Continuation from this thread.
Here is a crappy not so good photo of the aquarium as it looks now. This was two days ago before I gave it a water change. The aquarium is officially three weeks old.
Please keep in mind that I'm purposely letting the plants grow out so I can trim it the way I would like. I think I will let the left side (Rotala Green) grow out another two weeks before I give it its first trim. Don't get me wrong, the growth has been explosive but I think another two weeks will be just right.
I gave the Amano shrimps away because all they did was play around and chase each other totally ignored the algae. I only feed them once and they still ignored the algae. I would like some pygmy otos but I'm afarid they will uproot my HC. If I can find a very small flying fox I would keep it until it reaches a size too big for the tank.
The only place I get algae is on the rocks, wierd. I started dosing 1/2 EI from originally dosing full EI (because I have mineralized soil), raised the lights, kept up with water changes and I still get algae on the rocks. I raised the light to 1.5' cut back on the photo-period and I still get algae on the rocks.
I have to get a test kit. As soon as everything looks good testing wise, I will get the rams.
Here is a crappy not so good photo of the aquarium as it looks now. This was two days ago before I gave it a water change. The aquarium is officially three weeks old.
Please keep in mind that I'm purposely letting the plants grow out so I can trim it the way I would like. I think I will let the left side (Rotala Green) grow out another two weeks before I give it its first trim. Don't get me wrong, the growth has been explosive but I think another two weeks will be just right.
I gave the Amano shrimps away because all they did was play around and chase each other totally ignored the algae. I only feed them once and they still ignored the algae. I would like some pygmy otos but I'm afarid they will uproot my HC. If I can find a very small flying fox I would keep it until it reaches a size too big for the tank.
The only place I get algae is on the rocks, wierd. I started dosing 1/2 EI from originally dosing full EI (because I have mineralized soil), raised the lights, kept up with water changes and I still get algae on the rocks. I raised the light to 1.5' cut back on the photo-period and I still get algae on the rocks.
I have to get a test kit. As soon as everything looks good testing wise, I will get the rams.
