2FT High Light Tank

[Wahlin]

Hi,

This is my first high light tank, just play play. Comments are welcome.

Tank
600(L) by 230(W) by 300(H)
41 L or 11G

Soil
GEX Plant (Fine) 8Kg
Base Fertilizer Ocean Free Root Master and Root Booster

Water Parameter
PH, 6.5
GH, 180ml/g
KH, 80ml/g
NO2, 0
NO3, 200ml/g

Light
3 X T5HO24W = 72W (i.e. 6.5W/G) On time 7-11pm and 1-6pm

Filter
Atman HF-0600 (600L/H)

Fertilizer
CO2, 5L Pressurized 2 bps On Time 6.30am to 6pm
Easy Life ProFito 3ml weekly after WC
Easy Life EasyCarbon 1ml daily

Temp
23.7 (Day with aircon with fan) to 25.5 (night without aircon with fan)
25.4 (Day with aircon w/o fan) to 28.7 (night without aircon w/o fan)

Fish
23 rummy nose tetars
4 otos
4 ramshorn

Plant
Mainly HC
Some Japanese HG
Amazon Frogbit

Tank Life
Started 13 Mar 2009
Week 1 to 5 planted HC immerse
Week 5 flood tank and HC doing even better in submerse.
Week 7 planted Japanese HG
Week 8 start adding livestock

[madnugget]

beautiful HC you have there bro! my 1ft HC failed me when i flooded with water. partially of it melted =(

[feide]

wow, nice growth and certainly doesn't look like play play.
surprise that you are adding Easy Life EasyCarbon eventhough you are having pressurised CO2, any reason?
You tried keeping any shrimps? Found this source quoting Easy life ProFito is shrimp safe (but it actually contains copper). http://www.easylife.nl/english/index.html?id=40
I just set up a tank similar to yours, same tank dimensions and using HOF, also using HC as main plant, hope can get results like yours.

[newtank]

Great growth!! is that a hang on filter you are using?

[Wahlin]

beautiful HC you have there bro! my 1ft HC failed me when i flooded with water. partially of it melted =(

I guess the important elemetns are crazy light and lot of CO2.

[Wahlin]

wow, nice growth and certainly doesn't look like play play.
surprise that you are adding Easy Life EasyCarbon eventhough you are having pressurised CO2, any reason?
You tried keeping any shrimps? Found this source quoting Easy life ProFito is shrimp safe (but it actually contains copper). http://www.easylife.nl/english/index.html?id=40
I just set up a tank similar to yours, same tank dimensions and using HOF, also using HC as main plant, hope can get results like yours.

What I gather is EasyCarbon or Excel helps to manage algae problem. I have mostly GDA and GSA initially and EasyCarbon seem to help after dosing for 1 week.

[Wahlin]

Great growth!! is that a hang on filter you are using?

I was suprised too. What I heard from others are HC is not easy.

Yes it is Atman HF-600 hang on filter.

[Wahlin]

Here is the progress for the past 60+ days.

[newtank]

I was suprised too. What I heard from others are HC is not easy.

Yes it is Atman HF-600 hang on filter.

I guess you more or less shot down the impression that hang on filter causes Co2 loss....well maybe you are still losing CO2 this way, but obviously not enough to cause any problem.......I am thinking of using a hang on filter (with a surface skimmer function) as a surface skimmer, but worried about CO2 loss. Looks like a potential to me now.

[Wahlin]

I guess you more or less shot down the impression that hang on filter causes Co2 loss....well maybe you are still losing CO2 this way, but obviously not enough to cause any problem.......I am thinking of using a hang on filter (with a surface skimmer function) as a surface skimmer, but worried about CO2 loss. Looks like a potential to me now.

There will be CO2 loss for sure but surface agitation is also important for gas exchange of O2. Plants need CO2 and O2 as well.

[madnugget]

Here is the progress for the past 60+ days.

the last pic is amazingly green! i only seen such green-ness when mine are emersed.

[Wahlin]

the last pic is amazingly green! i only seen such green-ness when mine are emersed.

It is actually the camera. First 3 were taken with my nokia camera phone, next was from nikon point-and-shot and last was from nikon DSLR.

[feide]

is that a small pump on the left hand side? for better circulation and CO2 distribition?

[Morgan01]

your rocks are now embedded under the HC

[Cross]

Wow beautiful growth of hc! Inspiring me to attempt emersed as well

[Wahlin]

is that a small pump on the left hand side? for better circulation and CO2 distribition?

Yes it is a boyu SP-6001 220L/H pump or power head. I use it to do water circulation as well as CO2 distribution.

[Wahlin]

your rocks are now embedded under the HC

You are right, the rocks are too low and I got to trim the HC every week to prevent they from growing over the rocks.

[Wahlin]

Wow beautiful growth of hc! Inspiring me to attempt emersed as well

Dry start for HC is much easier than submerge. It took me about 6 months of reading before telling my mind to go ahead. Informations in AQ forum are very useful and it help me alot.

[Shadow]

you can lift the rock up by adding soil under it.

[Wahlin]

you can lift the rock up by adding soil under it.

Not sure whether I can do that since my rocks were buried deep into the soil.