Hi Spid,
Are you adding too much Prime? It states use 5ml to 200liters of new top up water.
My pail is about 10liters, hence I use only a few drops.
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Hi Spid,
Are you adding too much Prime? It states use 5ml to 200liters of new top up water.
My pail is about 10liters, hence I use only a few drops.
i shall share my experience for topping up water as well..I have a 4L super nano tank with 5 grade A crs(very difficult to maintain parameter stability), what I did is that I treat my tap water using those 5L mineral bottle then leave overnight(bottle looks similar to knife oil 5L bottle) with shizen and mineral plus..I use it to top up water and water changes with no problem at all(0 death in 2mths since i started and even have berried females ).I kind of discourage adding distilled water because it may cause change to the parameters to the water in the tank thus shocking the shrimps (unless you use the tau huey method). I failed the first time going by this method of using tap water for changes and distilled for top ups(different parameters).
Oh, the last time I use aged water treated with Seachem Prime and Mineral Plus, my shrimps died. Not sure if this is the cause but generally the feedback I got here is "mineral plus cannot add too much".
By the way, what is tau huey method?
Tauhuey method means, they use a tuahuey container to remove the water, and they'll replace it with the equal amount of water back. Mineral plus cannot add too much, unless you got very very low gH in your tank.
but my fan that keep the water cold one week evaporate my two feet almost like 15 percent so i think by just adding water will do.......and for my tank no casualties for half a year so yeah.
I used to only take away 10% of the water , and then replace with water which has been aged for several months
My experience, when my water evaporates due to using a fan in a small tank. I just top up with aged water stored for a week. But every week try to do 20% water change for smaller tanks 2ft and below. If bigger tanks probably you got lots of media, good filtration canister and prefilter probably you don't need to do water change so frequent maybe once or twice a month.
I owned a 2ft tank, everytime I do water change, I will use a dropper to dose about 10ml Seachem safe powder premixed and 7~8 spoon scoops of Mosura shizen to condition water then I will use a small measuring cup of about 30ml water to mix 1 scoop of BT-9, Bio-plus and mineral plus one at a time till dissolved then add in tank to further enhance conditioning. Water will be cloudy when you add all the additives, once cycle for awhile it will clear up.
As I have alot of moss, I do daily dosage of BW Lush and 8hrs of light to maintain their healthy lush green.
kermit13sg, marimo won't turn brown for 8hrs of light, instead it will grow bigger at a faster rate. Plants need light to photosynthesis, more light means faster growth. It also depends on the light setup you use. I notice difference in using T8 and T5 light tubes, I personally used 2 tube T-5, it improves growth and color of my moss. T-8 not that good, plants don't look that green.
Plant turns brown/yellowish usually are lack of light and nutrient/mineral in water. Therefore introduce some liquid fert or minerals will help enhances growth and color.
Should be good enough as long your tank is not very deep. Because eventually is how bright and how much light can penetrate into your water to reach the bottom plants. Use the 12000k sunlight tubes.
Aquazonic have quite good and affordable ones. 2 tube T-5 cost about $36~$38. Can look out for 2nd hand ones too.
Cool, thanks so much for the info
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