I set up a tank Dec 9th. Juwel rio 180. Stocking as sig. I donāt want to go high tech, so plants are a large leaved Amazon sword and a couple of smaller ones. A bunch of dwarf sag, a crypt, anubias and a red leafed plant. Apart from the big amazon, all these came from my old tank/other peopleās tanks. I recently got amazon frogbit to float too. The 2 Iāve bought were that Dutch brand, I forget the name. Substrate is unipac fine sand, which is more like fine gravel. Iāve used clay balls/fertiliser capsules where the plantsā roots are.
The lighting is 2 35w t5s on from 4-10 each day. I use flourish once a week, 3ml.
Several of the plants have dead stuff, but all apart from the small amazons also show signs of growth, so Iām hoping thatās just them needing time to settle in? The frogbit is less than a week in and detached leaves and roots are clogging the filter
Iām starting to see some algae too, so hoping to get on top of that before it gets on top of me.
All suggestions very welcome, thanks Hereās some pics
The lighting is 2 35w t5s on from 4-10 each day. I use flourish once a week, 3ml.
Several of the plants have dead stuff, but all apart from the small amazons also show signs of growth, so Iām hoping thatās just them needing time to settle in? The frogbit is less than a week in and detached leaves and roots are clogging the filter
Iām starting to see some algae too, so hoping to get on top of that before it gets on top of me.
All suggestions very welcome, thanks Hereās some pics
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