Warning About Holidays

[SuperColey1]

Although I am tearing this scape down in the next few days I though Id show you what happened to my tank while I was on holiday.

This was the tank on 22nd August.

I then switched off the CO2. Obviously stopped dosing for the duration of my holiday. The auto feeder was set to every 24 hours and the 55W switched off.

Effectively from 22nd August to present this tank has had 12 hours of 0.6WPG per day with fish waste and food as the only nutrients!!

This is what it is like now:

I can only therefore recommend that if you are planning a rescape then book a holiday just before you plan. If you are keeping your scape as it is then don't ever take a holiday. lol

On another note its amazing how these plants have grown in such little light and nutrients especially when they had been used to 2.5WPG with pressurised CO2 and full EI dosing.

Garuf - You asked if Rotala Rotundifolia, Hygro Poly Rosanervig and Ludwigia Repens are fast growers............HPR is the plant on the far left (the mass of green), RR is the plant in the centre behind the 'tree trunk' (and over masses of the surface, LR is theplant behind the 'slate mountain' slightly hidden by the masses of lilys that have grown.

Andy

 

[reggieschuey]

the after shots, its actually ain't too bad andy. just needs a few trimmings to take away the brown foliage, and it should be growing nicely in no time, I have seen alot worst.

 

[SuperColey1]

The pics don't show up the mess so much. lol

I don't know what you mean by brown foliage and growing nicely in no time?? The plants are ones that naturally go pink/peachy when they get closer to the lights and they are growing fine now. In fact they look quite radiant and lush with no algae visible to my eye.

The thread was actually meant to mean : I can't believe how well its done with no additives and reduced lighting. I expected itto be an algae magnet with the huge adjustment from ful EI - 2.5WPG to Nothing at all with 0.6WPG

The whole lots being ripped out this week anyway so won't be doing any trimming. Just trimming off some bits and sending it to Garuf to use in his tank.

Andy

 

[garuf]

The pics don't show up the mess so much. lol

I don't know what you mean by brown foliage and growing nicely in no time?? The plants are ones that naturally go pink/peachy when they get closer to the lights and they are growing fine now. In fact they look quite radiant and lush with no algae visible to my eye.

The thread was actually meant to mean : I can't believe how well its done with no additives and reduced lighting. I expected itto be an algae magnet with the huge adjustment from ful EI - 2.5WPG to Nothing at all with 0.6WPG

The whole lots being ripped out this week anyway so won't be doing any trimming. Just trimming off some bits and sending it to DevUK to use in his tank.

Andy

ps. its garuf (gareth) and not dev uk

 

[SuperColey1]

Getting people mixed up. lol

Andy

 

[garuf]

Getting people mixed up. lol

Andy

too many of us with similar names
I'll make sure I don't go on holiday, just think it could be worse you could have come back to an algal jungle

 

[SuperColey1]

No the exact opposite. Almost free of algae now.

Andy

 

[garuf]

REALLY?!
so surely the motto of the story should be go on holiday come back to a messy but algae free tank?

 

[SuperColey1]

I think the moral of the story is probably that if you don't prune so much and don't disturb the substrate as much then you give the ferts, CO2 and plants a chance to win.

Andy