Journal My experimental jungle

[GreggZ]

Dosing more means fat plants. They also grow faster however.....

Algae seems to have gone away.

You must know that inquiring minds want to know more details.

What were you dosing? And how much did you raise it? Any idea of water column values?

And also tank is looking great. Healthy colorful plants you can't get much better than that.

 

[plantnoobdude]

What were you dosing? And how much did you raise it? Any idea of water column values?

I was dosing 0.75-1N from miracle gro. (Very very close to marschners).

Then increased to 2 N

Ca 5
Mg 2

Any idea of water column values?

Normally I don't see any TDs rise during the week, but while double dosing I noticed my TDs went up by 5ppm and that my rotala HRA went a dark orange rather than blood red. So I would say that NO3 increased a bit, but I have no concrete numbers.

And also tank is looking great. Healthy colorful plants you can't get much better than that.

Still more to go that ammannia pedicellata will grow much bigger under good conditions.

 

[Freshflora]

Those are some damn happy plants! So you’re dosing ammonia and urea into the water column from the miracle gro right?

 

[plantnoobdude]

Those are some damn happy plants! So you’re dosing ammonia and urea into the water column from the miracle gro right?

Thanks! Yep, dosing mainly urea I think in collumn with inert substrate. However the erios are in soil, while they do grow in sand, they don't show their best growth without atleast some nutrients in the substrate.

 

[plantnoobdude]

Is this allowed? Here's my other tank which is low tech.

An update for the high-tech aswell.


Back into my collectoritis mode. 20 species and counting...

 

[Immortal1]

Back into my collectoritis mode. 20 species and counting...

20 species? So, your just starting out?

LOL, j/k - tanks look great.

 

[plantnoobdude]

20 species? So, your just starting out?

LOL, j/k - tanks look great.

It's a small tank my next few wish list plants are:
Syngonanthus vichada
Rotala sahyadrica
Bg2011
Rotala ramosior Florida
Erio Goias
Hygro chai
Rotala red cross

I'd love to turn the tank into a more low maintenance, slow growing rare plant tank, but let's face it, that's not happening any time soon....

 

[KarateQuat]

It's a small tank my next few wish list plants are:
Syngonanthus vichada
Rotala sahyadrica
Bg2011
Rotala ramosior Florida
Erio Goias
Hygro chai
Rotala red cross

I'd love to turn the tank into a more low maintenance, slow growing rare plant tank, but let's face it, that's not happening any time soon....

you know whos got all those rares? WINSTON

 

[plantnoobdude]

you know whos got all those rares? WINSTON

Churchill?

I know who you're referring too, however I am living in the UK. So I need to import these plants. I may be able to get a few off that list from friends.

 

[Art]

So I hope you're going to submit that high-tech one to our GSAC contest???

 

[plantnoobdude]

So I hope you're going to submit that high-tech one to our GSAC contest???

Maybe it's just not where I want it to be in terms of plant health.

 

[Art]

I understand. The GSAC isn't a hard-core contest like the IAPLC. It's a friendly and a chance to get feedback from four great experts. Don't worry about perfection, enter it and get the valuable feedback.

 

[plantnoobdude]

 

[Art]

Coming along beautifully!

Your Rotala is showing the aerial roots that have pestered me many, many times.

 

[plantnoobdude]

last pics before new dosing scheme

 

[Immortal1]

Great looking tank shot!

 

[plantnoobdude]

Started dosing my masterline golden clone.
Thinking about whipping up some plant groups and sorting out the left side.

 

[plantnoobdude]

Some plants decided to stunt in response to high nutrients....

However I'm very pleased that my buce has recovered and is putting out new clean leaves.

I recon a really strict maintenance regime I what the tank needs now.

 

[plantnoobdude]

Masterline dosing not doing too shabby..

 

[BigWave]

This is looking really nice. Quite a bit of growth for a few weeks. BTW chech your messages...