miracle grow expeirment.

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so, background. i have a 29g spare tank that i decided to make a planted set up out of, after buying the thatpetplace.com jungle asst. plant pack for a 30g tank i set it up with peat moss and generic dry aquatic fert and layered over with 'african cichlid substrate'. lighting is a walmart hood with 20' 20watt plant/coral life bulb, and powerhead, with aquatech 60 filter. i saw nothing astonashing, or anything dissasterous, so with feeding the tank, liquid plant feed every two weeks i saw an improvmet in growth and one really amazing alge bloom(turned my water dark green for over a week, and my plants near brown and dead) i decided to remove the fish(salvinni, jewel, firemouth) and left a bristlnose plec. that i couldnt catch. and i started useing a tablespoon of powdered miracle grow every week, with this naturally it turned the water blue, but the plants started to thrive, and the pleco still lives, so today i dropped in the firemouth and a gouromi(sp), so only time will tell if they'll be able to live with the weekly dosing of miracle grow.
i've also been trying to make a C02 system for the tank, but im not possitve on dosing of yeast on sugar, my first try after shaking the bottle and removing the cap, everything blew out everywhere:WHOA: , and made my fish room sticky:ROFL:
so i'll attempt more on that later. before/after pics soon to come.

has anyone else ever tryed this?
 
i study horticulture and all i can tell you about miracle grow is it is like plant cocaine it literally addicts your plants to the product and and the end they can't live with out it..there are many other fertilizers out there that are better and wont do this
 
Ditch the idea. Not good for the plants in the long run. Don't shake co2 bottles. Also remove the whisper hob filter, it is doing more harm than good.
 
WyldFya;623410; said:
Ditch the idea. Not good for the plants in the long run. Don't shake co2 bottles. Also remove the whisper hob filter, it is doing more harm than good.
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are you saying use the plants as filtration? or switch to a canister that doesnt agitate as much water?
and some people were saying on a plant site to place the co2 hose near the powerhead, and to turn off the powerhead when the lights are out. is this correct? im a noob to plants, not so much to water and fishkeeping.
 
Yeah, the plants will do a great job at filtering the water actually. Many newer tanks are now going by the no filter tanks. Ditch HOB filters, they will lose 99% of your co2. Powerhead with co2 in the output is the best way IMO to get co2 into the water, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
 
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