Operation Dorito

[Sammy I]

Hi Sammy,

It's looking very promising 👌
What are you going to dose in the aquarium?

Thanks, exciting times 😁

I plan on dosing an APT3 clone with extra iron using salts I had left over:

160L Water Volume
1000ml - 40ml dose x6 days a week

7g KNO3
3g KH2PO4
20g K2SO4
20g Solufeed TEC SF
0.8g EDDHA FE
1g E300
1g E202

Which should give me about:
7ppm NO3
3ppm PO4
20ppm K
0.5ppm DPTA Iron + traces
0.1ppm EDDHA Iron

6ppm MG - 2tsp epsom salts after water change

 

[Sammy I]

Day 1 has gone well, Co2 turned on at the right time, and the auto doser and light programming worked so happy days. Starting off at 60% for 5 hours with 30min ramp up/down each side so 6hours total.

Co2 is pumping, this in tank neo diffuser is producing super small bubbles compared to the older versions so that's cool, drop checker was green at light on so won't need much tweaking to get to lime green and will monitor from there.

The flow seems good but I will end up with a secondary pump or surface skimmer on the opposite side to help once the plants are doing well. Some plants have become dislodged, I'll can sort that out during a water change, I didn't glue many plants, so most epiphytes can be moved around if needed.

The Oase is already making noises which is annoying, mainly some air trapped in the prefilter as there's a trickling noise. Hopefully that will be sorted soon once I do a breakdown and replace the gaskets.

 

[hydrophyte]

Looking good!

I'm imaging this filling out really nice as the plants grow in.