So after weeks of research I have assembled the list of equipment shown below. I’m hopeful this will get me off to a decent start but I’m aware as a newbie I may have made some rookie mistakes, feel free to point them out. I’ve noted below where I feel I may have possibly gone wrong.
The aim is start slowly with a relatively low tech, easy plant, lowish maintenance tank. The goal being to achieve a clean, healthy, decent looking tank to prove to myself that this is achievable.
Tank- 45L 50x30x30cm
Oase Filtersmart Thermo 100
Aqual Leddy Smart 2 Plant 6W LED Light (enough for this size tank/low light setup?)
13mm glass inflow/outflow pipes (outflow pipe is the spin outflow type, I now wonder if this will be sufficient?)
Tropica aquarium soil 3kg
Tropica aquarium soil powder 3kg
Tropica nutrition capsules
Tropica specialised nutrition
Seachem Matrix (to replace the stuff supplied with the Oase filter)
Seachem stability
API Stress coat+ (Maybe Seachem Prime to treat water instead?)
Dragonstone
Redmoor wood
Plants- TBD once I’m happy with the hardscape. I do have a list though which I will run past you guys.
Please feel free to comment and suggest anything you feel I’ve made an error on or indeed anything I’m missing