2 Planted Tanks One Failing

[xXLeafeonXx]

Hi, i have a 10 gallon shrimp tank that i tried to make a planted tank. The tank is a few months old and has dwarf hair grass dwarf hc and a very bushy plant. It kinda got taken over by hair algae. So i decide to make a new tank today i got a 2 gallon hex tank and added dirt i added water and clipings from the big tank. I added some blue pearl shrimp, how can make sure this tank doesn't be a disaster like the other one?

 

[SO19Firearms]

Make sure you're adding enough NPK for the plants and that the light is sufficiently dim enough to not cause algae*.

IMO






*dim enough to not make the plants need any more CO2 than that which you are currently providing them.....

 

[xXLeafeonXx]

Whats NPK and the lights are pretty bright. Two 20 watt 50/50 coralife bulbs. I added a diy co2 system to try and balance the high lights and low co2.