Bit of an update, been battling algae for the last few weeks :an!gry - stopped dosing ferts and replaced the bulbs in my lights and it is finally dying back :happy1:
Not sure when I will start dosing ferts again as it hasn't seemed to have any negative impact on the plants yet, still early days though I guess. I will go with the EI dosing method when I do though.
Just pulled out all of the fast growing plants like ambulia and rotala as I got sick of trimming these twice weekly, water became so dirty I put in an extra internal filter to help clean it up.
I will definitely be going to get some MH lights soon though as the dwarf sag isn't really spreading much, it's just growing up towards the lights, I am also in the process of deciding whether to set up sump filtration as the 2 canister filters I am running just don't seem to be cutting it mechanical filtration wise. I think I also need to buy some wavemakers to up the flow around some dead areas of the tank.
I seemed to have lost a few neons and 1 Apistogramma Trifasciata somewhere along the way which sucks, lucky I have quite a good collection of apistos to replace them with now thanks to Danval. I will also be swapping the pair of Trifasciata that are in there for the pair of Apistogramma Cockatoos that I have been growing out in another tank so the tri's have a chance to breed in their own tank.
Here's a new pic of the latest layout, been changed a couple of times in the last few days as I just can't seem to figure out what is missing;
Sorry once again for the crap quality photo, I really need to learn how to take better quality ones!