Re: Tonsers 14L Nano Rouge
hellohefalump said:
This is starting to look really cool, it'll look great once the HC has grown out. I like the rocks.
Thanks
Its a week since planting, so I thought I'd add a couple of pics to show the progress
I've got a nice daily routine with it now - 25% water change first thing in the morning, then dose .25ml TPN+ and .25ml Easy Carbo. The COS switches on at 8, and the light at 9.30, then the CO2 off at 2pm and the light off at 3.30pm - this gives me a greeny yellow drop checker for most of the photoperiod.
I've had random pearling going on, the first time was after an afternoon water change, then the other there was mid afternoon. It seems to pearl more when the flow on the filter is turned down - I guess the faster flow displaces more of the O2 and CO2 ?
The inhabitants are now in - about 35 cherry shrimp from LD, and 5 baby Black Corys too. I think I might have brought myself trouble putting the corys in so soon, as I keep finding little tufts of HC at the surface
. Speaking of the HC there are tiny new leaves starting to appear through the substrate so there is growth going on under there - I planted it fairly deep, so hopefully its spreading through the sub nicely
The Eleocharis acicularis looks to be doing well, with the shoots that were below the 'cutline' when I planted them, now up to twice the height of the cut blades - there are lots of new shoots popping through too.
I've a bit of phyllanthus fluitans floating in there too to see if I can get it red - the lfs has some in their nano and its an amzing deep red colour both on its leaves and roots so hopefully this will do the same. Do the leaves already there turn red, or is it the new growth that will (hopefully) be red ?
So, so far so good
. Signs of growth, no signs of algae, and happy shrimp
Tony