Upgrade lights

[craigis]

I'm now thinking I'm going to halfto upgrade my lights I planted Monte carlo last week and it looks to me like it's dieing I'm using pressurised c02 and Easycarbo but that doesn't look like it's enough the lights are t8 30w x2 also using tetra substrate

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[bwarwicker]

Are you using any fertilisers as well?

[craigis]

Yes easycarb

[bwarwicker]

Easycarbo is a little pointless alongside a CO2 system. Its just an alternative to pressurised CO2. Aquarium Gardens will do fertilisers but I'll turf out what I used to buy later. I may have bought it from them thinking about it.

[craigis]

Funny enough a guy from this site told me to buy it

[craigis]

His names pleco fan had some good advice off this site 

[Gingerlove05]

Yeah easycarbo is liquid “co2”, which isn’t co2 more an algaecide.
You will need ferts alongside co2, when i first started i used TNC complete which was what i got from Aquarium Gardens. It’s normally a weekly dose although you might want more with the co2.
A lot of co2 users tend to go the EI dosing/dry ferts route as it works out cheaper long term.

[bwarwicker]

Yeah easycarbo is liquid “co2”, which isn’t co2 more an algaecide.
You will need ferts alongside co2, when i first started i used TNC complete which was what i got from Aquarium Gardens. It’s normally a weekly dose although you might want more with the co2.
A lot of co2 users tend to go the EI dosing/dry ferts route as it works out cheaper long term.

I used an EI fert kit.