Had not time to post any pictures last week so here is a 2 weeks progress.
It seems to me that this tank has stalled progressing also as seen from drop checker I ran out of CO2.

This week was probably the worst so far as in the middle of the week diatoms almost took over the whole tank. So I had to do more water changes. Also dust algae was pretty intensive.

Week 4 nothing new plants keep growing nut as fast I would like but that’s just me.
Had to clean glass as noticed some Green dust algea(GSA) but nothing major and this expected.

Not much change in this tank over a week. The fungus almost gone of the bogwood. I can see some traces of brown algae but not a lot.
Parvula is growing and spreading.

Week has passed for this tank and I can clearly see the new growth it is still not fast but I think it’s much better compared to last week.

The downside is that fuzzy brown algae started appearing in the middle of the week and is grwoing at larming rates, but I had this stuff before in the previouse setup and the only way to get rid of it is to keep water changes. The stuff does not attach itself very hard and is easy to remove. I would say it will be like that for a month.

Also green dust algae(GSA) started appearing on the glass but I clean it everytime I do water changes.

Not much happened in this tank over week.
Some of Cuba died off but I can see that it is settling in and growing.

Here is a picture of the tank.

Eleocharis settling in very well as new shoots are appearing also the tank had first hair cut.
I can see some fuzz algae appearing on java fern but it is under control.
Also fungus is growing pretty fast on the bog wood but that is expected, I just keep removing it. It will go away eventually.

Hopefully this is a start of something beautiful.
Had to restart 2 of my tanks as they went out of control.
There is not much to look at but I hope to keep the diary of changes.

30l tank

60l tank

Here is how they looked before http://www.kozeniauskas.com/fishtank/some-videos-of-my-planted-tanks/

Majority of planted tank keepers are using Carbon Dioxide(CO2) cylinders/bottles to supply CO2 for the plants. To safe cost many are using Fire Extinguishers(FE). I’ve been using FE for couple years myself but also I’ve been getting problems with them as some of them were leaking through the valve.
Here is a method how to repair the leaking CO2 FE.

The cylinder come with 2 different valves: push and screw valve.
I’ll be showing how to repair the screw valves.

Important: The cylinder does not have to be emptied to fix the leak but for your own safety please do the work on cylinder that is completely empty.
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Here are some videos of my small planted tanks.