Hi again,
@ Speed Euphoria - The tiger lotus started off pretty small leaves but as i sorted my dosing out they just got bigger and bigger. The first set of photo's below show the tank just before i took them out.
I'm still running the 48w in 2 24w arcadia extra high output plant bulbs with special reflectors. If you do some funny math with the wpg rule it works out roughly 2 wpg. Again though it is funny math. The eco complete helps alot with growing stuff, and the CO2. I think i listed my dosing schedule elsewhere in this thread but it is pretty much a version of EI using 4 days of dosing in a week. So less but modified for the needs of the plants as i battled various algae over the last year and a half. Just now it is the best it has been. I've actually against all better judgement started to add a little phosphate on the second of the weeks macro days to counter green spot algae and it is working well.
I've also started to add easycarbo (european Excel rip off) just for kicks in addition to the pressurised, ph monitored CO2.
@ Newfound77951 - Tbh i'm getting very happy with the way this tank is going especially since ive only been going for a year and a bit. I'd say thou that the people here and the tanks in this forum have been so, so helpful in the time i've been here. Any credit would be to you guys before me.
So...
More spammy picture updates...
12th July 2008 - Front View
12th July 2008 - Top View
12th July 2008 - Looking from the right - Lotus out of control!!
And that was the end of the Red Tiger Lotus. Passed onto the LFS and a friend. I may get one back in the distant future but the options for scapes and growing plants were very limited with so much of it in the tank.
13th August 2008 - Front View
13th August 2008 - Top View
13th August 2008 - Left Side View
13th August 2008 - Close Up - Mr Blue Ram posing again.
13th August 2008 - Another closeup
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As you can see since the Red Tiger Lotus has gone things are growing alot better. I'm thinking of ways to make it all more striking, basically involving reducing the amount of different species of plants present. But i'm going to let this mature a bit more first.
Best Regards,
John