Liquid Carbon Source & land fert

[limsteel]

Hello there! My sister got an empty 2.5ft Hexagon tank (20inch tall), as I want to help setup a planted tank with minimum $$$... So I am going to use the following:

Base fert: land base Potting soil (peat, etc mixed) - $5 + Land base fert ball (mainly Fe, N, P, etc...) $5
CO2: Seachem Flourish Excel 250ml - $12...
Gravel: Lapis 20Kg - $20
Light: 55Watts PL light
Filter: existing OHF with low flow pump (as C is from liquid source, so no CO2 to escape)
Fert: LG-Aqua & Micro
Plants: Moss, Cockscrew Val, Tenellus, B. Japonica
Planned Fish load: 6 Angel (cheapo type), 5-10 Corys (cheapo type), 10 over Otos.

Any comments?
Questions?
1. What you think about the land base Soil and fert balls that I will be using.
2. Is Liquid Carbon enough? I don't need the bubbling effect, just need to to gow nicely.

[Simon]

[quote:912e3ff1f7="limsteel"]Hello there! My sister got an empty 2.5ft Hexagon tank (20inch tall), as I want to help setup a planted tank with minimum $$$... So I am going to use the following:

Base fert: land base Potting soil (peat, etc mixed) - $5 + Land base fert ball (mainly Fe, N, P, etc...) $5
CO2: Seachem Flourish Excel 250ml - $12...
Gravel: Lapis 20Kg - $20
Light: 55Watts PL light
Filter: existing OHF with low flow pump (as C is from liquid source, so no CO2 to escape)
Fert: LG-Aqua & Micro
Plants: Moss, Cockscrew Val, Tenellus, B. Japonica
Planned Fish load: 6 Angel (cheapo type), 5-10 Corys (cheapo type), 10 over Otos.

Any comments?
Questions?
1. What you think about the land base Soil and fert balls that I will be using.
2. Is Liquid Carbon enough? I don't need the bubbling effect, just need to to gow nicely.[/quote:912e3ff1f7]

the tank is too big for liquid co2, why don't you try low maintenance tank with any co2 :P. how about just the plain simple DIY co2?

remember to mix the soil with lonestar, or else the soil might get too compacted for the roots of plants

[PeterGwee]

Land base fert ball (mainly Fe, N, P, etc...)

Fancy a major algae bloom by using that. Think about what is the probable cause.

Regards
Peter Gwee

[balacam]

since your title says liquid carbon source, may i take this opportunity to ask whether anybody out there use liquid carbon source who encounter rise in carbonate hardness (kH)? i also use seachem flourish excel and i suspect it is increasing my kH. is it possible?

[balacam]

according to hydrponics (website) classification, roles and sources for plants nutrients, am i right to say that plants will only be able to break up CO2, CO32¯ or HCO3¯, to extract carbon. if it is true, then liquid carbon source must be in the form of CO32¯ or HCO3¯ since co2 is in gas form. can someone advise

[bclee]

In this case, the liquid carbon source is Seachem Flourish Excel. It is not carbonates nor bicarbonates. It is polycycloglutaracetal. It is an organic carbon source.

Here is an artical on Flourish Excel on Seachem website:
http://www.seachem.com/home/ProductSpotlight.html

BC