Hi,
My tank has been set up for 8 days now. It is 400L (minus displacement) and I have planted 24 V. Nana, 15 E. Parvula and 35 pots of HC all from Tropica.
My lighting is approx 2 wpg, KH very low and GH medium. I have a bit of green water probably due to ammonia spike off the set up with ADA amazonian soil. Doing 50% water changes every three days now the ammonia is coming down. I am also running a UV to try and clear up the green water. It has been running for 4 days and has only made a very slight difference to the 'greeness'. Fert is TPN+ 20ml a day as seems to be the norm according to other threads on UKAPS.
I was instructed that I would need 40 bubbles per minute but to get the drop checker to go light green (trying to get it high to give the HC a good start) I am running my co2 at approx 6 bubbles per second!!!
My questions to you all are:
would you expect this bubble rate at this stage?
at its present rate how long is a 2kg cylinder going to last? !!!
Any advice would be much appreciated.
dave
My tank has been set up for 8 days now. It is 400L (minus displacement) and I have planted 24 V. Nana, 15 E. Parvula and 35 pots of HC all from Tropica.
My lighting is approx 2 wpg, KH very low and GH medium. I have a bit of green water probably due to ammonia spike off the set up with ADA amazonian soil. Doing 50% water changes every three days now the ammonia is coming down. I am also running a UV to try and clear up the green water. It has been running for 4 days and has only made a very slight difference to the 'greeness'. Fert is TPN+ 20ml a day as seems to be the norm according to other threads on UKAPS.
I was instructed that I would need 40 bubbles per minute but to get the drop checker to go light green (trying to get it high to give the HC a good start) I am running my co2 at approx 6 bubbles per second!!!
My questions to you all are:
would you expect this bubble rate at this stage?
at its present rate how long is a 2kg cylinder going to last? !!!
Any advice would be much appreciated.
dave