Hello friends!
I am here to share my current project, hope to receive your advice and also to contribute what i have learned from this hobby.
I used a tank of 200L (50x80x50 cms), i have always used black soil as a nutrient substrate, sealed with silica and for this project was not the exception hahaha.
I have a Canister filter (1500 L / H)
I add 2 bubbles per second (24H)
And my lamp is home-made with 12 LED bulbs of 10W each.
I make 1 weekly change of water (80%), i use tap water and in each change add:
KNO3 (10 grams = 40 ppm)
KH 2 PO 4 (2 grams = 7.5 ppm)
And consequently 25ppm of Potassium
I also add Seachem Flourish (the dose recommended by the manufacturer)
Tap Water Values:
PH = 7.9
GH = 14
KH = 14
I used plants from a previous project that is why they look bad, the species I added are:
- Rotala Sunset
- Rotala Bonsai
- Rotala Macrandra
- Rotala Blood Red
- Rotala Bangladesh
- Rotala Vietnam
- Rotala Walichi
- Didiplis Diandra
- Alternanthera Variegated
- Pogostemon Erectus
- Hemianthus Glomeratus
- Hyptis Lorentziana
- Ludwigia Mini Super Red
- Ludwigia Inclinata Red
- Ludwigia Brevipes
- Ludwigia Glandulosa
- Staurogyne Repens
- Nesaea Pedicellata Golden
- Cryptocorine Parva
- Elatine hydropiper
This is a picture of the first day:
And here an image 20 days later:
Some details of plants:
Some plants are showing... deficiencies??
For example the nesaea golden have wrinkled and deformed leaves, and the Staurogyne stunted growth.
I will take some more detailed photos haha.
Thank you for reading!
I am here to share my current project, hope to receive your advice and also to contribute what i have learned from this hobby.
I used a tank of 200L (50x80x50 cms), i have always used black soil as a nutrient substrate, sealed with silica and for this project was not the exception hahaha.
I have a Canister filter (1500 L / H)
I add 2 bubbles per second (24H)
And my lamp is home-made with 12 LED bulbs of 10W each.
I make 1 weekly change of water (80%), i use tap water and in each change add:
KNO3 (10 grams = 40 ppm)
KH 2 PO 4 (2 grams = 7.5 ppm)
And consequently 25ppm of Potassium
I also add Seachem Flourish (the dose recommended by the manufacturer)
Tap Water Values:
PH = 7.9
GH = 14
KH = 14
I used plants from a previous project that is why they look bad, the species I added are:
- Rotala Sunset
- Rotala Bonsai
- Rotala Macrandra
- Rotala Blood Red
- Rotala Bangladesh
- Rotala Vietnam
- Rotala Walichi
- Didiplis Diandra
- Alternanthera Variegated
- Pogostemon Erectus
- Hemianthus Glomeratus
- Hyptis Lorentziana
- Ludwigia Mini Super Red
- Ludwigia Inclinata Red
- Ludwigia Brevipes
- Ludwigia Glandulosa
- Staurogyne Repens
- Nesaea Pedicellata Golden
- Cryptocorine Parva
- Elatine hydropiper
This is a picture of the first day:
And here an image 20 days later:
Some details of plants:
Some plants are showing... deficiencies??
For example the nesaea golden have wrinkled and deformed leaves, and the Staurogyne stunted growth.
I will take some more detailed photos haha.
Thank you for reading!
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