75 gallon Planted Office Tank Journal
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Make sure you check previous pages, you may have missed some plant pics.
Here is the layout I used. Too late to change anything, as I am not digging around in the soil for awhile, but if you want to offer some constructive criticism or praise, I am now taking comments.
Grey = rock
Red = red or red-ish plant
Green = Green plant
Brown = driftwood
Here is the layout I used. Too late to change anything, as I am not digging around in the soil for awhile, but if you want to offer some constructive criticism or praise, I am now taking comments.
Grey = rock
Red = red or red-ish plant
Green = Green plant
Brown = driftwood
There are a ton of posts in my tank journal thread (where you are posting) that discuss my options for co2, but two pages prior to this page, I talk about the EXT5000 from aquariumplants.com that I just got, and there are a bunch of pictures too. That replaced a Red Sea 500.
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Here are some detail shots after planting. Yes, there is alot of "stuff" floating around in the water. That is why the photos are dark and grainy looking. This is also settle out, as I am sure you are aware. I dont really know when the water will be pretty again, but probably tomorrow?
These are 10 mins after planting, click to make really big:
I think this all looks good, but this is my first major planted tank and my first major planting. So let me know if I am doing something dumb.
Going to get some energy, this made me tired.
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These are 10 mins after planting, click to make really big:
I think this all looks good, but this is my first major planted tank and my first major planting. So let me know if I am doing something dumb.
Going to get some energy, this made me tired.
:coffee2:
Looks good. Give it a few weeks and I'll bet it's going to look real sharp. Keep posting pics. it's fun watching things grow out.
Since I changed the co2 reactor from the RS500 to the EXT5000 I noticed that when I shut off the co2 at night and come in the next morning (2 mornings in a row), the color has not changed from Green to Blue, as it did with my previous setups. My only guess is that the EXT5000 so efficiently dissolves co2 into the water, and since i am doing very little surface agitation, that most of the co2 I inject throughout the day stays disolved in the water over night. I dont know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, since I then turn on the co2 in the morning again, will be levels keep stacking up on the previous day until I have way too much co2?
I also thought I might need to change the indicator solution in my drop checker, but I looked up some older posts, and it seems I should only have to change this once a month, and it's only been like a week. Post here.
Any thoughts?
I also thought I might need to change the indicator solution in my drop checker, but I looked up some older posts, and it seems I should only have to change this once a month, and it's only been like a week. Post here.
Any thoughts?
Thank you so much.
I think I will take a FTS per day, and then after maybe 15 days, posts them all in one large post so we all can see how fast (or slow) they grow, change, die, etc.
