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All that makes a lot of since. So I guess the lack of nutrients started my NO3 problems? I thought my substrate would provide some of these micro nutrients. I was trying to avoid all the additives, but I guess that’s not going to happen. I know that I have a lot of light, but I don’t turn the...

ZxC Okay let me try to reply to everything. First thank you for you response to my problem, I want to learn. The Flourish Excel bottle says that it is “Bioavailable Carbon for planted Aquariums”. I stopped using this product when I got my CO2 system a few months ago. I clean my filter every...

CO2 system I have the Green Leaf Aquarium (GLA) regular and it is great. Good luck

I put my lights on a timer and broke up the day into two two-hour periods. The excel is actually carbon and I don’t use that anymore. I’m using flourish iron and active is phosphorus. Like I said counting on fish for nitrogen. I have a canister fluval filter the 300gph I think. I agree the...

My Severum keep laying eggs. They have hatched twice but we’ve only been able to raise one. The last batch, as soon as we saw fry I moved the male to another tank. The next day no more fry. The first batch I moved most of the dry to my planted tank and never saw them again. I suspect the Ram...

Looking forward to learning from folks who actually have aquariums. Thanks for allowing me to participate.

I have a 55gal planted tank with 8 fish (ram and tetra). I have a Kessel and a Fluval light with a GLA CO2 system. I don’t have a lot of plant probably 10 or 12. I am counting on the fish to provide Nitrogen and I add a little activate P with some flourish Excel ( not much). I am doing weekly...