angel12
04-27-2003, 10:29 AM
From my point of view Im fairly happy things are going on ok seeing as this is the first planted Tank I have set up (thanks to this fantastic board I have gained so much information and help)...
However just a couple of points I would like to ask your advice/input on
having just measured my Ammonia Nitrite and Nitrate levels last night .. the tank is stocked lightly with 10 Cardinal tetras... I got a strange reading
Ammonia 0 nitite 0.25 and Nitrate 0 ppm ... 90% of the plants seem to be doing fine and in some cases are growing fantasticaly.. others are showing a few leavs with the Yellow eye or tip ... these are just leaves not the whole plant....
I am at the moment just adding a liquid fertilizer and have water changed only 2 times each week ....mainly cause I wanted the tank to settle ......
Question I need answered is How do you Judge if things are going well If you planted with quatily plants most have come from Tropica.dk how long would it be before you started to see problems occur in your setup ..... One of the plants which i dont know the name of has grown over 2.5" in the 3 weeks and is now just under the surface ..what I mean is many people take photos of there setup only after x amount of time and everything looks great .. But when do the potential problems come along is there a time frame for ex say after 4 weeks any of the plants original nutirients are used up and then they start to rely on what they can sustain from the tank....
At the moment the only modifications I have made to the tank besides adding the liquid fert is to put reflectors on the Flourescent tubes 2x 30 w wich has made a bit of diff in that the light is being reflc straight down on to the plants
Light is 2 w per galll as it is a 40 Gallon tank but minus sub gives 2 w per galllon The liquid addative is Ferropol link is here
http://www.jbl.de/index_uk.html and I add as per recommended dose only when W/C are done
there is no co2 but the readings are as above there is Nitrite of 0.25 ppm have also just done the nitrate again and it reads 1.5 ppm
to my eyes it looks Fantastic (but im no expert) but I just want to reasure myself that I have got over the initail difficulties because if I have i wil be well chuffed
what about Malaysian Trumpets do u think these would be of benefit to my Tank ... its going be a discus tank in the future ... but i dont want to rush things until Im cofident that things are on the right line
if anyone could provide some advice input I would be extremly gratefull..
One last thing There is no sign of algea and I feed the fish once a day giving them just enough for them to eat is so very little sinks to the bottom it is truely a wonderfull sight seeing the shoal of cardinal swimming along the tank .. they have a game where they go the the swim to the output of the filter and freefall and then swimback
can someone explain how i identify and remove possible issues .....
kind of strange isnt it that just 2 plants are showing these small eyes nothing major but Ijust want to pre empt any problems or to reslove any issues that may arise before they come all at once ...
like people have mentioned everything looks fine but it is not till later that you find that out that problems have been there all along .. as a matter of intrest what should the nitrite reading be ? I mean I know it should be 0 but what gets me is there is 0 amonia the plants are taking that and very little nitrate again prob the plants but where is the nitrite coming from ...
However just a couple of points I would like to ask your advice/input on
having just measured my Ammonia Nitrite and Nitrate levels last night .. the tank is stocked lightly with 10 Cardinal tetras... I got a strange reading
Ammonia 0 nitite 0.25 and Nitrate 0 ppm ... 90% of the plants seem to be doing fine and in some cases are growing fantasticaly.. others are showing a few leavs with the Yellow eye or tip ... these are just leaves not the whole plant....
I am at the moment just adding a liquid fertilizer and have water changed only 2 times each week ....mainly cause I wanted the tank to settle ......
Question I need answered is How do you Judge if things are going well If you planted with quatily plants most have come from Tropica.dk how long would it be before you started to see problems occur in your setup ..... One of the plants which i dont know the name of has grown over 2.5" in the 3 weeks and is now just under the surface ..what I mean is many people take photos of there setup only after x amount of time and everything looks great .. But when do the potential problems come along is there a time frame for ex say after 4 weeks any of the plants original nutirients are used up and then they start to rely on what they can sustain from the tank....
At the moment the only modifications I have made to the tank besides adding the liquid fert is to put reflectors on the Flourescent tubes 2x 30 w wich has made a bit of diff in that the light is being reflc straight down on to the plants
Light is 2 w per galll as it is a 40 Gallon tank but minus sub gives 2 w per galllon The liquid addative is Ferropol link is here
http://www.jbl.de/index_uk.html and I add as per recommended dose only when W/C are done
there is no co2 but the readings are as above there is Nitrite of 0.25 ppm have also just done the nitrate again and it reads 1.5 ppm
to my eyes it looks Fantastic (but im no expert) but I just want to reasure myself that I have got over the initail difficulties because if I have i wil be well chuffed
what about Malaysian Trumpets do u think these would be of benefit to my Tank ... its going be a discus tank in the future ... but i dont want to rush things until Im cofident that things are on the right line
if anyone could provide some advice input I would be extremly gratefull..
One last thing There is no sign of algea and I feed the fish once a day giving them just enough for them to eat is so very little sinks to the bottom it is truely a wonderfull sight seeing the shoal of cardinal swimming along the tank .. they have a game where they go the the swim to the output of the filter and freefall and then swimback
can someone explain how i identify and remove possible issues .....
kind of strange isnt it that just 2 plants are showing these small eyes nothing major but Ijust want to pre empt any problems or to reslove any issues that may arise before they come all at once ...
like people have mentioned everything looks fine but it is not till later that you find that out that problems have been there all along .. as a matter of intrest what should the nitrite reading be ? I mean I know it should be 0 but what gets me is there is 0 amonia the plants are taking that and very little nitrate again prob the plants but where is the nitrite coming from ...