GraemeVW
Member
Hello everyone, just joined the forum.
Wasn't sure where to post this.
I've been keeping fish for over 30 years, mainly just community tanks, couple of low tech planted tanks and a mini coral reef tank.
I am at the ordering stuff stage of a new tank though and found this place while searching various things.
I've read various snippets of things here and there that has made me think i may need to learn some more about planted tanks though.
I'm putting together a 980x400x500 tank, eheim classic 600, 72w of LED lighting. Will be sort of amazonian style with some angels, tetras, corys, nothing ground breaking.
Didn't really want to start loads of posts with quick questions about different things so thought I'd put them here.
My last 60l tank I used garden soil under sand and used easy plants. No co2, fertiliser etc, just left it to it.
I planned to do the same but this time with aquatic compost. I'd like to keep it as low tech as I can. I did read a bit on here about this. I didn't put anything between the soil and sand last time though. Should I? I used garden soil and play sand last time.
I have some plum tree branches I was going to use. I cut them from my tree 18 months ago and are dried through. I assume I need to take the bark off? I can't boil them though. I've read hard fruit tree wood should be ok in an aquarium.
My lights have 4 colour channels which can all be ramped up and down individually throughout the day. It's been set to low power on my simple 60l for a while but it's still set to the same balance as when it was growing corals. I figured the sun doesn't know if it's shining on salt water or fresh. But any tips on setting this light up better would be appreciated.
As for plants, I don't really know much about them. But I think I'm looking at
Vallisnetia of some kind
Cabomba of some kind
Echinodorus of some kind
Maybe something floating, but tank will have glass covers so might not be able to.
And maybe some nymphaea rubra, but I might try and make fake ones of these. I like the long stems and mid water leaves look.
I'm not sticking 100% to indigenous plants etc though so whatever will work with what I plan and stay alive in a low tech set up. Any plant suggestions welcome!
This is the kind of feel I'm hoping for, sort of.
I've never really done this kind of tank properly though, Ive always just chucked loads of plants in the tank and whichever ones didn't die, stayed. So any thought at all on any of what I plan would be appreciated.
These are some more screen shots from a YouTube video I'm sure you have all seen.
Thanks.
Wasn't sure where to post this.
I've been keeping fish for over 30 years, mainly just community tanks, couple of low tech planted tanks and a mini coral reef tank.
I am at the ordering stuff stage of a new tank though and found this place while searching various things.
I've read various snippets of things here and there that has made me think i may need to learn some more about planted tanks though.
I'm putting together a 980x400x500 tank, eheim classic 600, 72w of LED lighting. Will be sort of amazonian style with some angels, tetras, corys, nothing ground breaking.
Didn't really want to start loads of posts with quick questions about different things so thought I'd put them here.
My last 60l tank I used garden soil under sand and used easy plants. No co2, fertiliser etc, just left it to it.
I planned to do the same but this time with aquatic compost. I'd like to keep it as low tech as I can. I did read a bit on here about this. I didn't put anything between the soil and sand last time though. Should I? I used garden soil and play sand last time.
I have some plum tree branches I was going to use. I cut them from my tree 18 months ago and are dried through. I assume I need to take the bark off? I can't boil them though. I've read hard fruit tree wood should be ok in an aquarium.
My lights have 4 colour channels which can all be ramped up and down individually throughout the day. It's been set to low power on my simple 60l for a while but it's still set to the same balance as when it was growing corals. I figured the sun doesn't know if it's shining on salt water or fresh. But any tips on setting this light up better would be appreciated.
As for plants, I don't really know much about them. But I think I'm looking at
Vallisnetia of some kind
Cabomba of some kind
Echinodorus of some kind
Maybe something floating, but tank will have glass covers so might not be able to.
And maybe some nymphaea rubra, but I might try and make fake ones of these. I like the long stems and mid water leaves look.
I'm not sticking 100% to indigenous plants etc though so whatever will work with what I plan and stay alive in a low tech set up. Any plant suggestions welcome!
This is the kind of feel I'm hoping for, sort of.
I've never really done this kind of tank properly though, Ive always just chucked loads of plants in the tank and whichever ones didn't die, stayed. So any thought at all on any of what I plan would be appreciated.
These are some more screen shots from a YouTube video I'm sure you have all seen.
Thanks.