Very good stuff indeed! I wish to contribute to the discussion by telling you my experience with Rotala Nanjenshan, that since I moved into EI I am no longer able to grow it (it just stops growing and dies...).
The pictures below are from my tank 8 years ago, much before I discovered EI. That's my current 75gl tank, and at that time I had just Eco Complete as substrate topped with gravel, and dosing just 5m of Flourish Comprehensive once a week (!!!). At that time I had just 3 T8 lights on that tank (40w each, for a total of 120w), 8 hours a day. Co2 was just 3 bubbles per second, I guess about 0.6-0.7 PH drop? But I remember I used to start Co2 very early in the morning (at around 6am) and stop at around 9pm. Lights used to start at around 1pm and stop at 9pm.
Other details: I always had a over-sized sump, so I guess I had a lot of degassing. Also, I used to not clean pre-filters much (probably just one a month?) and I remember I had almost no circulation, I had a very small Eheim 1000 driving everything (Co2 AM1000 reactor included!)
At that time, no algae in the tank, zero. Java moss also used to grow like crazy, and now I struggle to keep it alive.
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The pictures below are from my tank 8 years ago, much before I discovered EI. That's my current 75gl tank, and at that time I had just Eco Complete as substrate topped with gravel, and dosing just 5m of Flourish Comprehensive once a week (!!!). At that time I had just 3 T8 lights on that tank (40w each, for a total of 120w), 8 hours a day. Co2 was just 3 bubbles per second, I guess about 0.6-0.7 PH drop? But I remember I used to start Co2 very early in the morning (at around 6am) and stop at around 9pm. Lights used to start at around 1pm and stop at 9pm.
Other details: I always had a over-sized sump, so I guess I had a lot of degassing. Also, I used to not clean pre-filters much (probably just one a month?) and I remember I had almost no circulation, I had a very small Eheim 1000 driving everything (Co2 AM1000 reactor included!)
At that time, no algae in the tank, zero. Java moss also used to grow like crazy, and now I struggle to keep it alive.
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