Hello,
2 months ago I bought the tank below without special goal. After buying a light that I thought it was needed, and having an algae bloom, I realized that I would prefer the low-tech method with low light and perhaps excel and WC every week (30-50%). The following is my spec :
Questions :
2 months ago I bought the tank below without special goal. After buying a light that I thought it was needed, and having an algae bloom, I realized that I would prefer the low-tech method with low light and perhaps excel and WC every week (30-50%). The following is my spec :
- The fluval vista 23g
- Capacity : 23g
- Aquarium Size : 30” x 12” x 18” (76 x 30 x 45.7 cm)
- Filter : AquaClear 50
- Light (Included LED in the hood)
- LED Watts : 8.4 W
- LED Lumens : 800 LM
- LED Color Temp. : 8000 K
- 8 hours a day, separated in 2
- My plants are :
- Hygrophila siemensis 53b (Died in my bleach solution. Ordered a new one at LFS)
- Microsorum pterotus narrow
- taxyphyllum spiky
- crytocoryne x willisi
- bacopa compact
- anubia petite
- anubia gracilis
- anubia nana (not yet received from LFS)
- Bucephalandra
- Limnobium laevigatum (not yet received from LFS)
- Soil
- Netlea Langa Soil
- CaribSea Super Nat (white sand)
- Fertilization
- Tropica premium, one pump every day (1,2 ml)
- WC 30-50% every week
- Fish/shrimps
- 6 guppies
- 10 neon tetra
- 6 amano
- 4 cherry
- 2 bloody mary
- 1 blue rilli
- (I`d like to add 4-6 cory in a near future)
Questions :
- Light : Is my light is OK for low-tech non-CO2 (perhaps excel)? I would say 800LM and PAR 30 is OK, but I want to make sure. Otherwise, I will go back to my T5H0, but with only 1x24w instead
- Excel : I read PlantedAquaria_2001_2_22 paper from Ole Pederson where it says that some CO2 is good for growing plants even in low-light. I might want to add excel, but I read that some plants don`t like it. In the list above, is there a plant that don`t like excel?
- Fertilization : I read quite a bit about EI. I don`t want to calculate my own dose, and I am wondering if adding the recommended dose of tropica premium is kind of doing EI? I am adding one pump every day (1,2 ml).