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I get mine free from the air. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Back to low tech for you :p

So here is my tank immediately after planting, and then 8 months later. By that time it was totally overgrown and had been for quite some time. So reckon maybe 4-6 months for plants to really fill in. Obviously that'll depend a bit on what plants you have. Most of my favourite plants (ferns...

Or you could stop worrying about all those numbers by stopping liquid carbon dosing, stopping EI dosing and just dosing now and then when the plants tell you they need some (Darrel's 'Duckweed Index'). I have no agenda or particular reason to try and convert you to low tech, but going high tech...

The soil does contain fertilisers, but others have used fert-free brands of soil with good results also. But I add very little additional ferts - I bought 500ml of TNC Macro+micro fert mix about 4 years ago which has just run out this month. Eco complete should be fine. I just wanted to...

Well, I don't know about 'better' results, but certainly good results, and I meant with no carbon dosing at all - neither CO2 nor liquid carbon. But you can still grow plants - here's a couple of shots of my tank that has a pondsoil and sand substrate, no carbon addition of any sort and...

I'm pretty much of Darrel's philosophy too. If CO2 is stressing you out there's no reason you can't get excellent results without it. Less expense, less hassle, less risk to fish, far more leeway for making mistakes.

Did that over Christmas :p Luckily with a 3' deep tank only a small proportion of the water was jetting far enough to escape, but I still lost something like 40 litres. Really hope it mainly evaporated after exiting the tank and isn't all sitting on downstairs' ceiling :drowning:

None.

This method also works using a watch, that way you don't even need to buy an iphone.

Most mosses, hairgrass and vallis should all grow fine without CO2.

Tipple, yes. Nice tasting, no. :lol: