Re: Sam's Nano Emersed HC journal
Right, first off. Big apology for not being very active recently, life's been stressful and Ive just not had the time. Hopefully that will change now (until my hols in July

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Anyway, I finally got around to taking some 'final' shops of my nano now that I sorted out the long running issue it had with growing plants. I turns out that it IS possible to have to much light. Basically, running 2x24w T5's is just to much for HC to cope with so it just grows really slowly, perhaps its a built in fail safe, who knows. Either way, once I dropped the light down to 1x24w T5 (the Arcadia Plantpro) the HC went ballistic and its been plain sailing ever since. No algae so the EI must be working! First time ever! I'll be stripping it down to rescape as the HC is rapidly dieing at the base so it needs it, gives me a chance to try something new

Got the next scape planned
Current stocking is 11xgreen neon, 2xotto, numerous and breeding cheery shrimp and 4 nerite snails (the work horse of my algae eating crew).
Here are the pics
Sam