Hey, first "proper" post so this is my go easy plea
I have a 60l (there about), its lit by 2x24w T5HO bulbs, in one of the hagen glo light units.
Filters a eheim ecco pro 200. So it wacks it out 10x an hour near enough.
I have eco-complete substrate.
CO2 via a Aquagro CO2... Couldn't afford a proper pressurised CO2.
My regime is the following -
Friday - 50% water change, testing nitrate and phosphate. Deterime the week regime by that, but its pretty uniform and stays at this type of routine.
Adding 0.4g Potash, and Mediclay for the shrimps. 1pipette of easy carbo.
Saturday - 0.3g Nitrate, 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Sunday - 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Monday - 0.3 Nitrate, 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Tuesday - 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito, 0.4g Potash, 5 pipette Fosfo.
Wednesday - 0.3g Nitrate, 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito
Thursday - 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Rinse, repeat.
I got a bout of staghorn, and its annoying me. I have to leave the tank to my mum while I go to uni (only till May to go now, so soon can take full control).
Its planted with vallis nana, blyax japonica, hygrophillia polysperma, some mexican oak leaf, creeping jenny, bits of tenellus, some random crypts and some other vallis type thing which I have no idea what it is. Ludwiga aracuta, some rotala roundfoila i think, some mosses and pelia. And some water lettuce.
For one, is there anything wrong with my regime? Its been ok untill now, and I come back for Christmas and my filter needed cleaning and my mum wont touch it, so its had bad flow for a while. Hence the staghorn I guess?
I am tempted to go to lowtech for one just to save hassles of dosing, and two to save the moaning at me
Think I have given pretty much everything thats needed.
Cheers, Damion.
(I forgot) Stocked with - Emperor Tetras, which are breeding madly and I have gone from 2:2 mf to 7 in a few months. 2 ottos which was 6, they found a way in to my old internal and 4 died :/ Tiger shrimp which are breeding nicely, and yellow neocaridinas hetrapods.
I have a 60l (there about), its lit by 2x24w T5HO bulbs, in one of the hagen glo light units.
Filters a eheim ecco pro 200. So it wacks it out 10x an hour near enough.
I have eco-complete substrate.
CO2 via a Aquagro CO2... Couldn't afford a proper pressurised CO2.
My regime is the following -
Friday - 50% water change, testing nitrate and phosphate. Deterime the week regime by that, but its pretty uniform and stays at this type of routine.
Adding 0.4g Potash, and Mediclay for the shrimps. 1pipette of easy carbo.
Saturday - 0.3g Nitrate, 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Sunday - 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Monday - 0.3 Nitrate, 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Tuesday - 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito, 0.4g Potash, 5 pipette Fosfo.
Wednesday - 0.3g Nitrate, 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito
Thursday - 1 pipette easy carbo, 2 Pipette profito.
Rinse, repeat.
I got a bout of staghorn, and its annoying me. I have to leave the tank to my mum while I go to uni (only till May to go now, so soon can take full control).
Its planted with vallis nana, blyax japonica, hygrophillia polysperma, some mexican oak leaf, creeping jenny, bits of tenellus, some random crypts and some other vallis type thing which I have no idea what it is. Ludwiga aracuta, some rotala roundfoila i think, some mosses and pelia. And some water lettuce.
For one, is there anything wrong with my regime? Its been ok untill now, and I come back for Christmas and my filter needed cleaning and my mum wont touch it, so its had bad flow for a while. Hence the staghorn I guess?
I am tempted to go to lowtech for one just to save hassles of dosing, and two to save the moaning at me
Think I have given pretty much everything thats needed.
Cheers, Damion.
(I forgot) Stocked with - Emperor Tetras, which are breeding madly and I have gone from 2:2 mf to 7 in a few months. 2 ottos which was 6, they found a way in to my old internal and 4 died :/ Tiger shrimp which are breeding nicely, and yellow neocaridinas hetrapods.