Re: Andyh's 190l Lounge tank. Day 33
Sorry Guys not been ignoring you, my pregnant wife went into labour last weekend and
i now have a daughter called
"Esme" and to be honest i haven't looked at my fishtanks or UKAPS since!
I suspect that she is going to keep me entertained for years to come! She is just amazing!
Anyway, back to the journal
LondonDragon said:
Looking great Andy, its been 33 days already?? time flies!! Lower light is not always a bad thing, I have reduce my tank from 6x24w to 2x24w and it still pearls
Cheers Paulo, I know lower light aint a bad thing but i cant wait for the arrival of my MH. Some of plants around the edge of the tank are suffering and aren't getting enough light.
Graeme Edwards said:
Filling out nicely bro. That H.pinnatifidia is in need of some real light. Whens your solar I due? That will get it creeping in no time. It can look like that even under strong light at first, then with a little time, it will branch out. Its a hard plant in some ways, as it like very strong like, but its growth is slow.
I think you need more plants in the middle back of the tank. Is that Pogostemon Erectus? Its uber slow, so you will be waiting some time to get that filled in. Perhaps mix it with a myriophyllum sp. ?
Cheers big ears.
Graeme.
Alright Big nose!
Tell me about it! the H,pinnatifidia desp needs light so does the Echinodorus 'Vesuvius, hopefully the new light should cure that one. The Pogostemom Erectus is actually filling out nicely at lower level and shortly should look a lot better, i have been thinking of adding another stem to compliment it, i will have a look at what you suggested.
B7fec said:
Hi Andy,
Looking good mate, and as Graeme says above it's filling out nicely, I have H.pinnatifidia in my scape and it is creeping awesomely,mine has attached it's self to some dragon stone which has created a great look creeping up the face of the stone! Look out once that light arrives....... the trimming scissors will be out all the time!
Cheers Dude, i have pruned to HP this evening and that should help, it has done some creeping at low level but not enough, as suggested by others the light intensity needs to be increased to stop it reaching for the sky.
JamesM said:
Hey Andy, that's looking great mate! Starting to fill in very nice indeed
Cheers James!
So i have dosed EI for one week now and so far so good, Seems simple enough. No real obvious results yet but the plants all look healthy.
Here is my EI equipment i have purchased: (found the dosing spoons in the back of the kitchen draw, they have now been stolen for fish related things, just don't tell the wife!
)
The dosing bottle really make it so easy and as you can see i have written on the bottles what i am dosing etc.
I will keep you updated with my progress on this
thanks for looking
Andyh