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Puckhog429

Puckhog429

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So on my 29 gallon currently I have a 36 watt 2 bulb coralife aqualight fixture. I have been thinking about upgrading the lighting and making it a higher tech tank. Right now im dosing excel almost daily and api leaf zone. The lighting I have just isnt cutting it. its not powerful enough to reach the lower parts of my ludwigia. So for upgrading I was thinking about just getting another aqulight to double the power. But when I priced it out it was going to be only 30 bucks more to get a finnex or current usa led fixture. This is where im torn. I already have a finnex that I really like but I think the Satellite is just way cooler. What would you reccomend? I was thinking about possibly doing co2 in the future but I might not. The plants im growing in the 29 are low to medium light plants.
Thanks

-Puck
 
Check out the exotic e series, it's on sale on fosters, it's the sat + on a whole case of red bull.

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Thanks, Ill check it out. thats where I was gonna order from. I have a co2 question. and i think you just set co2 up right? If I were to go high tech how much would it cost to setup a co2 system? Also I want to start doing dry ferts but am clueless about that too. What are some options?
 
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Thanks, Ill check it out. thats where I was gonna order from. I have a co2 question. and i think you just set co2 up right? If I were to go high tech how much would it cost to setup a co2 system? Also I want to start doing dry ferts but am clueless about that too. What are some options?
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I just ordered it.. should be setting it up soon though, I've got about $175 into the while system, that's probably about as cheap as pressurized goes new. You could rig up a diy reactor. For dry ferts, get the pps pro starter pack from gla, it's cheap and easy, just read the directions twice haha

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I will look into that. I saw that ecoxotic light! Whyd you tell me about that. lol I want it but 180 bucks is a lot. So I guess im back down to sat+ or finnex. Which one?

-puck
 
That's the one! You'll need to run 2 of the others to get to high light, it's a tall tank, you need par power man!

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I was going to say that to actually, you could get a finnex planted plus and then double down when you're ready to go high tech.. do you dose glut? Metricide? ?
Edit, sorry, excel.. you may want to consider making the switch, big dollar difference there
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So add the planted plus to the t5. And get the pps pro starter pack. Due to the price i dont think I will ever get co2. What is glut and metricide? Are they an alternative to excel? Should they be used along with the pps?
Thanks
-puck


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Puckhog429 said:
So add the planted plus to the t5. And get the pps pro starter pack. Due to the price i dont think I will ever get co2. What is glut and metricide? Are they an alternative to excel? Should they be used along with the pps?
Thanks
-puck


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If you run the 2 together you'll be up there on lighting so you'll need to dose a lot of excel, glut or metricide is basically the same thing as excel except it's twice as strong, a gallon is $30 on amazon, i use it a plug with many other members on here. It should be used with the ferts yes. It is a liquid carbon for the plants to use, it also acts as a mild algaecide.

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Ok so is metricide for aquariums. Like does it have dosing instructions on it? Also how often do you dose it? So if i get the planted plus I will have high light and may have algae problems if I dont does excel or metricide regularly? When I go on vacations and stuff is it ok to stop dosing the pps and or metricide?
Thanks
Puck


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Puckhog429 said:
Ok so is metricide for aquariums. Like does it have dosing instructions on it? Also how often do you dose it? So if i get the planted plus I will have high light and may have algae problems if I dont does excel or metricide regularly? When I go on vacations and stuff is it ok to stop dosing the pps and or metricide?
Thanks
Puck


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It's for anything but aquariums but it works.. you dose it half strength of excel doses, i dose alot, like almost 1ml/gal.. dose it daily, if you run both lights you'll definitely need ferts and glut, it will take some fine tuning to strike a balance. you'll need timers and tweaking lighting, it's alot more work than just turning on the lights and feeding the fish;)

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Theres a 30 in ray 2 on craigslist gor 50 bucks close to me. Would this be too much light when used with my t5? Could i run just this?


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Just run the ray 2, see how old it is first.. does it have the moonlight feature?? May be the old fugeray

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I didn't think the ray 2 had moonlight features?


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Ok, ya it will be pretty strong its own

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