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Decided I want to set up a planted tank, miss having a tank in my room ( My saltwater in the spare room now, too noisey for my room) so setting up a small tank 110 litres or so. Well i want it to be pretty heavily planted with a few smooth rocks and some driftwood. I got the tank, will use daltons aquatic mix and that propagating sand is it? And will be getting a cannister filter soon but I don't want to run CO2 never looked into it or anything so just want to leave it for now anyway. I got a 150watt metal halide here and i was wondering would that be to much without CO2? would be running a 6500k bulb. Cheers everyone

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There are three things which plants need for rapid growth:

Intense light

A source of carbon

Fertilizers

You will not get the desired result unless you add all three to a well planted and established tank.

It is a bit like cycling a tank

1 Set up the tank and plant it out with moderate light

2 Add a few fish to start cycling

3 When plants are established and the heavy root feeders are feeding start increasing light, fertilizers and CO2.

Plants like swords may take many weeks to establish and start feeding heavily so until that happens you are just feeding the algae.

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That would be Flourish Excel, not straight Flourish.

Flourish Excel in standard dosage will melt Riccia and Vallisneria.

Double dosing is sometimes used to combat Black Beard Algae, but can be hard on some fish, someone may be able to elaborate on which fish in particular.

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