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coming on nicely!

 

Problem solved :bigsmile:

 

That does not look fully submersed

Do you boil your wood to remove the tanins(hope I spelled it correctly)

 

It is fully submersed now... It had to absorb some of the water first.

Nope, no boiling water. I can remember reading somewhere on the forum that you do not want to boil it as it will create "soft" spots on the wood that will rot faster.... (If memory serves...)

 

Ok, time for another update I guess

Got some plants from Richard (Thanks Richard)

So here is a picture from a month ago:


This is a photo as of last night:


The HC is also doing really well.

 

Wow well done with the HC its not an easy plant to grow!

 

Very nice man.

 

Looking very nice

 

WOW..great growth...underwater jungle

 

That is looking great. It is giving this soon to be nube (still planning stages) some hope

 

Small update....

So I went to the UK for 2 weeks.... did a trim before I went:


And then 2 weeks later when I came back:

 

Very nice Your Neons seem to approve.

 

Looks nice.

What plant is that at the front right?

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Hi all,

I am currently struggling a bit with algae in my tank... So I think I might have to much light?

I am running 4 x 25W T5 lights where 2 of them are 6500K and the other 2 are 8000K.

I have removed one 6500K and one 8000K to see if it helps.

My Co2 comes on at 12:00 and off at 18:00. Lights on at 13:00 and off at 19:00.

Is it too much light?

 

Are you dosing firts?

 

I am currently dosing Tropica Plant Growth Premium Fertiliser at the recommended dosage as well as Seachem Excel and Seachem Iron 3 times a week at 2ml each.

 

No do not cut lighting, you are only running 6 hours, increase to 8 hours...you are not dosing enough micros here, iron excel is not enough! What about the ballance of the micros? Without the ballance of the micro nutrients your plants will not do as well, and thats why you are getting algae.

 

Thanks for that Hennie. What do you suggest? Up the current ferts or is there something else i need to add?

 

You are using seachem range, so this is what you need

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[TD="class: xl63, width: 221, bgcolor: transparent"]Nitrogen [/TD]
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[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, bgcolor: transparent"]Phosphorus [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, bgcolor: transparent"]Potassium [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, bgcolor: transparent"]Flourish Comprehensive[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, bgcolor: transparent"]Iron [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, bgcolor: transparent"]Excel [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, bgcolor: transparent"]Trace

Dont increase your ferts, use as directed, but get all these as without it you are doomed!:viking:[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

Sweet! thank a lot!

But what about my tropica fertiliser? Should I keep using it?