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I also have a nano tank, very well planted and have the same if not more algae than plants... My tank is plastic so I made a hole in the back ( overflow ) and extended the outlet to the garden.. now I just do a 10min water change everyday.. I am not useing any fertilizers. but I do have a...

I know everybody seems unsupportive to your question.. I cant say I disagree with anyone.. I once placed some in my breeding tank now I have some everywhere and I am for ever removing some from one or the other tank.. But duckweed does seem to grow better in tank with a more open top, or my...

I wouldnt add any fertilisers to the tank. The Tanks looks stunning maybe you could replace the fake plant with a java fern..

If you can remove anything that's got the algae on it, it would help a lot. I also have BBA in my tanks, its like a virus. it grows everywhere. To get it under control I added SAE and CAE, SAE didnt touch the BBA but it doesnt spread anymore and I just remove the plant, and clean the...

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you have+- 1.5wpg. I would recomend a second tube. but doesnt need to be a biolux tube a fullspectrum tube ( also 20W ) would give you the needed edge to grow plants..

best idea ever.....

lights?? I know they are not very demanding but they do need full specrum lights as a min..

It one great lookin tank.. WOW it should be fine for a planted tank, the MH tubes might just needs to replaced with the 5000K. If you allready have 2x400W MH light just change the tubes.. you would only need a single 400W MH. There is not a lot of plant that wouldnt grow under that.. I have...

8 compact 55w twin light units, in a big tank like that is kinda high. Over 125G 2wpg is high, as long as you keep to fullspectrum or grow lights you should have very good plant growth in your tank. as for Kelvin, you should stick to 5500K - 6700K not lower ( unless its a grow light like...

you would be looking at 5500K - 6700K at about 60+ Watts for plants.. 28G tanks are normaly 3 foot long so 3x 25W 3foot tubes should give you 2.6wpg well thats the min I would use.

I have 1 betta male and 5 white cloud mountal middows and 2SAE in a 20 gallon and that looks overstock.

seantheprawn I would like to add that I have grown some plants under normal cool white (4100K) tubes, I used close to 6wpg on my 55g to get almost the same growth as I now have with 2.8wpg full spectrum lights. the temp of the light makes a huge difference in plant growth.. Hagen makes a...

Stunning!!!!!