tgc
Member
Hi there.
I've been away from planted tanks for a good few years and I'm looking forward to see how things have progressed in the industry.
While I've been away I've been heavily involved in the Reef Keeping industry and I also run at home a high tech SPS reef. This reef is run on a method called the Triton method which is based around dosing balanced solutions to keep the water at a very stable set of parameters, which are confirmed by sending water samples to a lab in Germany to be put through an ICP-OES machine. This basically breaks the water sample down into it's elemental components which you can then in turn adjust individually.
I now have the opportunity to convert one of my tanks to a high tech planted fresh water.
So, my question.
What are the agreed "Perfect" parameters for a planted tank?
If you could build your perfect water what would it be? If you started with RO/DI and effectively empty water what would you add to it and more important what wouldn't you want in it?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Cheers Tim
I've been away from planted tanks for a good few years and I'm looking forward to see how things have progressed in the industry.
While I've been away I've been heavily involved in the Reef Keeping industry and I also run at home a high tech SPS reef. This reef is run on a method called the Triton method which is based around dosing balanced solutions to keep the water at a very stable set of parameters, which are confirmed by sending water samples to a lab in Germany to be put through an ICP-OES machine. This basically breaks the water sample down into it's elemental components which you can then in turn adjust individually.
I now have the opportunity to convert one of my tanks to a high tech planted fresh water.
So, my question.
What are the agreed "Perfect" parameters for a planted tank?
If you could build your perfect water what would it be? If you started with RO/DI and effectively empty water what would you add to it and more important what wouldn't you want in it?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Cheers Tim