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Hello, I am buying some K (potassium) and see if that helps. I do have tiny brown pin marks on the plants. Iron always reads 0ppm. I read elsewhere to keep dosing until the plants saturate with FE, then you only need to add to keep FE at a sensible level. HOwever you with your 30 years...
Hi,
I was experimenting. I have adjusted it now so that co2 comes on an hour before the lights, and an hour before they go off. Lighting is now at 7 hours. The algae is growing much stronger now though. I am baffled.
Hello,
My nitrates are actually 10ppm, not 5ppm. I mis-read. I am now starting to add 10ml of PO4 everyday, this takes PO4 to about 1ppm. I will make that more constant and see how it goes.
I am using pure RO, and then adding my GH and KH with a JBL product. Something is defeintely not...
Dear All,
I am having some problem with algae, its a tough stringy type of algae. My tank is 26G, I run x1 Giessman Aquaflora and x1 Giessman Midday 6000 bulbs about 5 hours a day. Very highly recommend bulbs apparently.
I run CO2 3.5 hours a day. The light and CO2 are on timers. Both...
Hi Rivers,
Okay so over the past week, I have done 4 25% WCs using RO. The parameters are as follows:
GH:5
KH:4
PH 7ish
TDS around 200
Nitrate 20-25
Adding a weekly liquid fert with extra iron from time to time. I also have to add PO4 as its always zero when I check with JBL test kit.
The...
Dear All,
My lampeye's have given birth to one baby / fry. I have moved him to a nursury tank with no other fish in it.
How could I best care for him? What does he eat?
GH is about 4, TDS about 200. PH is a bit high at 8.0, 24C temp. I use RO and Co2 in the main tank (where he came...
The tank is 100 litres or 26G (US). Plenty of room for more. I could add some more CPDs, but thing is, I am trying to keep Nitrates down. The tank is under stocked at the moment as you can see. My tap water is 40ppm Nitrate and so I have started buying RO (which I reconstitute myself) from...
Dear All,
I have noticed spawns of the below in my tank recently. I have some snails in the tank and 6 small fish:
x2 Celestrial Pearl Danio
x2 Lampeye
x2 Ember Tetra
I have three small pond snails of which I noticed mating recently.
If someone could help me identify the eggs that would...
Thanks, I'll reframe from adding minerals unless GH/KH gets below 4.
Will be very interesting to see how the macrandra / wallichii and HC do with less Nitrate and softer water