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Oddball and African riverine fish keeper
When finances were rather stretched a few months ago, I was not able to buy a replacement 500g Dennerle bottle for my 300 kit, or buy the Dennerle range of ferts (the regular or 2/4-weekly ones. I was recommended the Easylife Easycarbo and Prolito products instead, but I'm now running low on each...
Presumeably it would be more economical (or more beneficial to plants) to get my dennerle CO[sub]2[/sub] kit up and running again after a good clean of the ladder, rather than buy Easycarbo again? Is ~£23 an outragous price to pay for a new disposable bottle (price at my LFS)?
Is the Easylife Profito a comprehensive liquid fert, or do my plants need another fert product to suplement it? Does anyone know of any good deals for Profito or any other suggested fert?
I have to confess that my plant choices were rather poor for my Rio240 in hindsight, considering the fish in there need cool temps (22C) and moderate current (Juwel internal 1000lph filter plus APS 2000EF), I really should have thought things through a lot better when starting out last spring and stuck to the likes of Java Fern, Anubias and alike.
EditThe surviving plants in there are...
Echinodorus 'Rosé' (now very bushy and ~40cm tall in places)
Cambomba (after running rampant last year, I just about managed to save the whole lot from dying and its now growing well again)
Microsorum pteropus (only a small bit)
Microsorum pteropus "dwarf"
Alternanthera reineckii ''roseafolia''?
Phyllanthus Fluitans (which I'm really struggling to keep as a single layer on the water surface and was shocked by the amount of "rubbish" inbetween the roots when I moved it at weekend, while trying to use it as a natural nitrate remover from my "vulture"-like Lionhead Cichlid and Barilius hukaungensis youngsters)
Presumeably it would be more economical (or more beneficial to plants) to get my dennerle CO[sub]2[/sub] kit up and running again after a good clean of the ladder, rather than buy Easycarbo again? Is ~£23 an outragous price to pay for a new disposable bottle (price at my LFS)?
Is the Easylife Profito a comprehensive liquid fert, or do my plants need another fert product to suplement it? Does anyone know of any good deals for Profito or any other suggested fert?
I have to confess that my plant choices were rather poor for my Rio240 in hindsight, considering the fish in there need cool temps (22C) and moderate current (Juwel internal 1000lph filter plus APS 2000EF), I really should have thought things through a lot better when starting out last spring and stuck to the likes of Java Fern, Anubias and alike.
EditThe surviving plants in there are...
Echinodorus 'Rosé' (now very bushy and ~40cm tall in places)
Cambomba (after running rampant last year, I just about managed to save the whole lot from dying and its now growing well again)
Microsorum pteropus (only a small bit)
Microsorum pteropus "dwarf"
Alternanthera reineckii ''roseafolia''?
Phyllanthus Fluitans (which I'm really struggling to keep as a single layer on the water surface and was shocked by the amount of "rubbish" inbetween the roots when I moved it at weekend, while trying to use it as a natural nitrate remover from my "vulture"-like Lionhead Cichlid and Barilius hukaungensis youngsters)
