hello all,
Let me start off by saying that the responces i have gotten from this forum have helped tremendously, and have allowed me to educate myself about aquatic plants and there needs, I have tried to read books on the subject and i have often come away with questions, I would not have planted this new tank with out the help i recieved on my smaller 40 gal (which by the way is comming along nicly).
ok, i have set up a 125 gal tank at my office here are specs:
125 gal
1400 gph rated overflow from here (http://www.lifereef.com/frame.html
8 gals of 1" bio balls in two 5 gal buckets
a mag 12 (for return pump, please note that to acheive the 1100 gph you need to pump the return line with 1.5" pvc, i split out of the 1.5 a foot up into two 1" pipes, I still have 2 throttle it down with ball valves, so i doubt if i am getting 1400 gph out of the life reef)
I have 2" of florite under 1"-1.5" of pee gravel.
i have 302 watts of light over the tank
please note that i did not plant the whole tank here is my planting layout
I have constructed a hood that has lights only over the planted areas.
I planted 50 jungle vals (bigones)
lugwigg
Bacopa amplexicaualis
Lysimachia nummularia
and i few other i cant remember right now
I filled and planted it tonight, here is what i dosed
KNO3 1 1/8 tsp 2x per week
fleets 12 drops 2x per week
cal 3 tsp 3x per week
mg (epsom) 2 tsp 3X per week
starting tommarrow i will dose 15 ml of plantex 6x per week
I dosed 60 ml of excell (as per instructions)
and i will dose 10 ml every other day
(i will be putting some water sprite and hopefully some waterlettuce in tommarrow)
I am also doing a fishless cycle useing aqua-ammoina
i am sitting slightly higher than 4 ppm
I was tired when i thought this through, (also my plants arrived today instead of mon like i have requested)
question:
do these doses look ok, keep in mind i would say that only about 60% of the tank is planted.
how will the fishless cycle affect the plants??? ( i think it would be fine because i am not dosing nitrate) would the ammonia take place of the nitrate?
also i counted 14 drops of water to 1 ml, is this close to a standard?? ( i droped it out 3 times and came up with 14 twice and 15 once) this would make doseing the fleets easer.
thanks a ton, i will post a pict of the new tank tommorow so you can see how it is planted
Let me start off by saying that the responces i have gotten from this forum have helped tremendously, and have allowed me to educate myself about aquatic plants and there needs, I have tried to read books on the subject and i have often come away with questions, I would not have planted this new tank with out the help i recieved on my smaller 40 gal (which by the way is comming along nicly).
ok, i have set up a 125 gal tank at my office here are specs:
125 gal
1400 gph rated overflow from here (http://www.lifereef.com/frame.html
8 gals of 1" bio balls in two 5 gal buckets
a mag 12 (for return pump, please note that to acheive the 1100 gph you need to pump the return line with 1.5" pvc, i split out of the 1.5 a foot up into two 1" pipes, I still have 2 throttle it down with ball valves, so i doubt if i am getting 1400 gph out of the life reef)
I have 2" of florite under 1"-1.5" of pee gravel.
i have 302 watts of light over the tank
please note that i did not plant the whole tank here is my planting layout
I have constructed a hood that has lights only over the planted areas.
I planted 50 jungle vals (bigones)
lugwigg
Bacopa amplexicaualis
Lysimachia nummularia
and i few other i cant remember right now
I filled and planted it tonight, here is what i dosed
KNO3 1 1/8 tsp 2x per week
fleets 12 drops 2x per week
cal 3 tsp 3x per week
mg (epsom) 2 tsp 3X per week
starting tommarrow i will dose 15 ml of plantex 6x per week
I dosed 60 ml of excell (as per instructions)
and i will dose 10 ml every other day
(i will be putting some water sprite and hopefully some waterlettuce in tommarrow)
I am also doing a fishless cycle useing aqua-ammoina
i am sitting slightly higher than 4 ppm
I was tired when i thought this through, (also my plants arrived today instead of mon like i have requested)
question:
do these doses look ok, keep in mind i would say that only about 60% of the tank is planted.
how will the fishless cycle affect the plants??? ( i think it would be fine because i am not dosing nitrate) would the ammonia take place of the nitrate?
also i counted 14 drops of water to 1 ml, is this close to a standard?? ( i droped it out 3 times and came up with 14 twice and 15 once) this would make doseing the fleets easer.
thanks a ton, i will post a pict of the new tank tommorow so you can see how it is planted
