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Before you go out and buy anything and regret your retail therapy, ask some questions. Starting a planted aquarium has a lot of moving parts, so you want to nail those down before you get in too deep. Here are some good questions to keep in mind: -What kind of fish do you want? Do you want animals other than fish in y…See more on dustinsfishtanks

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WEBHow To Start a Planted Fish Tank For Beginners. Adding live plants to your aquarium is highly beneficial and rewarding. Plants help to eat up excess nutrients from fish waste, provide cover and hiding spots …

HolyAngel. 2800 posts · Joined 2010. #8 · Aug 19, 2015. +1 to everything Raymond said. A 29 gallon tank was also my first tank, I started low tech and worked my way up. Think I've spent a couple grand on that tank in the last 7 years or so, so don't feel bad lol. Cant really do lowtech with hc/carpet tho.

232 posts · Joined 2010. #1 · Apr 20, 2011 (Edited) Hi all. I didn't want to go the traditional "sloping sand"-route in creating a habitat for my mudskippers. To start with, I had three Periophthalmodon septemradiatus males. This is not the most aggressive nor largest species of 'skippers, but it still wants to form and defend a small territory.

Diana. Filter media can be broken down into 3 groups. Which is best for your system depends on what your system needs. Mechanical filtration is the removal of particles. Usually this is done with porous media like sponges. The coarsest media is first to contact the dirty water, then medium, then finer, ending with floss.

New 20g Planted Tank (Epiphytes only) - 11/17/20 - FTS and Videos. Hi everyone! Well I got inspired to change some things up here at home - and I am actually going to redo my small 8 gallon with the leftovers from this 20g build but in this thread I will update the bigger tank, my new 20g tank. I'll update my other journal with the nano redo.

Absolutely. Standard aquarium salt used in small doses replaces minerals that are lost to the tank water being constantly filtered. A teaspoon or so added to every five gallons of new, treated tap water during the weekly water change will keep your aquatic plants healthy. B.

WaterLife. 2857 posts · Joined 2015. #2 · Sep 14, 2016. I've heard of people using (full dosage) API General Cure (Metro + Prazi) and other's using just straight Praziquantel or Metronidazole solely, for treating Scutariella japonica in their shrimp tanks and had no issues with their shrimps. Since you are using an antibiotic (Metronidazole ...

Purigen adsorbs stuff that is dissolved in the the water.. It is straight-up adsorbing these things, not doing an ion-exchange, so there's nothing it "puts back" into the water. In removing dissolved solids from the water, it fundamentally has to reduce TDS as there's now less solids in the same water.

Use this for general planted tank queries that don't fall into one of the forums below. Threads 6.5K Messages 71.3K. Threads 6.5K Messages 71.3K. How to store RO water. ... Aquarium Gardens specialize online in planted tanks and are proud to offer the highest quality aquarium plants at great prices. Threads 225 Messages 821. Sub-forums. …

Attached video is my tank setup on April 16th- 32gallon, 23.6"x17.71"x17.71", Oase thermo 250 adjusted @ 50% flow with glass lily pipes, pressurized CO2 (4 BPS with tank water, 4dKH solution is lime green), Chichiros All MAX A2 lights run at 75% intensity which is 0.4W/Liter and 4425 lm

pH from 6 to 6.5 is usually a bit too soft for hard water plants. GH and KH usually 3-5 degrees. pH from 6.5-7.5 is mid-range, and GH and KH from 5 to 9 is probably fine for these plants. pH 7.5-8 might be too hard for the specialize soft water plants. GH and KH usually 9-20 degrees. pH over 8 is usually very hard water.

5993 posts · Joined 2011. #3 · Nov 15, 2011. Running a new sponge in an cycled tank will "seed" the new sponge right away. There is no more or less to seeding the filter media. I would say to let it run an hour more as a system check i.e.. flow, fit, leveling, vibration etc. Once seeded the bacteria will establish based on their food source ...

Here are the wives-tails I've know of and thus don't use it. 1. Don't use carbon in a planted tank. 2. The effectiveness last only about a month. 3. Use carbon as a chemical filter to remove medications added due to disease. Thanks. After 50 years I do a lot of things right, but still get things wrong.

For planted aquariums, it is recommended that you first place a soil-based substrate that will provide nutrients to the plants. Start by adding a 1-inch layer of this substrate to the tank and spread it across …

158 posts · Joined 2022. #1 · May 7, 2022. I am building a 90 gallon tank with a 55 gallon sump i will post pic of my current progress after work today. I have already asked some questions about my stocking plan and will be thinking about changes to that and post when decided. I will be raising shrimp in the sump and possibly using the sump ...

221 posts · Joined 2002. #3 · Jan 8, 2003. the books I find useful for planted tanks are: Berti Gesting, Nature and aquarium (advanced aquarium management) Dennerle, System for a problem free aquarium. Dr Karel Rataj, Thomas j Horeman, Aquarium Plants ( their Identification, cultivation and ecology)

Air stones are not necessary. What you need is surface agitation. Even a slight ripple across the surface of the water will be enough movement for gas exchange. An air stone will only affect CO2 levels of you are injecting CO2. What the air stone is doing is causing surface agitation. Any kind of filter has the ability to provide said agitation.

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About an hour after lights out, and stop it about an hour before lights on. Fish are happy now. Tank 2: 15g, pressurized CO2 on a solenoid (on/off with lights), glass top, Aquaclear HOB filter. No airstone - the HOB breaks the water surface enough - don't get gasping fish. Tank 3: 6g, pressurized CO2, no solenoid, open top, Turtle 501 filter ...

Here's the underside with a little of the side showing to give a color comparison. As i thought its almost solid black. It doesn't rub off but when I scratch it the wood is normal color underneath. Greg. 29g Dirt, 28g Bowfront Low Tech, 20L Shrimp tank, 2g Fluval Spec, Planted Vases, Emersed Tubs.

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As the water gets saltier, however, the bacteria are different. If you are setting up a tank that will ultimately be a brackish water tank I would either cycle it as a brackish water tank, or else make the change from fresh to brackish slowly so the bacteria can adapt. A marine tank has quite different bacteria, and should be cycled as a marine ...

Gravel. Bucket. Saucer. Aquarium decor. Hood with a plant light. Heater. Filtration system. Water test kit. The 10 Steps on How to Set Up a Planted Tank.

Like 50% or more of the volume of the tank is filled with plants. This is of course how he he is getting away with few or no water changes. The sand tank is the exception because the fish in there would eat plants I believe. We do water changes of course to remove waste material that would build up. This includes nitrate.

Setting Up a Successful Low-Tech Planted Tank like a Pro, Part 1: The Basics. Author: Lea Maddocks. It can be difficult for a beginner to know how to incorporate plants into their …

The most important step in setting up a planted aquarium is to do your research. Different plants and fish require specific parameters in order to thrive and …

1/4 tsp (leveled) + 13g = 1dKH. 1/2 tsp (leveled) 2.2 grams on my scale + 26g = 1dKH. Easy, cheap and dependable on results. My well water is so bad it's like trying to grow plants in cured concrete so I use RO. Purchased the Seachem line at the end of 2008. Alkaline 95% and Acid buffers 95%, Neutral Regulator 70% and Equilibrium 10%. % = …

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I have 3 other tanks I'm running emersed plants in right now so I'm not in a hurry. There are cherry shrimp, ember tetra and endlers here. This isn't exactly the same think you want to do, but I think you can use the same filtration and …

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deepgreen1. 32 posts · Joined 2015. #25 · Oct 15, 2017. I do 50% water change every one to two years or so. 90 gallon heavily planted tank, CO2, RO water regularly filled up, moderate macro and micro ferts, moderate Osmocote+, little fish load. 2.5 year old ADA AS.