TarkMalbot
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Hi everyone.
I have been a fishkeeper for about 5 years, keeping different community fish. I have had the odd plant in the tank over the years, some did well and some didn't.
This is what it looked like only a few weeks ago:
Only recently I got back into the hobby and bought a new 425 litre tank and transfered that big plant over but it is my old 165 litre tank that is now taking pride of place in my living room and as my wife loves the look of planted tanks on the internet we are having a proper go at it ourselves.
At present we have the Aquaone 850 tank with the standard trickle filters and a cheap Flora-Grow Nano 150 CO2 setup which isn't going too well. Basically I feel that the 95gram bottles wont be cost effective and is wasting CO2 because it has no solenoid to turn it off at night and the trickle filter is adding O2 to the tank all the time.
I have just ordered a Eheim 600 external filter to replace the trickle system and plan on upgrading the CO2 to a 2KG bottle with regulator and solenoid.
We are only using standard gravel substrate that has been in the tank for 5 years but have some TNC fertiliser and just bought some Seachem Flourish too.
Here is how the tank looks at the moment and any advice would be great.
The tank currently has the following fish:
6 x Rummynose, 6 x Marble Hatchets, 6 x Neon Tetras, 6 x 5 Banded Barbs, 2 x Honey Gourami, 2 x Kribensis, 2 x Whiptail, 1 x Bulldog Pleco & 1 x Bristlenose Pleco
And my other tank is this:
It has a few plants but I am having problems with the Bala pulling them out with their flappyness but have just doubled the lighting to 2 x 54W T5 Life and 2 x 54W T5 Power and am putting TNC in to keep the plants going I already have.
Looking forward to the fourm.
Thanks.
Mark
I have been a fishkeeper for about 5 years, keeping different community fish. I have had the odd plant in the tank over the years, some did well and some didn't.
This is what it looked like only a few weeks ago:
Only recently I got back into the hobby and bought a new 425 litre tank and transfered that big plant over but it is my old 165 litre tank that is now taking pride of place in my living room and as my wife loves the look of planted tanks on the internet we are having a proper go at it ourselves.
At present we have the Aquaone 850 tank with the standard trickle filters and a cheap Flora-Grow Nano 150 CO2 setup which isn't going too well. Basically I feel that the 95gram bottles wont be cost effective and is wasting CO2 because it has no solenoid to turn it off at night and the trickle filter is adding O2 to the tank all the time.
I have just ordered a Eheim 600 external filter to replace the trickle system and plan on upgrading the CO2 to a 2KG bottle with regulator and solenoid.
We are only using standard gravel substrate that has been in the tank for 5 years but have some TNC fertiliser and just bought some Seachem Flourish too.
Here is how the tank looks at the moment and any advice would be great.
The tank currently has the following fish:
6 x Rummynose, 6 x Marble Hatchets, 6 x Neon Tetras, 6 x 5 Banded Barbs, 2 x Honey Gourami, 2 x Kribensis, 2 x Whiptail, 1 x Bulldog Pleco & 1 x Bristlenose Pleco
And my other tank is this:
It has a few plants but I am having problems with the Bala pulling them out with their flappyness but have just doubled the lighting to 2 x 54W T5 Life and 2 x 54W T5 Power and am putting TNC in to keep the plants going I already have.
Looking forward to the fourm.
Thanks.
Mark
Youll probably need hardy plant species in there with those Silver sharks, maybe some Anubias species and more ferns will look nice and be relatively undemanding. Your hygrophila and echinodorus are also good choices.
