JMHart's 45g FW Planted

Nope no need to wash the bottles. If you use a yeast that floats, you can use a tube and siphon the liquid out from underneath the yeast.

I could count my bubbles...but I don't. Drop checker says 20 ppm right now, but that's cause I just recharged yesterday...yeast is still warming up. By tomorrow should read about 30ppm and stay that way for 13 more days.


I use EI dosing: KNO3, K2SO4, KH2PO4, and Plantex CSM+B for traces...all from Rex Grigg. I may start dosing iron as well, haven't decided yet.
 
It's been a bit of journey...

Last March bought 3 stems of ludwigia repens(however, I didn't know what the name was until September). It didn't grow....didn't really die either, just kind of stagnated. I didn't get serious about a planted tank until September.

At that time I added diy co2 and upped the lighting. Been adding a few plants here and there(mostly freebies and trades). The only plants I've outright purchased are the amazon sword, limnophila aromatica, and the original ludwigia repens(which is doing great now). So, the 30g with blue gravel started getting serious in September, and now it's what you see here.



Edit: I also started added regular Flourish in September. Started EI dosing January 1st and it's made all the difference.
 
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So Jeffrey, I have a question pertaining to your awesome planted tanks. With your recipe for DIY co2 would it change at all if I used brewers yeast?

And I recently added new pics, no more click n view thank gosh.
 
FtwayneFish said:
So Jeffrey, I have a question pertaining to your awesome planted tanks. With your recipe for DIY co2 would it change at all if I used brewers yeast?

And I recently added new pics, no more click n view thank gosh.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I checked out your new pics. The Birchir tank is pretty cool.



The only thing that I can think would change with using brewer's yeast is that A) it would float, so to reuse the yeast in solution, you'd have to siphon off the liquid under the floating yeast and B) it might last 1 or 2 days shorter due to it's lower alcohol tolerance.

I've only used two types of yeast, bread and champagne. For me, bread yeast lasted about 8 days, whereas champagne yeast lasts about 14 days. My guess is brewer's yeast would be somewhere in between, closer to champagne, so my guess is 10-12 days.
 
Thankyou- and btw GREAT avatar.

Yea I have some BBA now. not really "mat-ish" more strand-ish. lol. It starts on the lower, older parts of the plants. never grows on the new parts. Im thinking a dose or two of excel?
 
I had a bit of BBA. I got my potassium back in check and the BBA stagnated. I trimmed the plants that had it and cleaned the rocks, and three weeks into the new aquarium, no BBA. Cross my fingers.

As everyone knows, generally algae is a sign of low co2 or extra nutrients, but sometimes it can be a sign of too little nutrients. BBA often appears when there is a deficiency of potassium in the tank.
 
ok, I will have to give a dose more of my flora pride its mainly potassium. and it did kinda pop up in between co2 refills. You really have to be on top of that once you start. I was thinking a 3-4 month run of it and let the plants sit. But I dont think that is possible.

its pretty gross.
 
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