Thanks Whiskey! Plants will do, dimmable led really allows me to dial in the perfect amount of light(good growth with minimal algae). A beautiful planted shrimp tank is with out a doubt attainable, especially with dsm. The hc looks like there is very little growth but when you pull it up the roots are like 2" long! I think that is extremely important to the success with hc.
I do not dose excell or any ferts for that matter, honestly not a thing. Shrimp breeding is my #1 priority, not super fast plant growth, even though i was trimming a ton of hc weekly with the last tank set up. I could not tell you par levels, planning on attending my first SAPS meeting this week so maybe i can borrow theirs.I think the light can do well over 100 but i only ran it at 30% and 3 hours of that is ramping. So really not a ton of light.
Tank has cleared and i am very happy with it The glosso continues to grow EXTREMELY fast. Hc is also showing a bunch of new growth, unfortunately has bga showing up on it. Started dosing EM two days ago, should take care of it. Had the same thing happen last time.
Really surprised how good things are transitioning with out co2. Especially since rkl is controlling temp on temporary tiger tank, so LED is running at 100%
Hopefully be able to try adding some shrimp in another couple weeks. Will sacrifice some blondes to see what happens.
A couple pics.
I do not dose excell or any ferts for that matter, honestly not a thing. Shrimp breeding is my #1 priority, not super fast plant growth, even though i was trimming a ton of hc weekly with the last tank set up. I could not tell you par levels, planning on attending my first SAPS meeting this week so maybe i can borrow theirs.I think the light can do well over 100 but i only ran it at 30% and 3 hours of that is ramping. So really not a ton of light.
Tank has cleared and i am very happy with it The glosso continues to grow EXTREMELY fast. Hc is also showing a bunch of new growth, unfortunately has bga showing up on it. Started dosing EM two days ago, should take care of it. Had the same thing happen last time.
Really surprised how good things are transitioning with out co2. Especially since rkl is controlling temp on temporary tiger tank, so LED is running at 100%
Hopefully be able to try adding some shrimp in another couple weeks. Will sacrifice some blondes to see what happens.
A couple pics.