liquid carbon based tanks

[plantnoob]

giving serious consideration to selling on my reg etc and going to a liquid carbon based tank . what im trying to find is a good comprehensive list of plants for such a setup ( not sure wether its classed low tech or "mid tech" . anybody got any good links please ?

 

[Piece-of-fish]

High tech i am afraid. And a potential hazard to your health.

 

[Andy Thurston]

High tech i am afraid. And a potential hazard to your health.

High tech is any tank with added carbon source
More risk of asthma if you use diy glut, but unlikley at our exposure levels

Loads of info here
Glutaraldehyde | UK Aquatic Plant Society

Sorry it dosent help with sensitive plant list, but vallis dosent like it

 

[sa80mark]

I have been looking into this as my tank is going to be using liquid carbon, ive struggled to find any definitive answer to what plants work and what dont but from what ive gathered vallis and riccia are a no go but ive seen threads on various other forums where people say they have had no issues with vallis or riccia, the only thing ive seen that keeps coming up is you have to be very careful spot dosing alot of plants with hc being noted as very prone to melting when spot dosed.
By no means take any of this as gospel as I say ive found very little thats definitive so I believe any tank using liquid carbon is going to be trail and error
Mark

 

[justissaayman]

Is that why my riccia is dying and my Elodea... My Vallis loves it though...

 

[sa80mark]

Another post about this topic seems vallis and riccia can be grown with liquid carbon I think you just have to be very careful not to dose to much or spot dose to treat algue ?

Liquid Carbon.. Which plants hate it ? | UK Aquatic Plant Society

 

[aliclarke86]

My val is fine with daily dose but turn the filter off and dose close to it and its a gonner

 

[plantnoob]

its just something im giving consideration to at the moment , as right now pressurised is doing my head in . having eliminated everything else im sure its the root of my lacklustre plants . cranked it up yet further yesterday . still getting some hair algae , although to be fair , it does seem to be slowly reducing .

 

[Viv]

The only plant I've had trouble with when using liquid carbon is pellia. Everything else - including vallis (which still grew and reproduced rampantly!) - was fine. Even mosses. I've got hc in a small tank that's dosed with liquid carbon and that is also growing well. I've never spot dosed it though so have no idea how it would be affected. I find growth on my echinodorus is slower than when I was trying to get to grips with CO2 but that's no bad thing as it was just ridiculously fast growing!!

Viv