When I took the Purigen out and everything exploded with growth, the plan was to slowly cut a few things down. Zn was first because, on paper at least, it seemed like I was dosing an incredibly high level. But then a couple weeks later increasing KNO3 sparked another surge in the general well-being of everything so I scrapped the idea of cutting micros any further, at least for the time being.Thank you @burr740 for sharing your new tank's setup. Plants are really doing great. I noticed you lowered your Zn dosing from 0.075 ppm to 0.065 ppm... Any particular reason? Thanks
When I took the Purigen out and everything exploded with growth, the plan was to slowly cut a few things down. Zn was first because, on paper at least, it seemed like I was dosing an incredibly high level. But then a couple weeks later increasing KNO3 sparked another surge in the general well-being of everything so I scrapped the idea of cutting micros any further, at least for the time being.
No plans to lower it further. If the KNO3 thing had happened first I wouldnt have lowered it at all. That shined a whole new light on things - macros starting to run low with higher traces.So... Do you plan keeping Zn at that level or lowering it even further?
When I took the Purigen out and everything exploded with growth
Oh right, I believe that discussion is a few pages back in the custom micro thread on TPT, maybe this one too but for sure the one over there.I tried going back a few pages, but could not find why you decided to remove Purigen. Could you provide some background on this? I run Purigen in my filter, but have read only good things about it.
No plans to lower it further. If the KNO3 thing had happened first I wouldnt have lowered it at all. That shined a whole new light on things - macros starting to run low with higher traces.
If anything the next mix will have .075 again. That was working fine, probably not a big difference either way.
Do you dose any extra Mg? I know you posted your complete dosing, but I forgot about that... thanks
You are my inspiration! I saw Japonica shrimp on the Mermaid weed photo together with Red Cherry - they can live together without conflicts? And there are no toxicity issues with such high micro dosing? Are they also breeding?
Set up two new 20 longs in the back room.
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Substrate is blasting sand, same as the other tanks. Put down a thin layer of sand first then sprinkled in some Osmocote Plus, capped it off with the rest.
Ive always used the 20/40 medium, just because that's the only grade my local Tractor Supply ever has.I am thinking about trying the black blasting sand you described, but it comes in several grits, I found this on Amazon and it is 30/60, fine grit, is this ok?
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Diamon...517071654&sr=8-1&keywords=black+blasting+sand
Vari AR looks decent..... just part of how the submersed form grows I suspect,
I was comfortable believing that until Dennis Wong posted a pic of his on facebook, remember that? It was in one of the heated micro debate threads I believe.
They were perfectly flat, and the leaves were huge. He had them up high in the tank under very high light, 250-300 PAR near the surface. In Aquasoil with his usual dosing - very high Fe/traces, high P, extremely low NO3 supplemented with heavy urea. Moderate KH with that limestone hardscape
So I know that it's possible. His plants also demonstrate that the crinkling is not directly from high light or higher micros (assuming the right ones appropriate to the system are used) which doesnt mean either one wont make it worse in many cases
Its a conundrum to say the least...
I was comfortable believing that until Dennis Wong posted a pic of his on facebook, remember that? It was in one of the heated micro debate threads I believe.
They were perfectly flat, and the leaves were huge. He had them up high in the tank under very high light, 250-300 PAR near the surface. In Aquasoil with his usual dosing - very high Fe/traces, high P, extremely low NO3 supplemented with heavy urea. Moderate KH with that limestone hardscape
So I know that it's possible. His plants also demonstrate that the crinkling is not directly from high light or higher micros (assuming the right ones appropriate to the system are used) which doesnt mean either one wont make it worse in many cases
Its a conundrum to say the least...
have you played around with the idea of just leaving that spot empty? or just using 1 or 2 more l. aromatica mini in place of the leopard val?Not thrilled with the Leopard val. It's just a big dark shadow unless you see whats on the surface
I think a brighter plant would look better. May put the corkscrew there and a tall grassy something on the right
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what's the new micro looking like so far? i'm getting some NiSO4 in on monday/tuesday and wanted to give that a goGonna try it again with the new dosing
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