aaronjeffels
Seedling
- Joined
- 22 Feb 2014
- Messages
- 11
Hi every one
After getting a little bored of my old tank set up I decided to start over. Watched loads of YouTube videos, trawled through the forums and instead of jumping straight in like I am sure most people do i took it slow and sourced the right materials etc. 4/5 weeks later I could just do with a little advise on what im not doing right or what else I should be doing. About the tank
its a all pond solutions 300l tank
its 100cm long, 50cm deep and 65cm high (to the lights)
I have 5 x 39w t5s that run from 7-9 in the morning and from 5-10 at night. i was running the morning session longer but have decreased it in the last week.
the substrate compromises of dirt with a medium gravel and then a fine gravel to cap the whole thing off.
Because the tank is pretty deep i decided to slope the tank quite high and steep to get the plants that little closer.
I am running co2 into the tank through the diy fire extinguisher method. My diffuser is placed underneath my filter intake so it passes through my external filter (all pond solutions 2000 ef canister) then out of the spray bar. I also have a a wave maker placed in the corner to increase flow. I have two heaters in the tank (im going external after xmas).
I am fertilising daily using this calculator http://blog.fluidsensoronline.com/calculators/estimative-index/
its 150ml a day for micro and macro 5 x a week from a 500ml container.
I change 1/3 of the water once a week.
I carried out a water test 2 weeks ago and every thing was almost 0.
My main questions are some of the plants arnt doing great (i know its early and some will die etc) but from what I am doing is this right/wrong, what could/should I be doing differently.
Also im starting to get some algae, brown algae on the glass and some thing on the rocks wood and on the stargrass (that's what i think its called)
any help would be great and if you have any opinions on the tank please comment.
aaron
After getting a little bored of my old tank set up I decided to start over. Watched loads of YouTube videos, trawled through the forums and instead of jumping straight in like I am sure most people do i took it slow and sourced the right materials etc. 4/5 weeks later I could just do with a little advise on what im not doing right or what else I should be doing. About the tank
its a all pond solutions 300l tank
its 100cm long, 50cm deep and 65cm high (to the lights)
I have 5 x 39w t5s that run from 7-9 in the morning and from 5-10 at night. i was running the morning session longer but have decreased it in the last week.
the substrate compromises of dirt with a medium gravel and then a fine gravel to cap the whole thing off.
Because the tank is pretty deep i decided to slope the tank quite high and steep to get the plants that little closer.
I am running co2 into the tank through the diy fire extinguisher method. My diffuser is placed underneath my filter intake so it passes through my external filter (all pond solutions 2000 ef canister) then out of the spray bar. I also have a a wave maker placed in the corner to increase flow. I have two heaters in the tank (im going external after xmas).
I am fertilising daily using this calculator http://blog.fluidsensoronline.com/calculators/estimative-index/
its 150ml a day for micro and macro 5 x a week from a 500ml container.
I change 1/3 of the water once a week.
I carried out a water test 2 weeks ago and every thing was almost 0.
My main questions are some of the plants arnt doing great (i know its early and some will die etc) but from what I am doing is this right/wrong, what could/should I be doing differently.
Also im starting to get some algae, brown algae on the glass and some thing on the rocks wood and on the stargrass (that's what i think its called)
any help would be great and if you have any opinions on the tank please comment.
aaron
