do i can grow cuba or glosso in a low light excel tank? or what carpeting plant do you recommend?
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Kyalgae said:Here's two pictures, one from June 2014, and another 2 months later, from August 2014. These are pictures from when I first started with aquariums.
This was just from adding excel only, no fertilizer. I think the substrate may have had something in it, although it wasn't aquasoil.
edelry.junior said:I really would like to save you the trouble of going through several different plants/attempts, but I do not have that much experience.
What I do know is that I tried several different carpet plants, using light, CO2 and glutaraldehyde (pretty much the same thing as excel) and I never succedded. I did have a lot of ferts in the substrate as well.
But the moment I started dosing ferts in the water column, it all worked out just fine.
These photos are from when I started EI. The top one was the result of several attempts to grow HC Cuba, with lots of light, CO2 and Excel.
Bottom one is after 15 days dosing full EI.
Maybe with excel and low lights you can get montecarlo to work, but I doubt you will get it without anything in the water column.
My 2 cents anyway. I am sure there is a lot of people better at this than me.
rajkm said:I have grown Monte Carl, DGH and HC in soil substrate with Excel and Flourish/Thrive with good light
rajkm said:I have grown Monte Carl, DGH and HC
rajkm said:I have grown Monte Carl, DGH and HC in soil substrate with Excel and Flourish/Thrive with good light
edelry.junior said:Good results. I thought it should be feasible, but I am glad to know you already did it.
Guess you are set and good to go, Gabriel
rajkm said:I have grown Monte Carl, DGH and HC in soil substrate with Excel and Flourish/Thrive with good light
edelry.junior said:Light should not be an issue, unless you have a high tank. If your tank is 40cm / 15 inches high, normal lighting should be fine. Do not push a lot a light into a non co2 tank, that's not going to work.
Also, add a rich substrate. I do think rajkm is correct in his assumption. Using pure sand will not help you.