saintly said:looks really nice viktor.
I see you've still got liliaeopsis leaves still in tact, and some wilting....cut these off now my friend.
The clear background is better! Have you tried placing a second light at the rear of the tank, shining upwards?
cheers Mark, sure will do with lilaeopsis, thanks for the tip
i like the clear one better too. that way the edges of the tank and the glass stuff really blend into the scape. with black one everything is so visible. not tried backlight on this tank yet, but will do as the bottom part looks dark now. what would you recommend to these type of lighting?
George Farmer said:The carbon will have turned from a chemical adsorbtion media into biological media. Beware that you may lose a lot of biological filtration capacity by replacing it with new carbon in the initial period.
Hi George, actually i am not sure what's going on with this media. i mean carbons even the ADA ones would be exchausted in 2-4 weeks. from that time as you said this tuns to a bio media. now i am using this for 4-5 months. and the media act as a carbon filtration still. clearing up the water quickly, reducing chlor etc. this is one of the reason why i do not have any algae (only lilaeopsis leaves has some because of the ECA dosage). with all those good things i keep my eye on the plants as if i see any defficiency problems there. probably all above is because i used the factory 750mg for this small tank which is a lot, and not exchausted fully yet, but i do not know.
sure will take care with the replacement. i am waiting a little to have a good bacterial activity in the soil as then it is easier to fully remove the media. i have powersand spec under the soil and i also dose green bacter weekly. this establish a good bacterial colony in the soil. so for me killing the colony is not an option bulletproof jacket
however i am hesitating a little which way to go. if i replace to a new carbon i do not need to worry about anything except plant defficiency. as this would not give chances to any algae from startup. but probably my plants would not grew as it should do with normal medium. with normal medium like substrat pro, matrix, bio filtration would be good, but would loose all advantages of the carbon control. having harder times with algae again and with my shrimps. of course there's sitll an option to mix it. using just a little carbon with mainly bio media. hmm too much option
thanks for the tip anyway.