The Planted Tank Forum - View Single Post - Help with my first nano (56k, I feel your pain)

**random_alias** · 10-26-2005, 05:55 AM

I've put up a black background and set the 13w galaxy light up over the 1.3. It's about 5.5-6.0 inches above the water. The wood has a much nicer brown color under this 7000k light, not at all like the orange hue it had under that other light I held over it for the above pic. I did a Ro water change and added 1/4tsp Equilibrium and a 1ml Excel. I added maybe 1/16 tsp of baking soda. Then I planted a few small cuttings of Pearl Weed to see if anything will grow in here before ordering a lot of HC and sending it to it's doom.

From now on I'll be dosing Excel at a rate of .2ml a day...somehow. At that rate, this 250ml bottle should last me about 3.5 years

So now I just need to dose ferts. I want to try EI @ 25% normal dosage.

So how do I add:

.0023 tsp of Potassium Nitrate
5.682x10(-4) tsp of Mono Potassium Phosphate
.0455 ml of micronutrient solution

Does anyone make 1/500th teaspoons?

Looks like I'll have to mix solutions.

How do you guys dose your carbon enriched nanos?

10-26-2005, 05:55 AM	#23 (permalink)
random_alias Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (10/100%) Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NC Posts: 728	I've put up a black background and set the 13w galaxy light up over the 1.3. It's about 5.5-6.0 inches above the water. The wood has a much nicer brown color under this 7000k light, not at all like the orange hue it had under that other light I held over it for the above pic. I did a Ro water change and added 1/4tsp Equilibrium and a 1ml Excel. I added maybe 1/16 tsp of baking soda. Then I planted a few small cuttings of Pearl Weed to see if anything will grow in here before ordering a lot of HC and sending it to it's doom. From now on I'll be dosing Excel at a rate of .2ml a day...somehow. At that rate, this 250ml bottle should last me about 3.5 years So now I just need to dose ferts. I want to try EI @ 25% normal dosage. So how do I add: .0023 tsp of Potassium Nitrate 5.682x10(-4) tsp of Mono Potassium Phosphate .0455 ml of micronutrient solution Does anyone make 1/500th teaspoons? Looks like I'll have to mix solutions. How do you guys dose your carbon enriched nanos? __________________ "Insanity: doing [or asking] the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Last edited by random_alias; 11-01-2005 at 12:02 AM.