I'm starting to see a little bit of GDA in this tank. Never used LED's before and I'm concerned that I'm overlighting this considering the plant load and more low tech approach. The tank had been running for 4 weeks. That piece of wood with the nice moss growth was from another nature tank.
Heres the details.
Tank 370L its 30" deep (never again!)
Lighting - 1 x 12" 6500k Beamsworks LED, 1 x 18" 6500k Beams work LED. They are place over the planted area. I believe the lights are 1400 lumens. These are on for 9 hours a day.
I'm using Macro's/Micros's with the standard mix from Plantfood UK, but I'm only doing 10ml a day, alternate macro/micro, which is around 10% of the recommended dose for a high tech tank. The tank also gets 7ml of Easy carbo a day.
Substrate is pool filter sand. There is a plastic ring under the large piece of wood that has 1cm of Tropica substrate in it. I thought it would help the swords and foreground plants.
Planting is mostly moss and narrow fern on wood. Some swords and tenellus in the foregound.
I'm changing 50% of the water a week with HMA. Water is around 12DH and 8Ph. I want to stick with this, as ultimately it will house some discus.
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Heres the details.
Tank 370L its 30" deep (never again!)
Lighting - 1 x 12" 6500k Beamsworks LED, 1 x 18" 6500k Beams work LED. They are place over the planted area. I believe the lights are 1400 lumens. These are on for 9 hours a day.
I'm using Macro's/Micros's with the standard mix from Plantfood UK, but I'm only doing 10ml a day, alternate macro/micro, which is around 10% of the recommended dose for a high tech tank. The tank also gets 7ml of Easy carbo a day.
Substrate is pool filter sand. There is a plastic ring under the large piece of wood that has 1cm of Tropica substrate in it. I thought it would help the swords and foreground plants.
Planting is mostly moss and narrow fern on wood. Some swords and tenellus in the foregound.
I'm changing 50% of the water a week with HMA. Water is around 12DH and 8Ph. I want to stick with this, as ultimately it will house some discus.
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