willsy
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Hi,
Just wondered if I could ask a question with regard to my current parameters and dosing regime?
I have been running an aquarium for many years, but always been low tech. I recently moved into high tech / co2 injection, so this is all a learning curve currently!
The reason I'm posting this is that my plant growth isn't great at the moment. It's slow and not as I would have expected for high tech!
My current setup is a 140L aquarium with 2 Aquaray Grobeam 600's running at 35% intensity for 8 hours a day. I've ended up turning them right down as I had a problem with algae. I've slowly turned them up from 25% to 35% where they are running at the moment.
I have Seachem Flourite substrate.
I dose EI (macro's and micros) every other day for 5 days with 2 days rest. I then do a 50% water change using 50% tap water and 50% RO water. I do this as I live in a very hard water area and keep Tetra's and Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish.
I also dose liquid carbon daily (3ml) and also inject c02 (approx 2 to 3 bps).
Recently I also started dosing 15ml of Iron per week at water change as I thought this might help.
At water change I also dose 1/8 teaspoon Equilibrium and 1 teaspoon of GH boost.
My readings are as follows:
ph 6.6 (while dosing c02). Think it's usually around 7.4.
Nitrate 40ppm
GH = 11 drops (196ppm)
KH = 7 drops (125ppm)
Phosphate > 10ppm
Not sure if there are any obvious issues here? I know my water is quite hard and I'm dosing Equilibrium and GH boost at water change. Could I leave this out at least? Do I need the equilibrium and GH boost if I live in a hard to very hard water area and am mixing 50% RO and 50% tap?
Any help would be appreciated to get my indoor garden looking lush. We only have courtyards here in Brighton, so this is my replacement garden indoors!
Cheers
Will.
Just wondered if I could ask a question with regard to my current parameters and dosing regime?
I have been running an aquarium for many years, but always been low tech. I recently moved into high tech / co2 injection, so this is all a learning curve currently!
The reason I'm posting this is that my plant growth isn't great at the moment. It's slow and not as I would have expected for high tech!
My current setup is a 140L aquarium with 2 Aquaray Grobeam 600's running at 35% intensity for 8 hours a day. I've ended up turning them right down as I had a problem with algae. I've slowly turned them up from 25% to 35% where they are running at the moment.
I have Seachem Flourite substrate.
I dose EI (macro's and micros) every other day for 5 days with 2 days rest. I then do a 50% water change using 50% tap water and 50% RO water. I do this as I live in a very hard water area and keep Tetra's and Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish.
I also dose liquid carbon daily (3ml) and also inject c02 (approx 2 to 3 bps).
Recently I also started dosing 15ml of Iron per week at water change as I thought this might help.
At water change I also dose 1/8 teaspoon Equilibrium and 1 teaspoon of GH boost.
My readings are as follows:
ph 6.6 (while dosing c02). Think it's usually around 7.4.
Nitrate 40ppm
GH = 11 drops (196ppm)
KH = 7 drops (125ppm)
Phosphate > 10ppm
Not sure if there are any obvious issues here? I know my water is quite hard and I'm dosing Equilibrium and GH boost at water change. Could I leave this out at least? Do I need the equilibrium and GH boost if I live in a hard to very hard water area and am mixing 50% RO and 50% tap?
Any help would be appreciated to get my indoor garden looking lush. We only have courtyards here in Brighton, so this is my replacement garden indoors!
Cheers
Will.