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My high energy tank with leftoversFilmed by hand with my samsung phone, sorry for the shaky result.This nano tank is almost 2 months old. Use aquasoil and high levels CO2.
Colors look fine, but there's gonna be more coloration due higher level of light over time.
I first recommend a major pruning, so that new leaves are adapted to the lean-dose aproach
Iron/ micro's are fine if you follow the recepy . Just don't overdose. Only dose potassium for a few weeks.
This seems like a Nutrient Lockdown to me.
as a result of Rich-dose fertilization in combination with a rich soil such as ADA.
Stop this fertilization routine and switch to a lean-dose regime
found a pic
I see in the list that the pH in the soil drops to pH 5.73. So I make a connection here with 'melting' of plants in the start-up phase.
The soil is simply too acidic, and the low pH makes it difficult to absorb nutrients. Thus over time the melting will decrease as the pH will...
Hi all,
two and a half question:
- what pH values do you get when using an aquasoil. Or asked differently: how far does the pH drop with the use of aquasoil
- and if you use CO2, will the pH drop even further?
cheers, Cor
Pruning is easy with curved scissors. And yes, remnants of pruning will grow everywhere in your tank. :lol:
I prune myself when it is 1cm thick, and I prune it to approximately 1mm inheight. and maybe prune it about once every 3 to 4 months.
Use no CO2 on the Fox.
Most agriculture nurseries have a collaboration with an general IV laboratory. And that lab grows IV for the entire horticultural sector.
These are actually flowers, houseplants, vegetable plants and the plants that we are using in our tanks. I know fore sure that Dennerle, aquaflora and...
I never have any failures in using InVitro plants. Never ever.
My way of working: I use aquasoil, a plantless cycle for 3 weeks and the failure rate is <5%.
Plants grow well, root quickly and are healthy. Maybe it has to do with your water parameters, soil or just bad InVitro quality?
I contacted the manufacturer. It tells me that it is 'Original Ecological fish tank landscaping'.
Great answer, but still don't know anything yet :wacky:
Cultivation manager/cultivation advisor at various plant companies. Trained at the HAS Green Academy for horticulture.
25 years of experience in tropical ferns, then as a consultant at various nurseries. About 5 years in the hobby. I'm more of a plant guy than a fish guy.
Have a passion for...
Not yet. But I expect it to be the same quality as the old white version.
I think its great: durable, solid and very quiet.
And you can lift the filter a little during the night for extra aeration:thumbup:
I have purchased a new LED (Week Aqua Z200 Pro) and I can control my settings by an app.
For example, I can choose betweeen Green, red, mixed, georgeous, colorful, but also N-Pharm.
Can anyone tell me what N-pharm means?
regards, Cor
In my experience, the recommended amount does not work. I know scapers who are up to 6x the recommended dose.
The NO3 and PO4 values if you have added nutrients. For a lean dose ADA approach, they recommend up to 2ppm NO3 and up to max. 0.5 ppm PO4
Okay, I retract my statement
But if you see the photo of TS his tank, you see a CO2 flow that flows directly to the surface. That's a huge waste of CO2.
:thumbup:
My summary:
your DC is too yellow
you have too much light
a HOB filter is not efficient for a high light tank
and judging by the color of your rotala you have too much NO3
dounle/ triplle the Tropica
Dosing EI in combination with soil will cause more problems, specially if the tankis is not...
I have a 500ml bottle with micro nutrients that I want to divide into 2 500ml bottles. That makes dosing easier for me.
Can I simply fill the bottles with RO water? Will this affect the efficiency of the nutrients, or get I sediment or so?
cheers, Cor :thumbup:
My daily target potassium gonna be aprox 3.3 ppm
I will not gonna use KNO3 because I will get too much NO3. And I will partly get nitrogen from urea and ammonium
I'm not going to use K2SO4 because I will get S in the water and I don't know what this does in my tank
I'm not going to use KCl...
My supply of K₂CO₃ has run out.
Could I also use the raising/leavening agent Potash, which you can buy at any bread shop, or is this a slightly different composition?
How long do dry salts last?
I have a bag of micros here and it's completely petrified 😯, maybe because of humidity
Can I still use it, or should I throw it away and buy a new one?
Cheers Cor
I have now gathered some further info.
it's actually not as difficult as I thought; simply add GH/KH+ after changing with RO water till a TDS of 120-150 has been achieved. That's all.:thumbup:
Thanks everyone for the information so far, but I still don't know which KH and GH targets I should maintain to remineralize my osmosis water using aquasoil 🤔
Isn't there a clear tutorial somewhere that I can use?
How do other people do this: the combination of RO water and aquasoil. I've...
Txs.
How much more MgSO4.7H2O would you recommend for a total of 6ppm? Or can I use the calculator at Rotalabutterfly?
I find it difficult to determine what to add when using RO water. There are so many DIY recipes in circulation such as at theplantedtank.co.uk.
But I don't know if this is...
I'm going to use RO water in my new tank. It will be a high light, CO2 and aquasoil. So I need to mineralize my water. But how do I do that?
I mean. I read so many different stories about different salts to use. All I want is a KH of 1 and a GH of 6
But if, for example, if I use CaCO3 to...
This is very different from what I make. Rolife are miniature houses, often complete with furniture. It's a construction kit .build up with plastic, cardboard, paper, wood, etc
My work consist 95% XPS insulation foam
I read a lot of time that plants are able to utilise the bound fertiliser/nutrients in aquasoil.
But wich nutrients are those?
I know that by CEC it will pull out of the water any cations like Mg++, Ca++, K+ and that it exchanges magnesium, calcium, etc for hydrogen ions, so the KH and pH will...
I would not recommend it.
You are now fertilizing according to EI, which means that extra nutrition comes into the water. The algae will take advantage of that.
I would go back to the lean-dose approach and dim your light for now
if I want to use KCl as a potassium source, is the Cl not harmful to the plants?
For example, I want 25 ppm potassium in my 100 l tank. To reach this target of 25ppm K I need to add 4.77 grams KCl to my 100L aquarium.
But there wil be also 22.67ppm of Cl in it... or is this form of Cl not...
I find it difficult to define certain problems with yellow plants like a Nesaea pedicellata Golden.
It has dark spots on the leaves, so my first thoughts are Mg but testresults confirm otherwise.
specs:
Tropica soil and Tropica nutri caps
1 point pH drop (good flow and water distribution)...
For smal delicate mosses like Fissidens or Riccardia I always use dry start. This I achieved with dry start/ yoghurt method
For moss species such as Taxiphyllum and Vesicularia it's imo better to use cotton/fishing line or glue based on cyanoacrylate.
(development in progress) My DIY DOOA project.
For me the original brand is way too expensive, so I've made my own.
Plants and moss are doing fine. Now takes some time to grow. It's about 2 months old now.
In time I 'll add some more plants and some hardscape
I have the same experience. Bought some old pieces of used wood. Full of algae. So I cleaned it and let it unused for nearly a month. Also kept it in a cool and dry environment.
When used it in een new set-up the algae popped-up very fast on the wood. Not anywhere in the tank itself, only on the...
for example: if you have algae overgrown piece of driftwood, and you let dry it out outside the tank, is it possible that algae be reactivated when placed back in the water?
(thinking of cryptobiosis)
TIA, Cor
...plantles cycle aka dark-start approach with soil like amazonia e.a.: no lights, no CO2, only filter running and a slightly higher temp.
Do this for 3 weeks and there's no ammonia leech
Not my invention do: here is were I get it from: No Water Changes in a new Aquascape! *Secret DARK START...
Poor condition so don't use them
I had the same situation
So I've used the green parts to grow them emersed and went very well. Now I use new self propagated plants in new set-ups :thumbup:
Imagine you have a tank with a gravel bottom.
If you measure the KH and pH, you could theoretically determine the ppm CO2. (the pH / KH Table)
For example: KH: 8.0 and pH 7.9. Then you would have 3ppm CO2 in the water, according to the pH / KH table.
If you have a tank with an aquasoil then you...
Can anyone explain the difference between Aquario Neo Diffuser and the new Twinstar CO2 diffuser?
Or are they the same products in different packaging?
As the pic also confirms: plants don't have all the same optimal pH value,but they do have a average.
You see that the 'best' nutrient availability and pH is in the range 6.5 in (potting) soil, and in Hydro at 5.8 But hydro is not the same as aquatic because with hydro the roots are in water and...
I often see images (charts) in which an ideal pH is shown that plant needs for optimum nutrient absorption.
But if I look further, they are almost always charts meant for soil (like gardenplants) Sometimes you see charts for hydroponics setups but never a chart for submersed plants.
But isn't...
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