Some updates, mostly for myself.
My first large water change (80-90%ish) using RO and dry salt macro solution, followed by remineralizing with Seachem Equilibrium. It’s not ideal, but I had it, and figured out I may as well use it up before buying some caso4. Chaos ensued. Crazy tank haze, like a new tank bacterial bloom x 10. The only think I can think of that could cause this is iron from equilibrium and phosphates from the macro mix bound together. I dosed both within an hour of the water change. I’ve never had a cloudy tank before, and cannot think of an alternative. It clears with some accurel but returns within a few hours. My LFS has some aqua vitro mineralize which is just ca/mg, so I’m going to use that until I get a proper remineralizer. Unless anyone has another theory.
In other news, I started daily dosing urea via PPS guidelines to try and replicate my Thrive+. This stuff is absolutely amazing. I’ve never seen plants respond like this. Sorry for the audio. I have to put on captivating toddler nonsense to get 30 minutes of peace for maintenance. I actually think it’s rather fitting for the scene.
New SS pipe work because glass sucks ass when it’s not cleaned every 48 hours. The jet outflow seems to be favorable to the Lily outflow for circulation in a long tank.
And some random glamor shots. Love this ludwigia white. I bought all the glandulosa I could get so I can start growing out some to share. Few stems if rotala macandra mini pink starting to get pretty as well.
The purple tint to the emersed ramosior Florida growing out of the tank is kinda beautiful. I’m letting it grow out enough to trim and regenerate. Starting to get some dreaded Ramosior leaf droop on some stems that are not bouncing back after propagating.
