Advice please

[fish fodder]

Hi and happy thursday

I have had my 90 litre tank running for three weeks now, have been dosing easy carbo every day and profito every week, lighting is a tmc 1500 ND tile which is on 5 hours a day and only one plug at the moment until I get a controller. Plants are P. Erectus, S. Repens, Eleocharis "mini" and weeping moss and a couple of hydrocotyle sp. They are all doing well with new growth (if a little slow) with no algae at all....should I carry on as I am or should I go down the pressurised co2 route?

 

[stu_]

'If it's not broke, why fix it?'
I've had pretty good growth with L.Carbon & a decent all in one fert.
This plus lower light & no pressurised has given me more room to manoeuvre whilst learning to grow stuff.
Just an opinion.
On a side note, keep an eye out for possible deficiencies as Profito doesn't contain N & P.
What substrate are you using?

 

[fish fodder]

Nutrasoil topped with small grade gravel. I'm going to be using tropica's specialist fert when the profito runs out

 

[kirk]

I've been using pro fito until Wednesday. I've now changed to ei macro /micro as plants def had some deficiencies yellowing and the odd hole. also started off easy carb then changed to pressurised it made a huge difference to what I could keep growing that was dying before.

 

[sciencefiction]

'If it's not broke, why fix it?'

I agree with that.
Changing to pressurized is a choice and leads to a totally different schedule, including water changes and maintenance.
I run 3 tanks low tech and it can't be easier than that, no algae either so I wouldn't bother but if you want to experiment, just get another tank and set it up high tech

 

[fish fodder]

I'm in no rush so I think I'll stick to what I'm doing