My tank has been running for a little more than 2 months. I still have some algae on my plants.
My water is clear and I do 50%WC every week.
Question. When I trim the tips of my plants the lower part of the plants have some algae and they don't look as good as the top portions of the plants. Is this normal? I would think so because they're not getting as much light as the tops of the plants. Did I just answer my own question?
My CO2 is 29ppm My light is a twinstar 900s I'm dosing at half the Ei amount for a 40 gal tank.
The light is on for 6.5hrs a day
The CO2 starts 1.5 hours before the lights turn on and it shuts off 1 hour before the lights turn off.
My amounts are as follows.
Macs
7.5 mil 3x week KNO3 = 3.7525ppm NO3 per dose.
7.5 mil 3x week KH2PO4 = 0.661 P ppm per dose.
From both of these the K = 3.193 ppm per dose. Question: Should I be adding K2SO4 to increase the K since I'm not dosing the full amounts?
Mics
10 mil 3x week CSM+B = fe 0.2002 ppm per dose. Question: I've read a couple of articles that say the target fe should be 0.5ppm?
If I've left any info out let me know.
Thanks every one..
My water is clear and I do 50%WC every week.
Question. When I trim the tips of my plants the lower part of the plants have some algae and they don't look as good as the top portions of the plants. Is this normal? I would think so because they're not getting as much light as the tops of the plants. Did I just answer my own question?
My CO2 is 29ppm My light is a twinstar 900s I'm dosing at half the Ei amount for a 40 gal tank.
The light is on for 6.5hrs a day
The CO2 starts 1.5 hours before the lights turn on and it shuts off 1 hour before the lights turn off.
My amounts are as follows.
Macs
7.5 mil 3x week KNO3 = 3.7525ppm NO3 per dose.
7.5 mil 3x week KH2PO4 = 0.661 P ppm per dose.
From both of these the K = 3.193 ppm per dose. Question: Should I be adding K2SO4 to increase the K since I'm not dosing the full amounts?
Mics
10 mil 3x week CSM+B = fe 0.2002 ppm per dose. Question: I've read a couple of articles that say the target fe should be 0.5ppm?
If I've left any info out let me know.
Thanks every one..