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MrJG
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Going to get a little break from the heat this week so I spent a few hours this weekend moving things around to make room for a few more crypt sp and a couple of small Anubias finishing touches.
I’d been getting a little cyano buildup on the sand top of the far right so I took out some of the larger stones that may have been folding the flow back into the glass there. It seems that it opened up a better flow all the way around the back of the wood, so hopefully that’s a win. Im still dosing on the lean side but trying to make sure I maintain at least 10ppm nitrates throughout the week.
While I was doing that I decided to siphon out the escaped soil at the front, add a few more small stones/pebbles to hopefully block the path. Then I added some fresh sand trying to build up some of the problem areas.
Once this next batch of plants come in I’m putting it on cruise control for a while. I’ve left a little room to start propagating crypt nurii at the front since I have a mother plant already going. It still looks a little sparse from the front but it is packed with plants behind the wood. Crypt spirialis tiger is finally getting taller again and about to start peeking out.
Still slowly removing the bba explosion but taking it slow so I don’t create more organics from dying algae
I’d been getting a little cyano buildup on the sand top of the far right so I took out some of the larger stones that may have been folding the flow back into the glass there. It seems that it opened up a better flow all the way around the back of the wood, so hopefully that’s a win. Im still dosing on the lean side but trying to make sure I maintain at least 10ppm nitrates throughout the week.
While I was doing that I decided to siphon out the escaped soil at the front, add a few more small stones/pebbles to hopefully block the path. Then I added some fresh sand trying to build up some of the problem areas.
Once this next batch of plants come in I’m putting it on cruise control for a while. I’ve left a little room to start propagating crypt nurii at the front since I have a mother plant already going. It still looks a little sparse from the front but it is packed with plants behind the wood. Crypt spirialis tiger is finally getting taller again and about to start peeking out.
Still slowly removing the bba explosion but taking it slow so I don’t create more organics from dying algae
