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well the water in my area is very hard so it may have some influence on it. i've got a RO unit so may try to dilute the hard water down a little at the next change and see what happens.

thanks all. i was naively assuming that no pearling meant that i was missing something. the plants are doing ok, there is a bit of an algae problem but thats completely my fault and as soon as i can rehome some oversized fish i can concentrate on my maintenance regime (the bala shark tries to...

interesting. i was thinking that the lack of pearling was because there wasnt much photosynthesis going on but perhaps there is, its just that the fresh water has so much 'other' gas disolved in that the oxygen bubble from photosynthesis have no where to go. with older tank water there is spare...

I have a juwel rio180, fitted with 2*45w t5 lights and pressurised co2 injection. With a KH of 11 and pH when injecting co2 of 7.1 i'm sure the co2 level is ok, no3 level is high (too many fish), phosphorous level is about 2ppm, am dosing K to about 20-30ppm and am adding something for the trace...