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I've been keeping a reef for a few years but work has me traveling so much and the wife is sick of its upkeep. We all know the living room isn't the same without fish so I've been doing a lot of reading and lurking and it looks like the walstad method is the low maintenance way to go, if it can work as advertised.
I've got a 40b that I'd like to use. Is like to stock as many cardinal tetras as the tank can handle with a few algae eaters, maybe shrimp for that purpose, and one dwarf African frog. I'd like to stick with the easier plants, but a boat load of them. I'm thinking Lilaeopsis to get some form of carpeting, also amazon swords, anubias nana, water wisteria, and Java fern. I've gathered these are all pretty basic plants.
I've got a scape in mind with a pretty basic layout, one large rectangular rock and a longer narrow piece of driftwood. I'd like to cover the rock in Java moss but haven't found an online source yet.
My questions have to do with equipment. I hate seeing stuff inside the tank but some of my reading doesn't encourage filtration in the walstad method. I'm looking for a way to hide the heater, would a small canister with an inline heater be to much flow? I could remove the provided media.
Lighting, I've been looking at a two bulb t5ho 36" with two 39w lamps. Too much or not enough? Hoping it would cut it as the 40b is a fairly shallow tank.
Anyone have anything similar to this going on? Money isn't much issue but not trying to break the bank. Any other plant suggestions? Fast growing easy to keep preferred. And livestock ideas are welcome too. How many cardinal tetras do y'all think a setup like this could handle? Thanks for reading such a long post, and thanks for the help.
I've got a 40b that I'd like to use. Is like to stock as many cardinal tetras as the tank can handle with a few algae eaters, maybe shrimp for that purpose, and one dwarf African frog. I'd like to stick with the easier plants, but a boat load of them. I'm thinking Lilaeopsis to get some form of carpeting, also amazon swords, anubias nana, water wisteria, and Java fern. I've gathered these are all pretty basic plants.
I've got a scape in mind with a pretty basic layout, one large rectangular rock and a longer narrow piece of driftwood. I'd like to cover the rock in Java moss but haven't found an online source yet.
My questions have to do with equipment. I hate seeing stuff inside the tank but some of my reading doesn't encourage filtration in the walstad method. I'm looking for a way to hide the heater, would a small canister with an inline heater be to much flow? I could remove the provided media.
Lighting, I've been looking at a two bulb t5ho 36" with two 39w lamps. Too much or not enough? Hoping it would cut it as the 40b is a fairly shallow tank.
Anyone have anything similar to this going on? Money isn't much issue but not trying to break the bank. Any other plant suggestions? Fast growing easy to keep preferred. And livestock ideas are welcome too. How many cardinal tetras do y'all think a setup like this could handle? Thanks for reading such a long post, and thanks for the help.