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nugget's 4ft tank

Nugget90

Seedling
Joined
20 Jul 2013
Messages
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Location
Pretoria - South Africa
Specs:
120x46x45 cm
Lighting : ATI 6x54w (7hours)
Co2: Pressurized running at 6bps
Filter: Tetratec ex-1200 and added an eheim 2026 to the newest scape.
Ferts: tropica specialized, kcl, kh2po4, kno3 - using Vertex autodoser
DIY ADA cabinet

timelapse of this scape till now: tank was started in feb 2012 but i guess pictures from a year back is good enough..

june 2013
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August 2013
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September
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January 2014
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February 2014
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March 2014
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May 2014
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May (rescape)
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june
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July
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August
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What a great looking tank. September is my favourite, the umbrella grass (is it?) growing out the top with the moss covered branch is a winner for me... not that March isn't lovely too!
 
Beautiful! Do you get much algae? I run 7-8bps CO2 with 4x 54W and there's BBA everywhere. And the plants don't even grow for some strange reason.
 
Had a lot of algae at the start up period, but thats normal for me...
I also got BBA quite bad, but that was from doing my water changes with just ro water. so had a big ph swing. since then i have used normal tap water. but mixing 20% ro with as my tap water is quite hard. Also upped my ferts 2 times. and my plant growth has exploded.
 
You mean you dose 2x EI? I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my setup. Its just not growing well and BBA is everywhere.
 
You mean you dose 2x EI? I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my setup. Its just not growing well and BBA is everywhere.

@flygja - send me a message so we can chat a bit...

but as for the amount of ferts im dosing per week:

NO3 - 19.51 ppm
PO4 - 5.08 ppm
K - 16.78 ppm
Tropica specialized for traces - 22ml / week
 
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