Getting back into the planted tank scene. Picked up this tank during black Friday. Been looking for a tank as clean looking as this to match the style of my house. Now only to make sure that I dont mess up my house keeping up this tank.
Specs
Spec V 5.6 gallon tanl
7500K LED day & night lighting system
Overflow filtration system
Thinking about getting some Fluval Shrimp Stratum for my substrate with some HC for my carpet. Maybe add some stone to give it a mountain range look.
Still need ideas for what fish to put in it that will stay small that I can have a decent size school of. Thinking of 5 cardinals or neons but may consider some killifish. Also may eventually add some RCS.
Thanks for the comments. I like the Boraras as a schooling fish. I may need to order them though, so has anyone had any luck on aquabid with smaller fish?
Planted and scaped today. Starting the dry start method for a couple of weeks to get the HC rooted. Here is an image. For Fauna I am going to use green tetra's my lfs gets them regularly and i can put enough for a good size school
Thinking about filling the tank up this weekend, or putting my aquaticlife lights over the tank for more light until i fill the tank. any suggestions how to make sure that HC has successfully rooted?
Just did a water change thought I would take a picture. One of my cherry's gave birth but havnt been able to find the little guys checked the filter and everything.
Had to replace an OTO that had White Fungus today. Also started to see baby shrimp all around the tank. The top of my rocks seem to be growing quite a bit of algae even though I have turned my light cycle down. Here are some pictures
Thanks this tank is coming along day by day. cant wait for the carpet to fill in and to have some trimmings to spread around this tank. looks like a lot of people got this tank, looking forward to seeing all the different ways it gets scaped
Update 1/12/13
Have 4 Red cherries saddled but still none that are berried yet. Have been like this for about 2 weeks. One of the females I received berried laid its eggs and now the shrimp are gaining confidence and showing themselves around the tank regularly. I still need to figure out how to efficiently dose this tank with the EI method, because I am starting to grow a bit of algae.
A 2 week update everything is growing like crazy did my first big trim on this tank. Here are the before and after pictures. Please excuse the trimmed photo as I had just added a water clarifier.
Its been a while. My tank is now officially infested with red cherry shrimp. Not only that but my females are berried again. I need to figure something to do with all these shrimp besides make shrimp scampi. Growth is great here is a picture.
I still had my aquatic life t5ho 30" fixture from when I sold my 29 gallon. Its a lot of light all be its truly only 24" inside the casing. I have my timer spaced out 3 times a day and only about 6 hours of total on time. I dose heavily and have CO2 pumped in and I still have a decent amount of algae growth every week. Is what I have ideal no but it does the job and my plants are growing like crazy. Ill upload a recent picture soon. Good luck with finding an alterative light fixture other members on here have been using Finnex products.
I plan on keeping the HC growing for a while under direct sunlight, won't flood the tank until I have an almost-complete carpet.
I'm worried about the ferts, what is your experience on dosing before and after flooding? I'm currently using only API Root tabs but they don't seem to have much in the line of micros.
thank you, Unfortunately the tank doesnt look so good anymore. I ran out of co2 and stopped doing regular maintenance on it since moving to my office.
For dosing I used dry ferts from greenleaf and from past experiences on a larger tank I would just eyeball the amounts. But wasnt really more than a pinch out of each bag. You can also use the flourish series but it get expensive in the long run. In my experience you will need a stronger light, during the dsm if you place it outside you may get some good growth but Ive never had good luck with a tank receiving light through window. good luck with your tank.
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