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    Questions on Dosing and Nitrate Uptake by the plants

    I've recently (last week) started dosing ferts and specifically KNO3. I am quite certain I was nitrate limited prior to beginning to dose nitrates. The local water has 0.5pmm phosphate so algae has been a large problem. The problem I am seeing it that the nitrates are being consumed very...
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    Water Parameters,Algae, and CO2 (Long)

    Hello I'm looking for some comments/suggestions on my tank. I am in the process of converting a 150 gallon tank to a planted tank and not suprisingly I'm having a little trouble with algae. I've been keeping fish for almost 20 years and my fish tend to die of old age rather H2OQ issues. This is...
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    Follow-Up on Swapping Substrate and Removing UGF

    I can't say swapping out the substrate wasn't without some pain but I'm glad that I did it. If I were to do it over I would have setup a spare 20 gallon and moved the fish over there while I was upsetting the tank but other than that I would probably do it the same. What I did. 1. Vacuum -...
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    Removing UGF and replacing substrate in an existing aquarium

    I'm converting my 150 gallon tank over to a planted tank. As part of the change over I am going to 100% flourite. Currently I have large gravel and UGF filter plates. Since the gravel is so large and I have a lot of it (3-4 inches) , I really need to replace it rather than add to it. To keep...
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    Ocean Clear Filters

    I'm converting my 150 gallon tank to a planted tank and I want to do some other updates at the same time. Right now I have two aquaclear HOB filters that are doing an ok job with the tank but I want to switch back to a canister filter since I am not going to need biological filtration. I've used...
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