Hi all,
long time no see howyalldoin' ?!
Thanks to some very stressful time in my professional life (which also effected my private life) I neglected all my planted aquariums for a long time now (approx 8 month). Beside feeding the fish and occasionally removing some overgrown plants (especially the floating ones) and dumping in every now and then a bit of NPK+traces (every 2 month) I didn't pay much attention to my planted aquariums.
Knowing that I will neglect them made me introduce floating plants (for NH4 removal) to 3 of them but one.
NOTE; No water change, No filter cleaning, Only water top-up! Filters were so dirty which reduced the pump's circulation!
3 tanks (2 low light and 1 Hi-light) with floating plants didn't get any algae at all, slow submersed plant growth but healthy leaves.
The 4th tank (medium light) without any floating plants did have algae on the glass and some BBA (but not much) on the Hygro leaves.
I would like to discuss the 54 litres High-light Low Tech/Walstad tank 8)
This aquarium was set-up as a Hi-Tech at first but after the CO2 malfunctioning creating huge Green Water (Algae Bloom) problem I disconnected it and introduced lots of floating plants like Salvinia natans, Azola caroliniana and some Duck weed which in fact did help very fast in removing all the green water (I think I have a thread about it somewhere on this forum).
I never connected the pressurized CO2 again and kept the floating plants creating a Walstad Low Tech.
I used potting soil for this tank.
I left the CO2 Drop Checker in out of pure laziness.
Yesterday I FINALY decided to FIX my tanks a bit and was shocked to see my drop checker showing high CO2 levels in that Hi-Light Low-Tech aquarium... light green color !!!
Tank photo made after the tank maintenance (plant pieces floating all over sorry);
Getting such levels of CO2 in a low tech is amazing! What are your thoughts on this?
Kind regards, Dusko
long time no see howyalldoin' ?!
Thanks to some very stressful time in my professional life (which also effected my private life) I neglected all my planted aquariums for a long time now (approx 8 month). Beside feeding the fish and occasionally removing some overgrown plants (especially the floating ones) and dumping in every now and then a bit of NPK+traces (every 2 month) I didn't pay much attention to my planted aquariums.
Knowing that I will neglect them made me introduce floating plants (for NH4 removal) to 3 of them but one.
NOTE; No water change, No filter cleaning, Only water top-up! Filters were so dirty which reduced the pump's circulation!
3 tanks (2 low light and 1 Hi-light) with floating plants didn't get any algae at all, slow submersed plant growth but healthy leaves.
The 4th tank (medium light) without any floating plants did have algae on the glass and some BBA (but not much) on the Hygro leaves.
I would like to discuss the 54 litres High-light Low Tech/Walstad tank 8)
This aquarium was set-up as a Hi-Tech at first but after the CO2 malfunctioning creating huge Green Water (Algae Bloom) problem I disconnected it and introduced lots of floating plants like Salvinia natans, Azola caroliniana and some Duck weed which in fact did help very fast in removing all the green water (I think I have a thread about it somewhere on this forum).
I never connected the pressurized CO2 again and kept the floating plants creating a Walstad Low Tech.
I used potting soil for this tank.
I left the CO2 Drop Checker in out of pure laziness.
Yesterday I FINALY decided to FIX my tanks a bit and was shocked to see my drop checker showing high CO2 levels in that Hi-Light Low-Tech aquarium... light green color !!!
Tank photo made after the tank maintenance (plant pieces floating all over sorry);
Getting such levels of CO2 in a low tech is amazing! What are your thoughts on this?
Kind regards, Dusko