DavidW
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This is my 190 litre planted discus tank.
Thanks, you have confirmed what I thought really about the stock lighting. My new small tank with strong lighting is doing the same, carpeting plants growing great, not the case in the trigon, but ove found they grow well floated
Sorry Gents,
I have to disagree with the stock t5s from Juwel, the growth might not be as quick you're used to or like but my 190 only has the 2 T5s. I'm having success with Ludwigia Arcuata &Palustris (super red), Prospinaca Palustris, Limnophila (not sure if its Hippodroides or aromatica).
I've also got a mixed carpet of marislea hirsuta, glosso and monte carlo (tried all three because of problems with CO2 initially) and after decorating for a month (and total neglect) I found that the carpet had taken in spite of my bronze corys.
I seem to be blessed with good soft water so maybe that's got a part to play too.
The biggest factor in getting all these plants was dialling the CO2.
Substrate's plain old pea gravel capping tropica growth (under substrate stuff) and at a decade old it never fails to amaze me. I'm dosing much reduced version of PMDD + PO4 a la Tom Barr's recipe (sorry my link doesn't work anymore) but at alternate days instead of both in one day. Still trying to find the sweet spot for dosing.
Anyway hope I'm not coming across as argumentative or a blah blah blah
That's a beautiful tank David, really nice I'd like a 350 but my corner isn't big enough.Hi here's my Trigon 350 with the iquatics main light and CO2 injection
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CO2 make a big difference with the carpet plants.
To echo Deansie David, your tank/fish are gorgeous.