Advice on lighting requirement for newly started 3ft panted tank

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Ram wrote:I'm planning to set up diy CO2 for my tank but unsure of correct dosing. also shall I put PLL of 28w along with 2xts (14 w). would it create any imbalance and algae with my set up. im already facing brown algae, but I suppose it is a new tank syndrome. please advice me about my lighting as I have already spent close to 2000/- on plants and some of them died and others like HC are growing very slow.
DIY co2 for such a large tank would be difficult to maintain.

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We can do it but it will require 4 to 5 2l bottles of diy co2
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You can do pressurised one

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Go for Liquid or Pressurized CO2 in place of DIY. It is not effective in big aquariums.
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SCORPIO wrote:Go for Liquid or Pressurized CO2 in place of DIY. It is not effective in big aquariums.
Liquid carb with vals???


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HC wont grow without very high light, last year i did a lot of experiments on Growing HC, it grows slowly and if parameters (Co2, Light and fetrz) are not good, its leaves starts turning Yellow and then entire plant vanishes and decays.

as per my Experiment, if you do a daily 10% water change then very less CO2 is required for HC (Glut/Excel works fine), however it requires very bright light.
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Re: Advice on lighting requirement for newly started 3ft panted tank

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Hi!
Now I replaced 20w CFL with 36W PLL. the present config is 2 X 14w T5 & 1 X 36W PLL = 64W. is it sufficient for my aqua.. I've also started dosing Glut (Cidex) 2ml thrice a week and setting up DIY CO2. Should I do anything else for my p[lants to grow? Im also changing 30% water twice weekly with RO water.
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What is the Cidex solution %. It thought it will around 2% solution and 2ml is not enough for your tank.
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Vals won't grow well with glut.

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I don't know the % as I collected if from our hospital. It was big can of cidex.
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