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Update-
So things have been moving slowly and not particularly well (shocker). I've now taken out the glasswear and put in 16/22mm eheim intake and spray bar. The spray bar runs the length of the aquarium (more or less) and the two powerheads are mounted below. I've noticed that the flow from the spraybar is pretty poor and certainly not as vigorous as the previous 12/66mm one.
The in-line diffuser is now placed on the intake to the filter and cleaned regularly (I clean my filter at least every 2 weeks and the pipework when it starts to get visible dirty).
Doing a pH profile is difficult but I'm hoping to do one tomorrow when im finally at home during the photo-period stage.
I've also decided to completely remove the right hand side section of wood. The plant im having the most issues with is still the stauro, it generally lives for a couple of weeks but never roots and eventually the leaves drop off. Hopefully removing this piece of wood will increase flow to that area. The Stauro in the dead center of the aquarium does slightly better than the plants on the right which is guess is due to there being no obstructions.
I think my main issue with this tank is that i still struggle with 'easy' plants. I was hoping that even without CO2 plants such as hygrophilia would do well but their growth isnt exactly impressive. The Hydrocotyle tripartita is doing ok and showing some signs of improvement.
I also increased the lights slightly, when i originally set up this tank i had good growth with the stauro and the intensity then was 27 percent so ive gone back to this in an attempt to replicate conditions. My feeling is that the flow is still too low, when I have the funds I'd like to upgrade to an Eheim 600T.
Just as a re-cap here are the current parameters, cheers for reading!
CO2 on between 14:00-23:00
Lights on between 17:00-00:00
Light Intensity @ 27%
Dosing EI
So things have been moving slowly and not particularly well (shocker). I've now taken out the glasswear and put in 16/22mm eheim intake and spray bar. The spray bar runs the length of the aquarium (more or less) and the two powerheads are mounted below. I've noticed that the flow from the spraybar is pretty poor and certainly not as vigorous as the previous 12/66mm one.
The in-line diffuser is now placed on the intake to the filter and cleaned regularly (I clean my filter at least every 2 weeks and the pipework when it starts to get visible dirty).
Doing a pH profile is difficult but I'm hoping to do one tomorrow when im finally at home during the photo-period stage.
I've also decided to completely remove the right hand side section of wood. The plant im having the most issues with is still the stauro, it generally lives for a couple of weeks but never roots and eventually the leaves drop off. Hopefully removing this piece of wood will increase flow to that area. The Stauro in the dead center of the aquarium does slightly better than the plants on the right which is guess is due to there being no obstructions.
I think my main issue with this tank is that i still struggle with 'easy' plants. I was hoping that even without CO2 plants such as hygrophilia would do well but their growth isnt exactly impressive. The Hydrocotyle tripartita is doing ok and showing some signs of improvement.
I also increased the lights slightly, when i originally set up this tank i had good growth with the stauro and the intensity then was 27 percent so ive gone back to this in an attempt to replicate conditions. My feeling is that the flow is still too low, when I have the funds I'd like to upgrade to an Eheim 600T.
Just as a re-cap here are the current parameters, cheers for reading!
CO2 on between 14:00-23:00
Lights on between 17:00-00:00
Light Intensity @ 27%
Dosing EI