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Hello everybody! As I am beginning to like my tank's look, I will make a description of it:
Size 200 liter (100x40x50 cm)
Equipment
Fish
Fertilizing
Water
At the beginning the aquarium looked like this:

Then I had problems with a messy kind of Red Algae, the one that looks like black dust covering everything.

Eventually I got rid of that algae with the EasyLife EasyCarbo. The water turned red from the dead red algae.

Now, after 5 months from setup the tank looks like this:

After a small trimming:

Plants by numbers:

Size 200 liter (100x40x50 cm)
Equipment
- Hagen Fluval 304 filter
- Hagen Fluval Tronic 200W heater
- Hagen Surface Skimmer
- JBL UV Sterilizer - 9W
- Pressurized CO2 addition with PH controller
- Lighting: 5x30W T8 (2xOsram Fluora, 2xOsram 865, 1xPhilips 830)
- Substrate: Dennerle DeponitMix Professional covered with 2-3mm gravel
- Heteranthera Zosterifolia
- Sagittaria Subulata
- Cryptocoryne Wendtti
- Alternanthera Reineckii var. lilacina
- Hemianthus Micranthemoides
- Eleocharis Parvula
- Micranthemum Umbrosum
- Microsorum Pteporus 'Windelow'
- Anubias Barteri var. nana 'petite'
- Vesicularia Dubyana (Java Moss)
- Echinodorus Aquartica
- Glossostigma Elatinoides
Fish
- Mikrogeophagus Ramirezi
- Harlequin Rasbora
- Paracheirodon Innesi
- Crossocheilus siamensis
- Corydoras Catfish
Fertilizing
- JBL Ferropol (liquid)
- JBL Ferropol 24
- JBL Ferrotabs
- EasyLife EasyCarbo
- PPS solutions for nitrates and phosphates addition
Water
- PH = 6.9
- KH = 8
- NO3 = 10-15ppm
- PO4 = 0.5-1.0ppm
- CO2 = 25-30ppm
At the beginning the aquarium looked like this:

Then I had problems with a messy kind of Red Algae, the one that looks like black dust covering everything.

Eventually I got rid of that algae with the EasyLife EasyCarbo. The water turned red from the dead red algae.

Now, after 5 months from setup the tank looks like this:

After a small trimming:

Plants by numbers:
