Patrick's Absurdly Expensive Aquariums
20g Planted Tank
20g Planted Tank
Equipment-
Marineland canister filter c-160
Coralife Aqualight t-5 2x14w
40lb Eco Complete substrate
Visi-Therm Stealth, 75 WATT
Structure-
Currently it's very sporadic.
There's 1 small log and plants are
sort of just tossed in there.
Live Stock-
Fish
1x Bosemani Rainbow
1x Rubbernose Pleco
Inverts
?x malaysian trumpet snail
?x Pouch/Tadpole Snail
Plants
Because this is very likely to change in the near future I'm not filling this out yet. I'm going to try lots of different species and see what I can get to thrive. Once I get to that point, there'll be alot more info here.
Notes-
After feeling like I really accomplished setting up and maintaining a reef tank I felt I wanted to go back and try something I kind of skipped. I always wanted to do a planted fresh tank, but with my cichlid tank that was kind of impossible. With limited space in my tiny apartment I got a 20g High that I decided would be my planted tank. I put a canister filter on it so I could somewhat control the amount of surface agitation therefore keeping the co2 in the tank.
Right now it's just kind of a mishmash of random plants so I can find out what I can grow, and what I can't. I'm supplementing with flourish atm to help out so we'll see how it goes. My only conern is the lighting. I originally wanted to get a compact flourescent to get a bit more light, but my LFS owner got in a t-5 for a bit cheaper so I thought I'd give that a shot. After all if it doesn't quite do it I can always get a CF and then set the t-5 in front of it.
Equipment-
Marineland canister filter c-160
Coralife Aqualight t-5 2x14w
40lb Eco Complete substrate
Visi-Therm Stealth, 75 WATT
Structure-
Currently it's very sporadic.
There's 1 small log and plants are
sort of just tossed in there.
Live Stock-
Fish
1x Bosemani Rainbow
1x Rubbernose Pleco
Inverts
?x malaysian trumpet snail
?x Pouch/Tadpole Snail
Plants
Because this is very likely to change in the near future I'm not filling this out yet. I'm going to try lots of different species and see what I can get to thrive. Once I get to that point, there'll be alot more info here.
Notes-
After feeling like I really accomplished setting up and maintaining a reef tank I felt I wanted to go back and try something I kind of skipped. I always wanted to do a planted fresh tank, but with my cichlid tank that was kind of impossible. With limited space in my tiny apartment I got a 20g High that I decided would be my planted tank. I put a canister filter on it so I could somewhat control the amount of surface agitation therefore keeping the co2 in the tank.
Right now it's just kind of a mishmash of random plants so I can find out what I can grow, and what I can't. I'm supplementing with flourish atm to help out so we'll see how it goes. My only conern is the lighting. I originally wanted to get a compact flourescent to get a bit more light, but my LFS owner got in a t-5 for a bit cheaper so I thought I'd give that a shot. After all if it doesn't quite do it I can always get a CF and then set the t-5 in front of it.
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