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The last rapport i got was from 2019 and it listed 9,3mg/l Na. i dont know if this is hi or low in a planted aquarium context. 100l of RO water a week? hmmm i am already too far down this rabbithole. I dont really fell like spending that much on a RO setup. I can try rainwater in summertime...

after the first regular start up issues the diatomes never went away. I have had 3 years of persistent diatome growth. Not overwhelming but annoying. All the other issues have come and gone or been resolved and returned but brown algea has proved to be stubborn.

From wikipedia: Water treatment[edit] Sodium silicate is used as an alum coagulant and an iron flocculant in wastewater treatment plants. Sodium silicate binds to colloidal molecules, creating larger aggregates that sink to the bottom of the water column. The microscopic negatively charged...

I just found out my watercompany adds sodium silicates (Na2O*nSiO2) or equivalent to our tapwater to prevent corrosion. And when I read about this process I found out it the silicates also binds with Fe, Mn and other elements. So I wonder what implications this might have for my aquarium? I...

This is not a closed system. My "friend" does aprox. 70% waterchanges weekly. And the only inhabitants are a mix of different colour neocaridinas, trumpet snails and small ramshorn snails witch came with plants. The shrimps have thrived for over a year without feeding, and spawn regularly in...

Is it ok to keep a shrimp tank self regulating? Or would that be borderline animal cruelty? I mean, to not feed them any food. And just let the tank provide plant mater, alge, bacteria and other microorganisms for them so that the population self-regulates. Asking for a friend……

For anyone who want to learn more about fish I highly recommend reading: Fishes an introduction to ichthyology. By Peter B. Moyle and Joseph J. Czech, jr. Books on ichthyology can by very heavy reading for a layman (like myself), but this book is toned down a bit when it comes to the technical...

The "foundation" of my aquarium literature is: "aquarium atlas" by Hans A. Baensch and Dr Rüdiger Riel. Vol 1 is in Swedish, has a section on chemistry, equipment and plants. Vol 2 is only available in German (I think). Vol 3 and 4 is in English. Not really in depth presentation of species but...

I have one of these. It Work good enough, but watch out for e.o.t.d. My bubble rate increased as the bottle pressure dropped, so now it lays in a drawer as backup in case my other reg. Acts up.

This is from Wikipedia : In aqueous solution at neutral pH, gluconic acid forms the gluconate ion. The salts of gluconic acid are known as "gluconates". Gluconic acid, gluconate salts, and gluconate esters occur widely in nature because such species arise from the oxidation of glucose Glucose...

It was supposedly 100% pure but I bought it from a seller who also sells a lot of nutritional supplements so who knows. I don't know who the perp is, but I have a few "suspects". I add 1 gram of k2co3 to the 100l of new water. This might have caused some wild pH swing or depleted the oxygen...

@dw1305 Is magnesium gluconate possibly harmful in Any way? By itself or combined with other chemicals we use in our tanks? I just wiped out my livestock one week after switching to magnesium gluconate and wonder if it was this switch is to blame....

I am also interested in this topic. It seems like I need to add intolerable amounts of Mgso4 to my tank. Or else some plants will suffer and this might be the reason some other plants are stunted. Not 100% sure about this yet, but trying out different solutions for this. There are other...

WRONG I still don't know what causes this. Might be calcium, might not. I add more than enough Mg and potassium. In fact I Dosed so much potassium last week that I think it might be interfering with Mg availability. But I just do not know if Ca is inhibiting Mg. Or Mg is blocking out potassium...

My co2 system is finally complete and running without any leaks. It took a whole lot of time, parts and headscratching to get everything to fit together properly I started out with my old aqua medic regulator and a atomizer in the tank. Since this reg has a fixed output pressure, I had a...

I think you misunderstood what I was trying so say. What I meant was: you can dose macro once a week, because your plants will not consume ferts very fast. Keep the total macro amount the same or even higher.

A nice planted tank with no co2 is possible. It's just a bit harder. This is just my personal opinion. I may be wrong. With co2 plants grow faster and can better compete out algea. I think your plants look good. I have the same salvinia floating plants and my always seem to show a deficiency...

Hi, Hufsa. I don't think you should freak out with the tsd numbers you are seeing. A big water change without the usual gh Booster will cause a bigger tsd shock to your tank and might cause more Trubble. Your tap gh level is so low that the tank probably benefits from a little extra. Do you...

I read this highly interesting topic and have one question: If iron is bound to a chelate and this chelate is broken down by light and in our tanks. is it available to plants only before or after the chelate is affected by lights? Would it be beneficial to add the chelated iron/trace mix at the...

I finally got these black spots figured out. It turned out to be linked to my soft tap water. It went away once I upped the amount of gh Booster. I re-arranged some in the tank. N. Hydrophylla Taiwan is moved to the rear, a.r pink is moved to the far left (trimmed way down for the moment)...

Good call on the iron. Since the last post I have I bought 8% dtpa-fe. And for the last two weeks I have been dosing small doses of iron or trace mix containing iron every day. This has clearly had a positive effect. I can see both growth-rate and plant health have improved. So it's clear to...

Yes and no. csm+b has been the only iron source resently. I have one other iron source I can add. When I first got into ppmd ten years ago I bought some liquid Fe and liquid trace mix. My notes from that time is gone, so I have no idea what the ingredients are or how to dose them. I remember...

You are right for thinking my Po dose is low compaired to the other macros. I don't know how much of it my fish load is adding, so I'm am currently trying a lower dose. I can not say that it has had any negative effects on plants or positive affect on algea so..... Time will tell. And since I...

I have not done a pH profile, but I have a pH drop of more than 1 before lights on. I have not bothered testing pH in ages. I do not have a drop checker either. But I have a flow meter on my co2 and it is dialed in to the point where I am certain that the co2 level in the tank water is...

I have been trying E.I dosing my hightec tank for about 6 months, but the plants have not responded like I hoped. Something was still not right. And dosing more and more ferts did not solve my issues. I have probably over fertilized and despite sometimes doing more than one 50%wc a week I have...

I am still here. Not updated lately becouse I have been busy with my other money pit project. This is 27. April  This pic is from 12.may Vallisneria on the right have filled in nicely. I increased potassium and the plants went from pale green to a deeper green. Staurogyne repens got...

Is this possibly micro related? I did try out a new mix when this happened again. I also got some mean voracious man eating SAE attacking my hands every time I reach into the water. Wood covered in moss, infested with H.tripartita during water change.

Everything is not dialed in yet. Bba Green dot and dust alge Smal critters in the substrate (probably harmless) And the a.r.pink did this again. Twisted distorted growth tip This is the latest fts. The ceratopteris on the left switched places with the vallisneria on the far right. I don't want...

This is my water change setup. On the opposite side of the room I have a drain in the floor, an old kitchen sink, a shower mixer and a 3 meter flexible hose with a spray gun handle. I can change 50% of the water in 30 min or less without hauling buckets of water. The only downside is that...

Time for a update... The next upgrade is on the way and include some big names. Swagelok, Cole parmer and clippard. I got tired of guessing what the co2 was doing, since I had no bubble counter. And I almost gassed the fish when fiddling with it. The solution seemed easy enough. I found all the...

I guess It's a small interwebb, at least the planted corner of it. How did that vortex work out for ya...

I built my cerges for about 50 £ using a 10" housing. My tank is 200l and the reactor works just fine without any foam to stop bubbles. Add this and it could probably handle a 350-400l tank. The hardest part was finding a riser tube that had the right diameter. Try to find parts that don't...

Great. Looks like I can pretty much adopt apfuk's recipe for this. Biggest difference is Mo which is 1.6 times the amount in the one linked to above. To be on the safe side I can reduce it some. Maybe 30% and see how it works out. I am currently using csm+b and it is working out great so far...

Using the rotala calculator and comparing ratios in the results, I have found four trace sources that have similar composition (if one can assume the weight % matches the gain in ppm in the calculations) I wonder if I can use any of these for basis when gauging how much of this micromix I am...

This is probably a product they buy big quantities of, repack and sell as just "micromix" The recommended dose on the site is as follows: 7gr micromix in 500ml of water. Dose 10ml of this for every 100 liter of aquarium water once a week. I will have a look at what the rotala calculator says...

I could use some help to figure out how much to dose of this micromix. I bought it from a site that sells diy aquarium ferts, and they list the ingredients, their % and a recommendation for dosing. But since the levels they recommend for other nutrients are not anywhere near what I dose...

Since I last posted I have tried tweaking this and that. I held back on phosphate to see if it would help things green up. It didn't. 1.3ppm (ish) weekly and the floaters started getting purple patches and holes. Under decent lights, good co2 and medium plant mass of mostly fast growing plants...

I had a similar experience when setting up mine. Diatoms and bga then thread/fuzzy algea. It seems my tank was not fully cycled yet and not ready for the bio load I had. I beat it with reducing lights, increasing ferts, increased co2, manually removing algea and waterchange every day for a week...

You don't pour an alcoholic a drink, and you don't ask someone with mts if they would like a free tank. Just before Christmas I a friend approached me and asked if I wanted a tank, for free. A retirement home near by wanted to get rid of a tank since no one took care of it and it was kind of a...

Thanks for that link. I also thougt it might be low N because of the light green colour and started upping the dose and doubting my fertz: is my Kno3 actually potassium nitrate? So I dosed much more fore a while and saw no improvement . And my no3 test indicated good levels ( I know not to...

I could try to reduce it. Maybe half. I liked the idea of keeping that parameter stable. After a bunch of extra wc and half dose csm+b for over a week I am now trying out full dose csm+b. What I mean by full dose is the amount the rotala calculator says it takes to add 0.2ppm Fe. I am going to...

Flow is not a problem.The Only calm area is up on the shelf to the right, but once the new spraybar gets here I am going to move them to reverse the flow, open the valve on the 4+ completely (I have it choked a bit now) and remove the old filter. Maybe some corser sponge for the prefilter and...

Both my micro mix and the liquid Fe has been stored dark. They show no noticeable sludge at the bottom. Micro is dark orange, Fe is dark red. My tap is very soft. Almost RO water. So i add a Gh booster that says 80% Calsium and 20%mg so that my water holds ~6*Gh I also add k2co3 to reach ~2*kh...

I initially suspected mg or Fe and chased them both up and down through the ranges to the extreme. Some elements may inhibit Fe if excessive, right? If it was Mn then csm+b should help. My liquid micro mix is 10+ years old. Do you think it matters?

Love the magnifying glass. Oto's look great up close. Amanos even better.

When I started this tank it went realy well for a while and then I got just about every problem you can think of. Diatoms, bga, amonia spike, fuzzy thread alge and fish loss. But with some elbow grease and a new clean up crew I finally got the upper hand. It seems the few guppys I had as a...

Well I guess I should write something about my tank, so here it goes. About ten years ago I had a bad case of multiple tank syndrome. I did a lot of different things and had at one time 5 tanks in my living room. I had a big tank of African predators, breeding guppys ,Apistos, an artemia...

Still feels like the hardscape is only Halfway there.

Just registered, but been reading here for a few months. I am from Norway and just got back into the hobby after a few years absense. My Android is fighting me pretty hard for control over the auto spelling, so im having a hard time writing . I will try to post something from my tank some Day now.