i just spent the better part of 5 hours swapping all my plants and filter from my 10g into my 40g. the 10g was so overgrown i dont know how the fish had room to swim.
Now im going from 26watts over 10g to 72watts over 40g. i had DIY c02 before. ive always dosed excel but thinking of skipping that now with 3x the dosage.
my questions are:
1. Can i still run diy C02 on a 40g? will i need to use the 2 bottle method? Will stopping the c02 for a week or so cause some sort of CRAZY algae bloom? i removed all of my staghorn and clado (both of which were just starting) before i transferred the plants.
2. Is my lighting still sufficient or will losing the 0.5ish WPG be bad for my plants?
3. Anything particularly different about having a larger planted tank vs a tiny one?
Heres some pics of the transformation once again its hard to believe ALL of these plants (did not remove any except 5-10 algae ridden leaves) were once in my 10g
EDIT: the FROM pictures are not from today, just showing what they were like.
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Now im going from 26watts over 10g to 72watts over 40g. i had DIY c02 before. ive always dosed excel but thinking of skipping that now with 3x the dosage.
my questions are:
1. Can i still run diy C02 on a 40g? will i need to use the 2 bottle method? Will stopping the c02 for a week or so cause some sort of CRAZY algae bloom? i removed all of my staghorn and clado (both of which were just starting) before i transferred the plants.
2. Is my lighting still sufficient or will losing the 0.5ish WPG be bad for my plants?
3. Anything particularly different about having a larger planted tank vs a tiny one?
Heres some pics of the transformation once again its hard to believe ALL of these plants (did not remove any except 5-10 algae ridden leaves) were once in my 10g
EDIT: the FROM pictures are not from today, just showing what they were like.
FROM:
TO: