Darren Carter
Member
Hi guys Looking for advice with my planted tank, I started it up 3 weeks ago with the light on a timer for 6 hours a day, 10am-4pm the tanks doing really well so far all tropica plants as I didn’t want any snails or algee which I had problems with at my local fish store when buying plants so brought them at aqua gardens, I’m using 2ml of George farmers plant food daily and 2ml liquid co2 as it’s a 50l tank 40x40x40, just wondered when I should take the timer up to 8 hours for the light on a day?.
I have ordered some lily pipes for the inlet and outlet on my filter and tank to tidy it up and get rid of the horrible green pipes make it look more realistic, i have read about people using external heaters, do these work I’d love to get one just so there’s no equipment in there really but I have read really bad reviews for them, this will be home to a betta eventually Still unsure about adding shrimp,
Here’s a pic of when it was first started I removed the plants that were in the front to begin with as didn’t like them but I have added a few more etc and it’s been running now three weeks just done a 15ltr water change today
I have ordered some lily pipes for the inlet and outlet on my filter and tank to tidy it up and get rid of the horrible green pipes make it look more realistic, i have read about people using external heaters, do these work I’d love to get one just so there’s no equipment in there really but I have read really bad reviews for them, this will be home to a betta eventually Still unsure about adding shrimp,
Here’s a pic of when it was first started I removed the plants that were in the front to begin with as didn’t like them but I have added a few more etc and it’s been running now three weeks just done a 15ltr water change today