55 gal. plant tank (NooB)

Hi All, I am starting a new planted tank as a first timer.

Will take pics if I rememebr and post as I go I hope.. LOL

Plan... low level maintenace, no co2, very little water changes and some fish


Action so far..

I set up a 55 gallon with a ehiem wet/dry canister 2227, Heater and undergravel filter plates on both sides of tank.

The eheim filter has the wet/dry guts removed to act as a normal canister filter.

The undergravel plates are there for the future. Every so often I plan on running reverse flow under the plates to stir the gravel and dirt up best i can without disturbing... I may even put some reverse powerheads on a timer to run 1 to 2 hours a night. this may just help to keep things clean and also replenish the roots..

Today I will add Volcanite since it was a gift from a friends old tank and that will be the only substrate..

I just may add 2 small spotted puffers as I go along with this plan since I have nowhere else to put them at the moment. A Friend had them in a community tank and they killed a few of his fish so he was pretty upset.