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its hard to see the leafs on yours, but monte carlo is very round. I think yours is something else. Someone else prolly knows!

oh, sorry... that one said on the post. it's monte carlo. its floating in the tank before i cut it up and planted it.

I think its rotala rotundifolia. it goes red at the top under high light. from dec:

how bad is it? what Mebbid said sounds good, but if its REAL BAD... I got hurt and was unable to deal w my tank last year, so algae took over the whole thing. I ended up pulling my betta out and doing this treatment: The "One-Two Punch" Whole Tank Algae Treatment - The Planted Tank Forum...

agree w above. also pretty lil guy. :D

I got the monte carlo in the OP and it was beauts. took up almost my whole tank. someone should grab the rest of this up for sure.

I was going to say, the picture is small, so it's hard to tell... But he looks kind of old to me. For bettas, warm clean water is usually the biggest factor in keeping them healthy, but looks like youve got that under control, so that could just be it.

right? I want gold tetras, something else, and some little otto cats/shrimp. we're renting right now, but if we ever settle down somewhere and get our own place, that's what I want to get. tiny fish big tank.

oh, but! if I get another tank for the other light, then I have to get rocks and dirt and fish, and what not.... And technically if I do get another tank, what I really want is a 30 gallon long with a giant school of micro fish, so I would even have to get another light for that....! :whistle...

haha.... I showed my husband your post, and he just shook his head sadly. <3

I have the older spec V unfortunately. It's already got a couple burned out LEDs on it. I could still try it I guess though. can I just... add more potassium to my mix? or should I make a seperate one with just K2SO4?

In an older thread we decided that my par was crazy high for such a small tank, so thats what I ended up doing.

bonus: -beautiful monte carlo from user salman before I had to tear it up and plant it. <3 ; ; -betta fish hates nerites now.

Fluval Spec V 5 gallon Light- 16" Finnex FugeRay Planted+ SO BRIGHT Substrate- UP AQUA Sand for Aquatic Plants DIY CO2 Ferts- PPS Pro macro/micro, root tabs Stock- 1 betta, 4 amano shrimp (probably), 2 nerites Soooo I finally switched to PPS Pro about 2 months ago. I've been trying...

Continued from this thread, which is now too old for replies! Fluval Spec V 5 gallon Light- 16" Finnex FugeRay Planted+ SO BRIGHT Substrate- UP AQUA Sand for Aquatic Plants DIY CO2 Ferts- Flourish Potassium/Nitrogren/Phosperous, Trace, root tabs Stock- 1 betta, 4 amano shrimp, 2 nerites co2...

I'm going to probably pick up a test kit on the next paycheck. I do think from watching it, that it's probably okay to dose 2x a week, so that's what I'm going to do for now (for macro/micro liquid ferts). Excel I started off dosing once a day, but I've really fallen behind. with regard to...

in some ways, yes....! The stem plants in the back right are growing really well! They are starting to branch out and grow across the top. however, you can see a smaller version of what I had assumed was the same type of plant, and it hasn't grown much at all: this little plant grew...

cool. can do! ty :D

yesterday and the day before I was trying to use the glass diffuser... this morning I swapped it out for my other air stone. so today's also the first day that CO2 has been successfully coming out. I turn the air stone off when I get up, and the lights come on a bit later so the current plan...

it is, but i have an airstone running overnight. today's the first time ive seen any change in the drop checker, though.

The kit is a basically a slightly nicer version of a diy bottle set up, so I don't know. :/ I dont have a regulator for it. The diffuser I bought is this one. edit: five hours after switching to the air stone, it looks like I've gone to blue-green.

so, the glass diffuser wasn't working, and actually it looks like the bubble ladder is just too big to fit in the tank, so I hooked up an air stone (because I read that some other people did that and it worked okay). it's putting out a bloop of bubbles every five seconds or so, but it's been a...

more info! Thanks! I got my CO2 set up yesterday, but I don't think it's quite working yet. I can see a bubble slowly building up / getting bigger where the tube meets the diffuser, so I'm going to give it a little more time to see if it just needs to work up to it, and if it looks like it's...

My CO2 kit came today! it also came with a little bottle of nutrafin plant gro which says "iron enriched" on it. There isn't much information on its packaging, but Amazon says that it is: "enriched with a potent blend of b vitamins and biotin, it ensures efficient plant metabolism and...

the dosing instructions on the bottle are for much larger tank sizes, so maybe I screwed up the math. nitrogen 1/2 cap per 40 gallons phosphate 1/2 cap per 20 gallons potassium 1 cap per 30 gallons (tank is 5 gallons) For iron I have three root tabs in the substrate, spaced out (guaranteed...