My new 4ft planted discus tank

[VictorTQT]

Hi all bro. I have come back to the planted discus tank again after a busy time. Here is my new setup with sandy substrate. To boost the plants growing, I used the Root tab Grower that I bought from c328. After setting up for 1-2 weeks, I got the brown algae attacking, but with increasing light and dosing Excel, now the brown algae has disappeared.

My tank is 4x1.5x1.5 ft and I am using Eheim 2217 with Biohome plus and Eheim 2071 with Eheim substrate as filter. Light is T5 HO 4x54W and is on for 8 hour per day. Discus are fed on tetrabits and beefheart daily. To clean the excess food, a crowd team of cories with do the job. I also keeping two pcs of Ghost Knight fish which like to eat beefheart a lot. They even go to eat food from my hand, which I was surprised because they were know as shy fish. And here is my tank:

[azman_haron]

Here is my new setup with sandy substrate. To boost the plants growing, I used the Root tab Grower that I bought from c328.

I am thinking of doing something with sandy substrate, which has no nutrients.... how good are root tabs? How often do you need to add them?

[Goalkeeper]

Very nice discus...

[happydanio123]

Yes! Very colourful indeed

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[VictorTQT]

Thank you all for enjoying my tank. Here is another view of my tank with weaker LED light:

[LaVsy]

this is tempting
my BB tank discus getting abit boring.

but i have problem starting sandy substrate, not too sure which plant can adapt.

have been using aquasoil thruout my past 2 years.

[azman_haron]

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but i have problem starting sandy substrate, not too sure which plant can adapt.
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This is a tank from a US forum. All sand substrate, with no root tabs....only liquid ferts. Yet the hair grass is thriving getting its nutrients from the water column



Will LushGrow be enough?

Lovely tank!!

PS: which LFS in the east can I get LushGrow from? I havent seen it lately