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Been a busy few weeks away and having family looking after tank ? come back to a bit of an algae bloom. Almost back to normal. Glosso growing like crazy.... needed second trim. Finally added fish 13 neons and 10 Otto’s. 
Need to spend a bit of time at home to re adjust ferts?...... maybe next month
Trimed the tops out of the AR as well, they had grown out of the water. Glosso pearling really well. 
Good to have fish finally
Now to sort the water clarity ?

Been a busy few weeks away and having family looking after tank ? come back to a bit of an algae bloom. Almost back to normal. Glosso growing like crazy.... needed second trim. Finally added fish 13 neons and 10 Otto’s. 
Need to spend a bit of time at home to re adjust ferts?...... maybe next month
Trimed the tops out of the AR as well, they had grown out of the water. Glosso pearling really well. 
Good to have fish finally
Now to sort the water clarity ?

Nice!  I like the way the glosso is starting to creep over the rocks.

3 x 25% water changes and algae bloom under control ? so far this is a lot easier in a big tank. Also changed dosing to macro and micro every other day. Increased bubble count to 3 per second
New inhabitants are some red twisting worms...... if there were fish would be good food
A lot of pearling and pretty happy at the growth.
Added some filter media from my other tank to speed up the cylcling, will start to measure water parameters next week. Think I will trim the glosso this weekend..... closer to adding fish ?

3 x 25% water changes and algae bloom under control ? so far this is a lot easier in a big tank. Also changed dosing to macro and micro every other day. Increased bubble count to 3 per second
New inhabitants are some red twisting worms...... if there were fish would be good food
A lot of pearling and pretty happy at the growth.
Added some filter media from my other tank to speed up the cylcling, will start to measure water parameters next week. Think I will trim the glosso this weekend..... closer to adding fish ?

Week 3 - everything went smooth with family looking after tank. Had trouble for 2 days with co2 whilst away.... some how gas got turned off lol. Then had friends looking after. Algae bloom ?
50% water change, up co2 ferts same. Once onset control going to start cycling with food

Week 3 - everything went smooth with family looking after tank. Had trouble for 2 days with co2 whilst away.... some how gas got turned off lol. Then had friends looking after. Algae bloom ?
50% water change, up co2 ferts same. Once onset control going to start cycling with food

Week one - 50% water change added epsom salts. Increased dosing to daily. Small sign of white algae. Good colour on the AR roseafoila.......So far so good. Going away this week so someone else is looking after ?

Its been a while, but finally had the chance to redo my 200L fish tank and have converted it to a high tech set up. Moved all my other fish into another 200L that has been hanging in the garage.
Plan is to have a Iwagumi style with 40-50 Neon tetras and 10 Oto's.
Substrate - 5 kg JBL planting substrate 21 kg seachem fluorite black sand, random black rocks
Plants - Glossostigma Elatinoides, Dwarf hair grass and 3x Alternanthere Reineckii - roseafoila
Filter-  Aqua One 1200
Lighting - one 49w Aquq one plant glo
Co2- 2 bubbles per second
Ferts - NPK 20ml and seachem flourish 5 ml starting every 2 days
As per I get to excited to get going so after work I started, got it filled up and planted by about 2am. Lost a bit of contour in the process but I am happy with the result.
Will post up dates as it progresses and the troubles on the way to hopefully what I want :-)
 

Week one - 50% water change added epsom salts. Increased dosing to daily. Small sign of white algae. Good colour on the AR roseafoila.......So far so good. Going away this week so someone else is looking after ?

Its been a while, but finally had the chance to redo my 200L fish tank and have converted it to a high tech set up. Moved all my other fish into another 200L that has been hanging in the garage.
Plan is to have a Iwagumi style with 40-50 Neon tetras and 10 Oto's.
Substrate - 5 kg JBL planting substrate 21 kg seachem fluorite black sand, random black rocks
Plants - Glossostigma Elatinoides, Dwarf hair grass and 3x Alternanthere Reineckii - roseafoila
Filter-  Aqua One 1200
Lighting - one 49w Aquq one plant glo
Co2- 2 bubbles per second
Ferts - NPK 20ml and seachem flourish 5 ml starting every 2 days
As per I get to excited to get going so after work I started, got it filled up and planted by about 2am. Lost a bit of contour in the process but I am happy with the result.
Will post up dates as it progresses and the troubles on the way to hopefully what I want :-)