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Hi all, I have just set up my planted tank and was looking for some advice as I will be rearing some shrimps in it.
Tank size: 1.5ft
Filter: 2211 with ADA bio rio and Tourmaline F
Light: Up Aqua Pro Z Led
Substrate: ADA Power Sand Special S, ADA Amazonia (normal & powder)
CO2: 3L cylinder at 1bps (will be lowering once carpet is form and shrimp added)
Flora: Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo'
The tank is still new and will be cycling while I grow my flora hoping to get a carpet which would be about 2 months from now. Until then, there will be no livestock in it. Will be adding ADA Brighty K and Green Brighty Step 1 as fertilizers. Should I dose the fertilizers daily or wait till about 3 weeks before starting to dose?
1ml to 20liters per day up to 30 days
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Or you can alternate between step1 and k on daily basis cause small tank step up otherwise algae boom. I got it today so suction it on my hair grass boom like spider web in the tank. Plus water change 50%.
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ADA Green Brightly Step 1 is mainly trace elements... and ADA Brightly K is just potassium. Both are recommended to dose daily from initial startup, they help to replenish the trace nutrients and potassium that are usually used up quickly and depleted by the plants.
Here is the fert dosing guide from ADA: http://www.adana.co.jp/en/products/n...green_brighty/
Those trace and potassium ferts don't contribute as much to algae issues, compared to other macro nutrients like nitrogen and phosphates (which are already supplied by ADA aqua soil during the initial startup period).
What you'd want to avoid is the plants running out of essential trace nutrients and potassium, then they become nutrient deficient and cannot take in more nitrogen and phosphates to grow... when plant growth stalls due to poor nutrient uptake, algae naturally take over.
Last edited by Urban Aquaria; 4th Jun 2014 at 00:10.
nice setup... you don't need 2 months to achieve a carpet... try 6hrs of lighting daily and 1bps co2 and you will have a carpet in 1 month.... Don't go more than 6hrs daily until you add in the algae crew. If not algae will start to appear. cheers and all the best. do update us as much as possible... hahah...
Thanks all for your help, I am now dosing Brighty K and Step 1 daily, hoping there would not be any algae boom. Have set the lighting to be 3 hours then 2 hours break then 3 hours again.
i feel that the 2 hours break is not necessary... and to really play safe, dose ferts slightly less than recommended for now... i might be wrong. if i am, may all the shifus' please correct me. hahah...
Sorry to hijack, but if my fauna is already in, will adding ferts affect the fauna? I don't have CO2, but i feel the plants growth has stagnated. Seeing the above replies, i feel that i may be lacking the trace elements and potassium.
Adding ferts normally do not affect the fauna.Originally Posted by Forsalmon
Thanks Zac.
Is there any way I can increase the growth of my monte carlo? For example increasing the lighting hours? Is my lighting enough to sustain the growth or would I need more light? Please help...thanks a lot.
6hrs straight daily with co2 and brighty k and be patient...
Increase light also need to increase Co2 and nutrients... only if all 3 are matched and balanced then the plants will grow faster, otherwise if any one of them are either too much or too little, plant growth will be limited by the deficient factor and algae will gladly utilize the difference.
Hi all, just to update, the monte carlo seems to be growing well although slow, but none has melted so far, so that's good news for now. Waiting for it to slowly creep across to each other. Dosing Brighty K and Step 1 daily for 1.5 pumps each. Lighting from 1200 - 1800, CO2 from 1030 - 1630. Hope it can carpet soon. *fingers crossed*.
Hi all.
1st week update:
All my plants are doing well, can see new growth already and some of them are creeping towards each other. Dosing Brighty K and Step 1 daily with 1.5 pumps each. Lighting from 1200-1900, CO2 from 1030-1730.
Got some questions though, my this tank would be meant to keep and hopefully breed shrimps but with the recent weather, my tank can go up to 29 degrees which I think would be too hot for them.
Was thinking of getting a fan but I doubt it would be able to bring down the temperature by 4 degrees. Would a mini chiller do the job? Read on this forum that Aquatic Chamber got sell mini chiller at $120, it is effective enough for my tank? Would be going down tomorrow to get it if I can enough positive reviews by tomorrow morning.
Thanks to all the shifus for your help.
For the chiller, i have heard of it, but have never seen it work personally. Therefore i cannot advice you on this. maybe other bros here can help you. For your co2 timing, i feel that you are on-ing it way too early. Kind of like wasting co2 although you have a 3L cylinder. Try turn on 30 mins before lights on and turn off 30 mins before lights off.
ZacNg, I have a 1 feeter hooked to the tem chiller you're referring to. It can only bring down 2-3 degrees from ambience temperature, and it takes quite a bit of time to lower the temperature to 27 degrees in my case (more than an hour odd). Unless compelled by space constraints, if not just go straight for refrigerant chillers (like what I'm looking at doing now).
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ZacNg, I have a 1 feeter hooked to the tem chiller you're referring to. It can only bring down 2-3 degrees from ambience temperature, and it takes quite a bit of time to lower the temperature to 27 degrees in my case (more than an hour odd). Unless compelled by space constraints, if not just go straight for refrigerant chillers (like what I'm looking at doing now).
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Thanks for your help, it is both space and budget constraints that's why wanted to get that mini chiller, the hailea chiller smallest would cost me $300+ and artica would cost $800+, both are way above my budget.
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