Dosing nutrients is nothing compared to Co2 and the correct light spread.
Here are pics of my 60gal cube after 2 months(yes thats right, two month, well more like 8 weeks) of not dosing or feeding fish.
(I just didnt have the time to tend to the tank and it was doing ok so I didnt bother).
Of course the substrate had some nutrients in it and I had nutrients in the water column before I stopped dosing.
Attention: I havent touched the tank AT ALL for 2 months.
My plants still pearl alot., the colors on some are not as good as they should be, but nearly no algae, there is very little on the top moss, but none on the anubias, ect. I have very good CO2 spread though.
Here is a picture of tank after some initial pruning(I had way more mass, pulled out about 5lbs of plant mass).
My light is a 150w MH with a good reflector, light is between 150 where the moss is and 80 PAR at the bottom.
The purpose of this post is to show that people pay way too much attention to dosing abit more of this, more of that, less of the other thing... Its all about even light spread, CO2 and maybe a good substrate that can take in nutrients and release them when they deplete - helps make things more ballanced.
P.S. sorry for the poor picture, will take some better ones later....
Here are pics of my 60gal cube after 2 months(yes thats right, two month, well more like 8 weeks) of not dosing or feeding fish.
(I just didnt have the time to tend to the tank and it was doing ok so I didnt bother).
Of course the substrate had some nutrients in it and I had nutrients in the water column before I stopped dosing.
Attention: I havent touched the tank AT ALL for 2 months.
My plants still pearl alot., the colors on some are not as good as they should be, but nearly no algae, there is very little on the top moss, but none on the anubias, ect. I have very good CO2 spread though.
Here is a picture of tank after some initial pruning(I had way more mass, pulled out about 5lbs of plant mass).
My light is a 150w MH with a good reflector, light is between 150 where the moss is and 80 PAR at the bottom.
The purpose of this post is to show that people pay way too much attention to dosing abit more of this, more of that, less of the other thing... Its all about even light spread, CO2 and maybe a good substrate that can take in nutrients and release them when they deplete - helps make things more ballanced.
P.S. sorry for the poor picture, will take some better ones later....
