mort
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Hi, i'm kinda new to planted tanks. I've kept a small 27L shrimp tank for the last couple of years. It is run using easycarbo and profito with 50% weekly water change with a 70/30 RO/tap mix. Light wise its a tmc mini tile and its done pretty well. I've since got a new 60x45x45cm TMC signature and was planning on running it along the same lines. As it sits the lighting is 2 TMC grobeams (looks enough but thinking adding another maybe next summer if needed), substrate is tropica's soil with manado top and I plan to use easycarbo and profito at least to begin with as I have it to hand (any other opinions on what would work much appreciated).
I'm hoping the tank will be a jungle style tank so does the above setup seem sensible?
My main question though is about water changes. I have always done 50% weekly waterchanges with the same 70/30 RO/tap mix (our water is very hard), but just stumbled upon something which stated you shouldn't be doing this for low energy tanks and that topping up or small water changes was better. It will have a decent fish load eventually but probably not until it is a few months old. I also do water changes a few hours before the photoperiod and before I do the daily dosing.
This is basically a tank to help me learn for a while and maybe transitioned into a more complex system in time, so i'm open to any advice on how to go about running it.
many thanks
I'm hoping the tank will be a jungle style tank so does the above setup seem sensible?
My main question though is about water changes. I have always done 50% weekly waterchanges with the same 70/30 RO/tap mix (our water is very hard), but just stumbled upon something which stated you shouldn't be doing this for low energy tanks and that topping up or small water changes was better. It will have a decent fish load eventually but probably not until it is a few months old. I also do water changes a few hours before the photoperiod and before I do the daily dosing.
This is basically a tank to help me learn for a while and maybe transitioned into a more complex system in time, so i'm open to any advice on how to go about running it.
many thanks