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This is pennywort and I have been watching it grow in the tank for a little bit now. I had ~3 little stubby stems, but I ended with one small piece that remained and has turned into this! 😁 I wanted to ask what the growth type means as far as light energy levels. The plant is growing compact, so I assume it can handle a bit less light. I don't plan to change it out, but just wanted to understand better what I'm looking at.
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What's the best method to figure out the lighting level/photo period for my new, deep, planted tank? I've just set up this 30g high. It's 24x24x12. It's low tech (ferts but not CO2). It has one of the new coop lights. The substrate has some flourite black in pouches, but mostly it's aquarium gravel capped with black diamond sand. Lots of root tabs. It's planted with Corkscrew and jungle val Dwarf saggitaria java ferns pearl weed hornwort Anubias nana petite One Crypt A narwhal and a Disney queen. The last tank I set up promptly became an algae farm, because the light was too high. It's taken a long time to get back under control. I would very much like to avoid that happening again. So, my questions are: What's the best method to figure out the lighting level/photo period? Should I start low and turn it up if no algae appears? Start high and turn it down until algae stops growing? Any guess about what a good starting point for 'high' and 'low' would be for a tank this deep? Thanks.
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Converted a large reef tank to FW and have opted to keep the lights for now rather than drop hundreds on more. Any recommended light settings with the spectrum I have?
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I was watching a replay of yesterday's livestream and heard cory talking about reducing the blue light in the fluval lights to reduce algae growth .I'm currently running a low tech, lightly planted 29 gallon with a finnex stingray 2 light that I've covered some white LEDs on to reduce intensity as I had that light on a previous identical setup that it provided too much light for on a 6hr photo period and am wondering if I should cover some of the blue LEDs also in that light to help with algae?
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I am new to keeping plants and I am growing so much algae. I could really use some help in adjusting the settings on my Fluval plant 3.0. The tank is 29 gallons and i am fertilizing with easy green and root tabs. The plants have been in for about a month now.
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Hello! Just got my new 29 gallon planted tank set up, have a few more plants to plant as well. I am still a little unsure about how much light my plants need. Should I have the light dimmer or bright? White light or full spectrum? How long everyday? thank you!! So many confusing things I’ve read online I hope there is just a simple way to do things!
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I think I understand some of the benefits of using light siestas and have seen a lot of the programming complexity people get into. I have a Finnex Stingray for my 10 gallon as well as an outlet timer. What methodology do you use (and what variables play into) determining an appropriate on/off cycle? -
My red-tail botia loach is so shy. We rarely get to see her at all. We call her "Peek-a-Boo", because she just very rarely pokes her little head out to say "Hi." (And just in case someone doesn't know our story, a not-local LFS sold 2 botias to my husband saying they were dwarf chain loaches. My husband didn't know any better and thought he could trust them. We lost one in a jumping accident just a week or so after bringing them home. We were completely unprepared for them. I did research, but there's not a lot out there. Everything I read just repeats the other sites I read. We know she needs to be in a group, but we don't have a tank big enough for them. So we keep her singly, and try to give her a good quality of life.) I just recently got a new light for Peek-a-Boo's tank, as we were adding the baker's dozen of Green Tiger Barbs and I really wanted to see those colors in the 20-gallon long. This light has setting for white, blue and white/blue combos, as well as varying degrees within each color. I had just noticed some algae growing on my sponge filters one evening, so I lowered the lighting down to about 30% strength. (I'd planned to hit the algae with Easy Carbon over the weekend.) The next morning when the timer turned the light on, I saw Peek-a-Boo out in the tank. She seems to really love the new spider wood in the tank. What was so AWESOME though was that for the next hour or so, I got to watch her swim around and loosely school with the barbs. It was amazing!!! She's so agile and can hover in one place with tiny little fluttery movements of her fins. She didn't chase anybody but swam around and did her own thing. She even stayed out when I fed them!!! This has been such a surprise to me! I had NO idea that just by dimming the lights, I could start enjoying this beautiful fish. So now, for several hours each day, I keep the lights at a low setting and each day she comes out and swims and plays like she's finally loving the tank and loving her life. I am so, so happy about that. It has been such a beautiful surprise.
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