Plant Growth after CO2 injection

That wont really help the Grass type plant isnt aquatic and wont grow at tall so you might get skewed results

 

I'm only using Trace and Excell.

 

Well, the trace is good stuff, but it is not a complete fert solution. You should also look at the normal Flourish. Dosing Flourish, Flourish Trace, Excell and Injecting Co2 into your tank should be enough to see a good increase in the plant growth.

What is your lighting in the tank? How many Watts per gallon of water do you have?

 

LOL I do not have a clue.Do you calculate the watt of the globes(say 40 w x 2) or the light intensity.Because the old incadescent lamps had a watt rating of lets say 100 and the new globes something like 11 but the new globes produce more visible light?

 

Are you running T5 lights, T8, or are you using the energy saving CFL bulbs?

You measure the watts of the lights combined. So if you have 2x 40 watt lights in a 120l tank, you have 40 gallons and 80 watts of light. That would give you 2 watts per gallon.

When using CFL energy savers, you work it on the actual wattage on the globe. So the globe that says 11 watts = 60watts, you still use the 11 watt to do the calculations...

I fear that you have too little light for the Co2 and ferts to make too much of a difference. Ideally you should be between 2 and 3 watts per gallon.

To work out how many gallons your tank is, just divide the liters by 4.

 

Thanx will do now.Worked out at 2.5 watts per gallon.BUT my tank depth is 700.
Might be a problem.

 

Definitely not enough. I run 4 20W CFL with a reflector over a section of my 6ft tank which is 600 deep. Equivalent of close to 400W incandescant. No way that it comes even close to how well my 4X39W T5 pendant penetrates

 

Absolutely... I agree with Neil. You've got too little light in your tank.

I would upgrade to T5 or possible, budget willing, Metal Halides. My main 400l tank has 2 x 150watt metal halides. They are strong enough to penetrate the 800mm to the bottom of the tank. I can grow Glosso with this light. I have just over 3watts per gallon.

 

Any tank with a water depth of more than 45cm need HID to grow carpet plants well. No arguments; I am convinced. HID can be MH or mercury vapour or sodium street light bulbs. You get the latter in "colour corrected" versions these days and they are quite cheap and hell of a bright. And you can DIY nice pendants to hang from the ceiling and keep the ballasts in the ceiling too. Mmm, more I think about that I may even consider it!

 

There are some nice lighting units going around these days, you could find a good deal around here. Liaquat has some nice goodies I believe.

But 700mm... as Laure said... If you want carpet plants, get something more powerful than T5's even...

 

Slojo - where did you get the Seachem products in PTA?

 

Animal Kingdom Imports their own stock, the have a wide selection
Moolis also has some of the products, then Pet City Montana has just started stocking one or two of their products, and then that pet store in the centre down simon vermooten also has one or two of their products

 

Liaquat (ALTUM) also stock Seachem products.

 

yeah he does as well, though isnt he in capetown?

 

Nothing wrong with speed services or a reliable courier...

 

also true, i'm just a skint keeper though, i need him to set up shop here in PTA too, lol, hint hint
the only Pta-based sponsor on here, Moolis, almost never comes on here either, sigh, but anyway he sells the flourish/excell stuff as well
(petstop)

 

And I still have not been able to find Moolis - where is the shop ?

 

Pet Stop SA. Shop no 15/17 Rietfontein Pavilion Centre. C/O Jacobs str and Frates rd Rietfontein Pretoria Gauteng South Africa. Tel +27 12 3298965
Fax +27 12 3298965. E-mail moolis@petstopsa.com or moolman@lantic.net
Trading Hours: Weekdays from 10hoo - 18hoo. Saturdays from 09hoo -14hoo

http://www.petstopsa.co.za/

 

Thanks Ferryman - very kind of you. Will visit Pet Stop soon.

 

Hi

Just one thing...
Anybody use Peat?
I use Peat, Tetra Substrate, Flourish Trace, and CO2 Injection....
All i can say is Wow..
Just be ready to do extra trimming.... ;o)