nry said:
baron von bubba said:
ok, so i'm not the most experienced person around here but would it possibly be better to have your power heads on the back wall pointing in the same direction as your spraybar, so they compliment each other rather than give an uneven flow pattern as it is?
is it a new tank set up also?
if so the plant biomass seems a tad on the light side.
Guys
Last August 2008 I had a problem with a tank and I had to buy another one rather quickly as I had fish and plants in buckets, fish and substrate are approx. 16 months old. I lost a lot of the plants due to them being in buckets, so it was a case of replanting. Picy attached as the tank was @ 23.11.2008.
The tank had the original hood, filter was a Ex1200, Co2 kit was by Dennerle - diffuser was Dennerle ladder system, fertz added was by easylife – Profito, Ferro, Fosfo and Nitro - everything was honky dory apart from some of the leaves were suffering a deficiency see attached picy.
I posted a thread regarding the condition of these leaves and I was advised that it was a fertz issue and too double dose the Profito, things stayed the same – plants requiring high light levels died. I was also advised to try E.I as it would be cheaper than buying off the shelf fertz, so I purchased the powders and did my mix as per the E.I article.
If you want the honest truth the tank has been on the decline since I started E.I dosing and reading other threads of people who have started E.I dosing are / have suffered issues / problems with this.
Still having issues and numerous threads posted – replies, increase Co2, ladder system could not cope with the amount of Co2, purchased an Aqua Medic 1000 reactor, concerns raised regarding lighting – replies lighting should be ok but increase your Co2, increase circulation – so I bought an Ehiem 2080 rated @ 1700 lph, then I found out that it only produces 825 lph once full of media (test carried out) with in AM reactor inline its only 600 lph, that was a waste of £250.00 – should have kept my old 1200 running.
That why the thread was posted “packing in†spending money on tank and its going no where.
Thanks to you guy’s who took time to reply to my thread and convinced me to stay – I thank you
So I purchased 2 x HK 2 pumps and bought a new lighting hood, as I was convinced that a lot of the issues regarding plant growth was down to lighting and nobody Inc. the so called “experts†would put there heads on the block and say “YES†its lighting – the only thing they say is
“INCREASE CO2 LEVELSâ€.
So – Co2 at its maximum, Lighting improved dramatically, circulation improved, the only thing that left is fertz – so double dosing as I need to improve the fertz as I have improved everything else the uptake of plant nutrition will increase.
Perhaps we need some engineers here to work out logical solutions to the issues / problems we have with aquairiums.
Regards
Paul.
