QUOTE(usermode @ Apr 9 2012, 10:32 AM)
- sorry... forgot. wat size ur tank? simple rules, if a carpet plant growing tall, it simply means they try reaching ur lights. wattage also useless if penetration isnt good enough to reach the bottom. we humans can see the lights till bottom but plants, they need to reach it, not just see it. use a correct lightings.
mine is just 350mm x 210mm x 250mm (H).
how to know i'm using the correct light? for my tank, 2.56w/L is recommended right..
or i should increase the watt??
seems it's more to try and error, is it??
QUOTE(usermode @ Apr 9 2012, 10:32 AM)
-lights are quite a factor for a growth pattern of plants. do you know even a rotala can creep instead growing tall? same do other stem plants as well? they wont creep like HC or glosso fo course, but they'll growth horisontally and will have few many more along the horizontal ones. bit hard to explain if you still not understand... if got chance i'll take photo from my tank.
waiting for your tank's photos

QUOTE(usermode @ Apr 9 2012, 10:32 AM)
- plus, one day doesnt shows anything. wait for a week at least. monitor their behaviour along the time. they didnt die doesnt mean they're already happy. lot of ways t o check fish behavior on their particular species. do some homework from google. try throw some yamato or RCS at least in there and see hwo many survived in a week. then only you'll know exact result of your water stability.
ok, will monitor the feeder fish behaviour for this 1 week.
yamato and RCS are quite expensive to become lab rat

QUOTE(LuQEE @ Apr 9 2012, 02:20 PM)
lol the stoking trick, ive seen it somewhere before.. hehe
btw, new scape on the big iwagumi tank?