Hi all!
This thread is in some sense a continuation of <this post>. I felt that it required its own thread though.
So, once I got the tank balanced and could see the end of the tunnel -- if I continued doing what I did, it would grow in and I could focus on gardening, I decided to do what any rational person would do ... break it.
So, with EI dosing and the magic at least 30 ppm of CO2, flow unchanged, I decided to tinker with the thing that I feared for so long - light.
Slight context, prior to this little experiment/overlapped (because I am not a "good" scientist heh), I stopped dosing excel entirely -- I know, I know all of this is a recipe for disaster!!!!
I will say that I induced a carbon deficiency in my rotala (nothing else ... unless it is coming ) -- it recovered though. Ironically, no algae on many of my "melted" leaves -- no idea why not.
Over the past week or two, I have probably doubled my light - not changing anything else.
Observations:
1) pearling is like I have never seen --- makes sense.
2) I did NOT clean the left bottom part of my glass, because I forgot (though I will claim it is on purpose to feel good about my experiment ) GSA on that part - and not noticeable unless your eyes are against the glass.
3) I have unhealthy Buce and healthy Buce in my tank - GSA on my unhealthy to begin with Buce -- I THINK (and please weigh in), the spores were already there ... I have simply sped up the process -- so in a month or two, I would see it form instead of 2 weeks. Interestingly, the healthy Buce have no algae - even with more light.
That's about it.
My question - am I just riding out a 2 week "glory" period where the tank hasn't adjusted and all of my plants are going to show deficiencies in about a week? I.e. I have drove the nutrient required by all plants so high and they are not ready for this yet (if this was the case, then I should have seen an algae bloom on my hardscape - no? Is the bloom the GSA?
I have a hunch that the RuBisCo in my plants will need to increase - but I am not sure.
Any insights?
At this current level of light, I will leave the tank for 2 weeks and just observe and then probably manipulate something else.
Josh
This thread is in some sense a continuation of <this post>. I felt that it required its own thread though.
So, once I got the tank balanced and could see the end of the tunnel -- if I continued doing what I did, it would grow in and I could focus on gardening, I decided to do what any rational person would do ... break it.
So, with EI dosing and the magic at least 30 ppm of CO2, flow unchanged, I decided to tinker with the thing that I feared for so long - light.
Slight context, prior to this little experiment/overlapped (because I am not a "good" scientist heh), I stopped dosing excel entirely -- I know, I know all of this is a recipe for disaster!!!!
I will say that I induced a carbon deficiency in my rotala (nothing else ... unless it is coming ) -- it recovered though. Ironically, no algae on many of my "melted" leaves -- no idea why not.
Over the past week or two, I have probably doubled my light - not changing anything else.
Observations:
1) pearling is like I have never seen --- makes sense.
2) I did NOT clean the left bottom part of my glass, because I forgot (though I will claim it is on purpose to feel good about my experiment ) GSA on that part - and not noticeable unless your eyes are against the glass.
3) I have unhealthy Buce and healthy Buce in my tank - GSA on my unhealthy to begin with Buce -- I THINK (and please weigh in), the spores were already there ... I have simply sped up the process -- so in a month or two, I would see it form instead of 2 weeks. Interestingly, the healthy Buce have no algae - even with more light.
That's about it.
My question - am I just riding out a 2 week "glory" period where the tank hasn't adjusted and all of my plants are going to show deficiencies in about a week? I.e. I have drove the nutrient required by all plants so high and they are not ready for this yet (if this was the case, then I should have seen an algae bloom on my hardscape - no? Is the bloom the GSA?
I have a hunch that the RuBisCo in my plants will need to increase - but I am not sure.
Any insights?
At this current level of light, I will leave the tank for 2 weeks and just observe and then probably manipulate something else.
Josh