Hi all,
I'm stepping into the planted world with a small 16gallon triangular shaped tank height being 15". It's now almost 3months old. Please check the picture and give suggestions to improve.
Substrate: laterite topped up with river sand
Co2: diy east sugar method, now planning of moving to pressurized system
Light: one 36wt pll, one 18wt T8(1015Lumen) [dont know how to be sure about the spectrum range, both the bulbs are of PHILIPS]
Fert: as of now dosing nitrate and sulphate [one 500ml bottle 1tblsp kno3, another 500ml bottle 1tbsp k2so4 alternate day one cap of each bottle], have got ADA's "be green" 250ml [someone pls help how to get its composition, everything written in Japanese],but after first day using a cap of it I found algae, most probably staghorn [this is the first time I found algae]. I'll post pic soon.
Plants: E. tennulus, star grass, spiral vallisneria, rotala rottundifolia, cardamine lyrata, najas indica, bacopa, marselia, needle leaf java fern, anubias petite, tiger lily, hygrophila difformis, hygrophila polysperma and flame moss[sorry if there r spelling mistakes in the sc names, hope you understand what plant I'm talking of
].
Kindly give suggestions. Thanks in advance.
one green shrimp of my tank:
I'm stepping into the planted world with a small 16gallon triangular shaped tank height being 15". It's now almost 3months old. Please check the picture and give suggestions to improve.

Substrate: laterite topped up with river sand
Co2: diy east sugar method, now planning of moving to pressurized system
Light: one 36wt pll, one 18wt T8(1015Lumen) [dont know how to be sure about the spectrum range, both the bulbs are of PHILIPS]
Fert: as of now dosing nitrate and sulphate [one 500ml bottle 1tblsp kno3, another 500ml bottle 1tbsp k2so4 alternate day one cap of each bottle], have got ADA's "be green" 250ml [someone pls help how to get its composition, everything written in Japanese],but after first day using a cap of it I found algae, most probably staghorn [this is the first time I found algae]. I'll post pic soon.
Plants: E. tennulus, star grass, spiral vallisneria, rotala rottundifolia, cardamine lyrata, najas indica, bacopa, marselia, needle leaf java fern, anubias petite, tiger lily, hygrophila difformis, hygrophila polysperma and flame moss[sorry if there r spelling mistakes in the sc names, hope you understand what plant I'm talking of
Kindly give suggestions. Thanks in advance.
one green shrimp of my tank:
