Re: saintly's "The Miracle Mire"
ok, and on with the journal....
i've been reading in a particular ADA magazine that, if TH is too low m umbrosum will not grow so well. amano recommended third water changes almost every day for 3 weeks to keep th up. ive been applying this over he last few days, and it appears that the umbrosum has started to come upwards
. now i dont know much about the the real science behing it, i'm just glad its happeneing.
the other beneficial thing is the water clarity is jus=t amazing. the whole tank just radiates greens like ive never seen before in my tanks.
algae issues are zero. ive not had to clean the glass once from the inside, dying crypts leaves show signs but i just cut them off.
ive added some fish, purley so i have something to do....feeding fish and keep bacteria alive. there's a small shoal of embers and some silver tip tetras. these are NOT the fish choice, just doing a job that's all....something to look at!
another thing ive done is up the co2 levels from a dark green in the drop checker to light green. and of an evening there's a huge difference in the amount the tank pearls.
i'm leaving the r rotundifolia until its about 2/3 inches across the top of the water until i trim, maybe a 2 days longer.
the emerged form of e tenellus had flower tips when i bought them now there immersed there producing the underwater leaf, but the flower stem is starting to grow upwards
would it flower?...i dont know.
i think thats it for the time being