Couple Of Plant Questions!

[Westwood]

Hi all, I have had a planted tank for a while now. I'm hoping to go high tech soon! My tank is a Lido 120l.

I have 2 x 24w T5 Juwel Lamps, at the moment no co2 and don't dose any fertiliser.

I am getting some hair algae on my plant leafs, which I put down to low Co2 and lack of nutrients?

I am going to get a Nutrafin yeast-based CO2 unit for the time being until I can afford and get around to a better system, do people find them affective?

I also am going to start dosing liquid feed, I have been told Tropica Plant Nutrition Plus is a good product to use, but I can't find any online?

Thanks for your time!
Any other advice would be appreciated!

Westwood

 

[stu40]

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editops, when they've got stock back in

 

[RadaR]

Dont bother with the DIY yeast CO2.
Instead, cram in lots of plants and floating plants, dose Easycarbo everyday as well as Tropica Plant Nutrition+ everyday.
Weekly water changes.
Should sort you until you get pressurized. You might find that you dont need to.
Manual removal of algae is always advised.

 

[Westwood]

Dont bother with the DIY yeast CO2.
Instead, cram in lots of plants and floating plants, dose Easycarbo everyday as well as Tropica Plant Nutrition+ everyday.
Weekly water changes.
Should sort you until you get pressurized. You might find that you dont need to.
Manual removal of algae is always advised.

Ok thanks for the advice! I will got hold of those products ASAP.
I have the hair algae on the leaves of plants, and some leaves are quite delicate, this plant mainly.
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Am I missing a trick getting it off or is it just a case of being careful? Also the tips of the leaves are slightly brown is this just due to little nutrition?

Thanks Again!

Westwood

 

[RadaR]

The easycarbo will help a bit in killing the algae but lots of folk use a toothbrush and twirl it to pull off the hair algae. Brown tips sounds like lack if nutrition

 

[Westwood]

The easycarbo will help a bit in killing the algae but lots of folk use a toothbrush and twirl it to pull off the hair algae. Brown tips sounds like lack if nutrition

Great, thanks for the help!

Westwood