So I've been a bit rash and made so significant alterations to setup (hardware) as well as some general daily cycle changes.
I have made an alteration to the ferts but I will share this with you another day. As I don't want to jump the gun and start a discussion on this till I have more growth.
So adjustments to setup I have bitten the bullet and doubled the lighting. These are now setup for a full daily setting of full spectrum 8hrs a day this is with my fluvel 3.0 and an additional cheaper led light source with 55w with 95% white, 10% blue, 10% red.
I have zeroed in the co2 to accommodate for the lighting increase and to say I have good pearling daily would be an understatement.
I noticed although the pearling was happening through out the tank it was mainly around the co2 diffuser so I Intially altered the trajectory of the spray bar to adjust the flow. This helped but I felt I could do better, so I have added an additional basic mini sump pump to increase the flow. I have done this 15cm from the substrate approx 10cm above co2 diffuser to hopefully this will improve distribution.
This setup for now till I get a external filter with lilly pipe should do the job (bit hardware ugly) I will also look into a cheap waver maker in the future dependent on the external but I think I'll just go large on the filter to ensure the flow.
Looking forward to sharing a picture update soon. As expected after the tank abuse the alternanthera reineckii mini has decided to melt older leaves and become a snail magnet.
Got to love this plant for its dedication to being a great mineral deficiency indecator and all round pain after any issues a tank has been through!!