Stewartandersonuk
Member
Hi Great forum you have here!
After being a lurker for a few weeks reading the mass of topics on the planted subject I am starting to get more of an idea how this all works.
This will be my first time I have aimed for a high-tech planted tank!
I have worked around what fish I wanted to stock eventually, and then worked backwards to get my design, plants and equipment. I haven't got all this design down on paper yet but I am working on it I have just purchased a 2nd hand Vison 450 tank so I have a lot of work to do.
Now to my questions:
Thanks in advance
After being a lurker for a few weeks reading the mass of topics on the planted subject I am starting to get more of an idea how this all works.
This will be my first time I have aimed for a high-tech planted tank!
I have worked around what fish I wanted to stock eventually, and then worked backwards to get my design, plants and equipment. I haven't got all this design down on paper yet but I am working on it I have just purchased a 2nd hand Vison 450 tank so I have a lot of work to do.
Now to my questions:
- 1, If using 1-2cm of EC, ADA Amazon, etc as my base topped off with Argos play sand around 4cm or so is this going to work ok? (I plan to have lots of corys and judging by how much they destroy my current sand scape in my other tank I am afraid if I don't have it deep enough they will get to the planting layer)
2, Is it a good idea to use planting tabs as well or is this not needed? (I do intend to dose ferts etc, and use Co2) still reading up on this as we speak.
3, I would also like to plant some sort of grass to form a carpet, in these areas (near front) should I use less sand?
4, Is there anything else I need to know about using sand? apart from its harder to keep clean, releasing gases (I will have corys and lots of grass so this should be less of a problem for me I think)
Thanks in advance