James125 Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 I have just recently purchased a new tank, its a aqua one Hr 1280 bullet tank, being approx 360l' I am wanting advice as to what else i can do to the tank to improve what i have already done etc, dont have much experience doing planted tanks so help would be more than appreciated. Tank at the moment: Filteration: 2x cf1000's Lighting: 1x 30w 6500k 2x 30w 6800k bulbs are just t8's standard light hood. Plants in there currently are 6x amazon swords, narrow leaf fern, anubias nana, marble queen sword?, also wanting to get things like windowlov, dwarf sag, mosses etc. Subtrate is just daltons substrate, and using JBL root fertilizer balls, what else can i do to the tank to have better plant growth etc with what i have at the moment etc. or is there anything i shouldnt be doing, this is my first tank that im trying to properly plant, so any help would be much appreciated. Would using flourish comprehensive help?, lights are on 6 hours a day at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 How high is the tank and what is the growth like on your swords? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James125 Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 It is 480 tall, they seem to be doing ok so far they are growing new leaves quite consistently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 Swords are heavy root feeders so you will need to keep the jbl balls going as the plants grow. The rest of the plants you have should be fine however you might find the dwarf sag 'reaches' for the light. Reaches means it grows up and becomes quite straggly trying to get the light it needs. Your lights may be strong enough though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James125 Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 Ok cheers for that info!, do you think the flourish comprehensive will help?, if so how would you dose to suit this tank?, cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 If the plants start to get holes in the leaves then comprehensive will definitely help. Its up to you really if you want to dose it apart from that although it will add extra minerals to the water column. Just dose at the rate shown on the bottle which is done, from memory - twice weekly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James125 Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 Cool cheers for that info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 You may want to look into injecting some form of co2 if your going to be adding ferts to the water column as you may start getting algae issues with the high abundance of ferts that the plants can't all use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James125 Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 Ok, trying to stay away from the c02, hence why i wanted lowtech, if i was to look at c02, what would you reccomend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James125 Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 [quoteGodly3vil You may want to look into injecting some form of co2 if your going to be adding ferts to the water column as you may start getting algae issues with the high abundance of ferts that the plants can't all use. ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 Plants need the right ratio of light carbon (from CO2 or excell) and ferts. There is no point in adding a lot more of any one component. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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