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My new planted tank :)
It's Kyle :), Just been getting back into the hobby after a little break. Decided to go back to my roots with some Dwarf Rainbows and a simple 40gal tank. I am still using my old fluval 2.0 LED and a Stingray for up front. Tossed in some fluval stratum and some petrified rocks I had gotten from the auctions and another store.
This tank is only 15 days young :) I am having lots of success plant wise with this tank, I think part of the reason im doing so much better than myself years ago is higher light, shorter duration. Ive been running my lights at near full brightness with a short 6hr duration. Still dosing Thrive+ and Easy Iron slowly overtime just a pump every 4-5 days.
This is day 0 (OCT 10th) I had just turned on the lights and added plants. This tank was cycling in the dark for a couple weeks before I turned on the lights.
[url]https://i.imgur.com/f1dup2W.jpg[/url]
On day 10 I decided to do a trim, the plants had grown tons and the stem plants were almost at the surface. This is before the trim.
[url]https://i.imgur.com/Sn5PJDH.jpg[/url]
This is today (OCT 25th), the plants are starting to recover from their trimming. A lot of the S repens are almost ready to be retrimmed again as they're 2-3 layers tall. Its like this tank is running at super speed plant wise.
[url]https://i.imgur.com/uUnHIYs.jpg[/url]
The forum seems to not like image links, image embeds, or anything to do with images. I dumped some of the photos in the attachments if you wanted to look at em
This tank is only 15 days young :) I am having lots of success plant wise with this tank, I think part of the reason im doing so much better than myself years ago is higher light, shorter duration. Ive been running my lights at near full brightness with a short 6hr duration. Still dosing Thrive+ and Easy Iron slowly overtime just a pump every 4-5 days.
This is day 0 (OCT 10th) I had just turned on the lights and added plants. This tank was cycling in the dark for a couple weeks before I turned on the lights.
[url]https://i.imgur.com/f1dup2W.jpg[/url]
On day 10 I decided to do a trim, the plants had grown tons and the stem plants were almost at the surface. This is before the trim.
[url]https://i.imgur.com/Sn5PJDH.jpg[/url]
This is today (OCT 25th), the plants are starting to recover from their trimming. A lot of the S repens are almost ready to be retrimmed again as they're 2-3 layers tall. Its like this tank is running at super speed plant wise.
[url]https://i.imgur.com/uUnHIYs.jpg[/url]
The forum seems to not like image links, image embeds, or anything to do with images. I dumped some of the photos in the attachments if you wanted to look at em
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