Should I Get This Plant Pack?

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Jallen

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My tank specs are in my signature.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/25-Live-Aquatic-Aqua...id=p3911.c0.m14

Obviously that's a fair amount of plants...

Will adding them sap all my nutrients and CO2?
I can easily add fish to increase nitrates... and add ferts for everything else.
But what about CO2? What I do right now is keep my lights on for 9 hours with the air pump off, then when the lights go out I turn on the airation until I go to bed to oxygenate the water as much as possible for the night, where the plants will start emitting CO2 and taking in oxygen...

If I continued to do that with my setup with all the plants from that pack + the ones that are in my tank at the moment, would I have any problems? Would you advise it?

I have 0.8wpg, no CO2 injection, dosing plantamin as the bottle says.

Thanks.
 
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more nutrients & CO2 will be needed, hoiwever, because it is a low tech tank you dont need to worry about CO2 as you dont inject it! Just continue with the plantamin, if you are dosing to the instructions then there should be enough nutrients to supply the extra plants.
Plants are always respiring so therefore are always taking in O2 & releasing CO2 and the amount they do take in/ release is minimal, and in fact the O2 they put in during the day will be enough to supply the respiration needs throughout the night.
 
more nutrients & CO2 will be needed, hoiwever, because it is a low tech tank you dont need to worry about CO2 as you dont inject it! Just continue with the plantamin, if you are dosing to the instructions then there should be enough nutrients to supply the extra plants.
Plants are always respiring so therefore are always taking in O2 & releasing CO2 and the amount they do take in/ release is minimal, and in fact the O2 they put in during the day will be enough to supply the respiration needs throughout the night.
Ah ok thanks :D
I'll just prune them like normal, keep dosing plantamin, and continue with my normal maintenance and hopefully it will all be fine.

I ordered the plants, they have already been posted :)
 

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