This thread will be for my first planted tank. I already got all the stuff to get this done except co2. Equipment: 29g tank with hood, t8 light, big bag of Eco complete, root tabs, dwarf hair grass, bacopa, aquatop cf400-Uv canister filter, 29g wood stand. Tomorrow I'm going to get the stand built and by the night it should be ready to plant. I been reading for months about this stuff now it's time for hands on. I welcome any tips to help me have a nice planted tank. Maybe a nice piece of drift wood in the middle with some moss growing off it like a tree. I'm going for that carpet look maybe some tall grass toward the back.
i think people are just trying to help you not get too discouraged with the plants. Starting off with easier plants that are compatible with your lighting will help your enthusiasm for live aquarium plants and planted tanks in general. If you read the reviews on those "bulbs", it looks like a crap shoot.
I just gave away here in the forum a bag of plant trimmings as a RAOK. (random act of kindness) Maybe enough to cover you whole tank, but I didn't remember about you in time.
Take a look at this tanks to get some ideas for a layout.
Aponogeton bulbs are not a good way to start a tank. Crypts, stems, and swords are better. But nothing will grow well if it doesn't have enough light or CO2.
If you want a carpet, it's best to break up your patch of hairgrass and plant it in plugs throughout the tank. It will spread faster that way. And your bacopa will grow better if you plant the stems individually about 1" apart.
I'm seeing a new plant growing on the side by the bacopa it could just be spreading out or maybe one of the bulbs are growing but the other bulbs just turned brown and ugly they did not grow hmmm wonder what's growing.
Plants I'll be ordering next Friday. I'll also be setting up diy co2 even though they don't require co2 but they will grow nicer with it. Bought some airline tube, yeast and a check valve. What mixture should I do with a 1.89l bottle?
1o-Rotala sp green
10-Marsilea minuta -carpet plant
2-Cabomba purple - best chance for color
1/2 portion -flame moss
10-rotala colorata
1-anubias nana
4-medium baby tears
2-ludwigia repens and palustris
There are tiny little bubble looking things on the new plant coming up and it grew a leaf very fast overnight that's where the bubbles are. I don't have my diy co2 up yet what can it be?
I have been using root tabs and eco complete must really work well you can see how fast that new leaf grew over night. Here is a pic of the plants with no co2 and here is a pic of my diy co2 setup it's not done yet but I'll get it up sometime this week.
Awesome. DIY is fun, because it allows you to better understand the CO2 process.
It also is very unstable, so DIY is a great gateway into pressurized. You will enjoy a high tech setup more after going through a lower tech.
Best of luck, looks like fun, I remember doing very similar things not long ago. :flick:
Got the co2 hooked up now we play the waiting game. The spray bar must off got a little air in it because it went off all crazy that's why there are a bunch of bubbles.
So DIY CO2 isn't CO2? You do have nice growth in the tank, just saying if this ^ is CO2 then you are releasing most of it back to the air from the tank with the air stone.
I'm ordering some plants tonight from a guy on here. My fish are good but I'm trading them for some neon tetras this weekend. So next week i will have a bunch of plants ready to be planted.
I would skip the betta and go with a more peaceful interesting fish. Maybe a smaller school of neos and another school of ottos? That way you have middle and bottom feeders at least.
Maybe:
14 neos (+6) = 20 middle feeders This batch first
6 ottos bottom/algae feeders second batch
6 marble hatch fish top feeders 3rd batch
All of them at once will be too much IMO for your tank. You may expect a big ammonia spike and a mini cycle.
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