DanTheGuppyMan
Aquarium Advice Addict
Plants come yet?
Jealous of your plants! Looks great! What I did with my lava rocks is I picked up two and made a little arch, I'll post a pic tommorrow. It's coming along!
Yep plants got here around 4 my time. A few hours ealier than expected!
5 hours later, here are the results! Still not where I would want it to look like, but considering shipping in this weather, me messing with them, untangling them, planting them, re-planting them, and re-planting some of them again, I think in a couple weeks of not being touched, having ferts dosed, hight lights, and co2, they will look better. It will also look nice when they start filling in!
I really like this piece of DW I found
I also bought this piece of lava rock, because it looks really cool, but I can't figure out where I want it.... I am thinking I will wait a couple of weeks until the plants have recovered, and go from there. But I would love to hear your guys' input
I want to start the co2, but I need the 'recipe' for the co2. I am going to be running both 2 liter bottles at the same time.
So what do you guys think?
You may have a leak in the co2 system. You can mix a bit of dish liquid and water and put it on the bottle caps to cheek for leaks. It'll bubble if gas is escaping. I suspect that's the issue here.
Your levels are normal for a cycle. First ammonia builds and then bacteria convert it to nitrite and that lasts a while before it gets converted by different bacteria into nitrate. Plants then use the nitrate as a plant "food".