Hi Peeps
Long time lurker, first time post
A quick question, really. How is it that many of the photo's here, elsewhere and in the magazine have planted aquariums that are insanely green.
While being relatively new (2-3 months) I am finding it hard to achieve that 'super green' look. I have been doing the right things (I think) but I am yet to achieve that 'wow' factor.
Currently I have:
125 litre juwel tank
Pressurised CO2 that comes on 2 hours before lights and off 1 hour after lights out
8 Hours of light per day (its the standard juwel lighting)
I change 50% of the water weekly
I am dosing with ferts that contains trace elements daily
My CO2 drop checker (I put the bromo blue in not the stuff that came with it) is displaying the green 30ppm
I have two power heads which is circulating the water very well, one is high and another down low
I have a glass difuser situated in a location where the fine bubbles are getting blasted around the tank before reaching the surface
I am ensuring that my filter is in tip top condition, I took out the Carbon layer in the filter
I did not use any substrate, I have a mixture of sand and 4mm gravel
The plants are going nuts, but they just don't have that special green. This set up has been running for around 3 weeks. Some of the leaves started to yellow which I trimmed back and new growth appears to be good. Am I just being really impatient?
I could upgrade the lighting to T5 but after reading a number of posts this is not the first thing to look at.
Some people here just manage to maintain that look from first planted right through all the stages. Any advice would be great.
Long time lurker, first time post
A quick question, really. How is it that many of the photo's here, elsewhere and in the magazine have planted aquariums that are insanely green.
While being relatively new (2-3 months) I am finding it hard to achieve that 'super green' look. I have been doing the right things (I think) but I am yet to achieve that 'wow' factor.
Currently I have:
125 litre juwel tank
Pressurised CO2 that comes on 2 hours before lights and off 1 hour after lights out
8 Hours of light per day (its the standard juwel lighting)
I change 50% of the water weekly
I am dosing with ferts that contains trace elements daily
My CO2 drop checker (I put the bromo blue in not the stuff that came with it) is displaying the green 30ppm
I have two power heads which is circulating the water very well, one is high and another down low
I have a glass difuser situated in a location where the fine bubbles are getting blasted around the tank before reaching the surface
I am ensuring that my filter is in tip top condition, I took out the Carbon layer in the filter
I did not use any substrate, I have a mixture of sand and 4mm gravel
The plants are going nuts, but they just don't have that special green. This set up has been running for around 3 weeks. Some of the leaves started to yellow which I trimmed back and new growth appears to be good. Am I just being really impatient?
I could upgrade the lighting to T5 but after reading a number of posts this is not the first thing to look at.
Some people here just manage to maintain that look from first planted right through all the stages. Any advice would be great.