Well it did not help at all to clean out the gooey brown stuff, the KH value went down anyway.
New idea, As we have extremly low KH the lowering will be more serious than if it were higher.
I have now increased the KH level and hopefully the lowering will not be as notable and not alter the CO2 level as much.
I’m starting to get a bit tired of the current layout, i will have to think about doing a major rescape.
For a while I have had some problems with sinking KH value, this is affecting the CO2 level as the pH is kept the same.
Today i have “moved the lawn” and sucked all the gooey brown stuff out of it, I also flushed through the filter which had almost an inch of the same stuff on the bottom. I wonder if this could have affected my KH.
The KH is normally not fluctuating too much, of course the plants cold use some but it should be close to nothing especially as the CO2 level is kept rich.
The fluorescents have probably become a bit more whitish or I have gotten used to them, they are quite similar in colour to the Ocean white ones, but there could still be a lot of difference for the plants, anyone seen the spectra for the Aquarelle T5?
I have just managed to get hold of some Philips Aquarelle in T5 style, quite a difference to the old setup, the T5 Aquarelle seems a lot more blueish than the T8.
The photos shows the old setup (2pcs Aquamedic ocean white 10000K, 1pcs Aquamedic planta, 1pcs Narva Nature superb) and the new one with 4pcs of Aquarelle.
The photos are taken with the exact same settings (all manual) and is verified against a color calibrated screen to be as close to reality as possible.
Let see if it makes any difference..
Vacation trip is over and i forgot to enable full remote management, thats why it has been no updates during this period.
A positive thing though, out ISP has solved the static IP problem and i don’t need to run the site through DynDNS anymore and you will not get the popups from DynDNS anymore.
