe and work from there, amount is dependant on the system water volume (tank+filter volume).

I use Aquarium Plant Food starter EI kit, with this recipe you dose 10ml per 50L for both micro and macro alternately 3x weekly, it's not the only solution to EI there are other systems out there, go and have a look in the sponsors forums.

🙂
 
Hi guys,
Today I started fertilization with 2ml of VIMI All in one and 1ml VIMI Accelerator. I'm so excited to see the results with VIMI, it's the first time when I use this line of productis.

Razvan.
 
After 3 weeks the lighting was increased to 8h without break, let's see the effects.
Maybe next week I'm going to add a few Amano shrimp and Otocinclus.

Cheers,
Razvan.
 
Hi guys, a lot of news about my tank.
Last tuesday I recived 6 Amano shrimp and 4 Otocinclus affinis and also arrived the package from CO2Art. I bought form them a drop checker, bubble counter and a needle valve and I'm very satisfied aboud the product quality. Wednesday morning all the diatoms are gone, I had a really big problem with these algae, the otocinclus have done a good job in just one night. Now the big battle is with the BBA who grows very fast.
Friday I bought from pet shop 9 Cochu's blue tetra (Boehlkea fredcochui). Their colors are beautiful but I don't know why are aggressive with each other. Does anyone have these fish and can tell me if they have the same behavoir ???

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Amano Shrimp by razvan7722, on Flickr

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Otocinclus by razvan7722, on Flickr

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Blue Tetra by razvan7722, on Flickr

sorry about the photo quality ...
 
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Those photos are great! Just because some people on hear can take extraordinarily sharp macro pics (with some extraordinarily expensive gear 😉) doesn't make your photos bad.
BBA is normally caused by poor or fluctuating co2 levels, perhaps now you have some better co2 kit your bba will go away 🙂
 
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