I have a discus tank that I’m converting into a low maintance tank, last few discus waiting to be re homed.
Reason why is I have started a nursing degree and struggling to be able to keep up with the demands of discus keeping ie heavy feeding and regular water changes.
I have a 200 litre cube tank with corydoras sterbai that I’m looking to keep along with some bristlnose plecs (might keep). I’m looking to add possibly green neon tetras and some neo shrimp (possibly yellow).
Currently I have sand and a whopping big bit of spider wood. I’m going to be adding a load of rocks covered in moss, and the bog wood will be covered in susswasatang on the branches with anubias at the base. I’m looking add further plants as well in the substrate at the back maybe val or something nicer looking and hopefully some staurogyne repens as a carpet.
I might go co2 after selling the discus this will be in budget.
Now the question, I’m looking for a substrate, I think black that will be good for the plants, I’m not to bothered about active to reduce the ph as our tap water here is, ph 6.5. What I’m worried about is I hear some active soils do ammonia spikes and if I have fish in the tank this won’t be good. I have heard about keeping it in buckets for a month for the soil to go through this but not sure if it works.
I have no issues with neutral substrate as I also don’t want to be changing the gravel in a year because it’s stopped working (back to too busy). Pref I would like something that would also be ok for the Corys (but not sand).
One of my LFS recommended tropicas aquarium soil powder they do a finer grain which might be better for the corys.
Any advise will be greatly appreciated
Reason why is I have started a nursing degree and struggling to be able to keep up with the demands of discus keeping ie heavy feeding and regular water changes.
I have a 200 litre cube tank with corydoras sterbai that I’m looking to keep along with some bristlnose plecs (might keep). I’m looking to add possibly green neon tetras and some neo shrimp (possibly yellow).
Currently I have sand and a whopping big bit of spider wood. I’m going to be adding a load of rocks covered in moss, and the bog wood will be covered in susswasatang on the branches with anubias at the base. I’m looking add further plants as well in the substrate at the back maybe val or something nicer looking and hopefully some staurogyne repens as a carpet.
I might go co2 after selling the discus this will be in budget.
Now the question, I’m looking for a substrate, I think black that will be good for the plants, I’m not to bothered about active to reduce the ph as our tap water here is, ph 6.5. What I’m worried about is I hear some active soils do ammonia spikes and if I have fish in the tank this won’t be good. I have heard about keeping it in buckets for a month for the soil to go through this but not sure if it works.
I have no issues with neutral substrate as I also don’t want to be changing the gravel in a year because it’s stopped working (back to too busy). Pref I would like something that would also be ok for the Corys (but not sand).
One of my LFS recommended tropicas aquarium soil powder they do a finer grain which might be better for the corys.
Any advise will be greatly appreciated