Hi Guys & Gals.
It's been a few weeks since I posted. Lots going on with work exams and decorating.
The scapes been planted for a couple of weeks. Mostly everything is going ok. I have a little hair algae on the Bolbitis which I'm tackling with small doses of excel. I had fun planting after plants I requested to be delivered Saturday, arrived Thursday, so spent a few hours late into the evening after getting a train to Manchester from London.
The cryptocoryne bottom right took a bit of a hammering when it was planted. I'm starting to see fresh growth so hopefully it will recover. I've heard they can be a bit of a pain.
Plant list is as follows
Hygrophila difformis
Hygrophila polysperma 'Rosanervig'
Hygrophila polysperma
Microsorum pteropus mini (yea, right)
Anubias petite
Bolbitis heudelotii
Lindernia rotundifolia
Cryptocoryne beckettii 'Petchii'
Penthorum sedoides
Hygrophila 'Siamensis'
The tank is being filtered by an Eheim 600T and Eheim 600 classic
Co2 is on the 600 Classic through an in line diffuser. Turns on 2 hours before the lights on and one hour before lights off.
Co2 is a 3.5 Kg bottle with an Aqua Medic valve
Lighting is provided by a pair of Kessil 160 Tuna Sun with controller. Lighting comes on at 10am and shuts off at 6. The controller ramps up the light to 50% for an hour with a 6 hour run before ramping back down.
I'm running a DICI skimmer to tackle any surface film.