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That's exactly what I had been thinking. I had, while the tank first got established planted heavily and ran a photo period of 3. 5 hours on 4 off then a further 3.5 hours. I was managing to avoid any concerning algae but u think perhaps this photo period doesn't suit this plant so I changed it...

Hi guys, I've grown a lot of carpetting plants in the past but for some reason the interwebs won't answer my question should trim Brazilian Micro Sword? Just to add, I've not trimmed it yet and my main motivation to do so is that newer leaves are coming in shorter than the older ones, plus I'm...

Hi guys, I recently bought a second hand Rio 180 that had been sitting in a garage for a couple of years. Got it all nicely cleaned, scaped and filled. However I then realised that there is limescale all over the glass giving a cloudy look to the tank. I've attacked it with scrubbers and razor...

Got my marker on now Andrew, no need to feel lonely anymore :D

I've done this and had no issues.

Show off! :P Impressive HC carpet!

I buy it off ebay, best to buy the 35% concentration, and dilute it down with water. Try to aim for 5% solution for dealing with algae. I use it just before a water change so there isn't too much of it in the water column. eg: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Food-Grade-Hy ... 2ebb4df69c Though, I...

Scrubbed it with a pipe brush, then left it overnight in about a 7% solution of H2O2, rinsed and used the pipe crush again. There was some amount of crud out of it! I believe others use a bleach solution. I just used H2O2 as I had some that I use to spot treat algae. I did this yesterday, and...

Finally figured out my issue I think. The damned UP atomizer I was using wasn't funtioning correctly, and was spitting out huge bubbles, as it needed cleaning. I didn't realise this until I took a chance and replaced it with a spare I have. Now I have a nice mist again as opposed to something...

Certain areas of my HC continually end up on the surface of the tank, will the roots attach themselves to the substrate like many other plants? Also is it an idea to plant the HC 5-10mm below the substrate? When I planted, I left all leaves exposed, and put a few grains of substrate over to try...

The algae I believe was due to the last FE near running out. And caused by the fluctuation over a couple of days period. So you reckon reduce the lighting intensity, rather than perhaps turning the c02 on 2hrs before lights on? If the consensus is to reduce lighting, I can perhaps reduce it to...

Wow, great to see such a response! Sorry I haven't been on earlier, I work in IT, and am on night shift all week... Just to clarify for everyone, I rescaped and put the new light on about 6 weeks ago. My lighting scheme has been: Weeks 1-2: 6.5hrs 2x24w with 2hr in the middle with 4x24w Weeks...

Oh, sorry, the light is on tank brackets, and does have a reflector, previously I had no issues growing hairgrass, P Stellata, or Limnophila Aromatica in the tank when I just had 2x24w, now with 4x24w I figured HC would be a doddle...

The akadama I have would be the larger sized, 3-5mm grains. A few weeks back I further tweaked my scape, and thinking the grain size was an issue, I put a layer of tesco cat litter on which is a much smaller grain size. It is odd, I thought with lots of light, c02 and ferts it would take off...

Did a bit of a rescape about 6 weeks ago, and added 6 pots of HC. Some of the pots were melting, but soon bounced back and put out nice compact leaves. However to my eye, in the 6 weeks up to now there does not appear to be any amount of growth, perhaps a very small amount. I was hoping t have...