I am not a newbie to aquariums in general just a newbie to planted aquariums. I plan to start slow and work my way up. My main goal is to grow the Discus I have in my 75g to young adullthood so their colors come out. Then turn the 75g into a planted 75g.
I think a good method of approach is taking the 20g tank I have sitting around and turn it into a planted tank with similiar params of the Discus tank.
Plan
-20g
-~2 - 2.5 WPG
-84 Deg (Discus Temps)
-Plants will be selected from a planted tank section on a Discus Forum.
-When I do a water change from my Discus tank I plan to vacuum up all the excess food/poop/water from my Discus tank and use it to do WC on my 20g. This will help me assure the tank params are similiar.
-Turface hopefully for the substrate
After I am able to sustain plant life in that tank I plan to make it happen in the 75g.
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First off...is this a decent plan? Everyone is telling me not to start right off in the 75g b/c i will prob not do so well at first. So I came up with this plan
Second...is the substrate/turface question. Is Turface Gamesaver a powder? I was almost on my way to the nearest John Deere Retailer when I saw a post saying that Turface Gamesaver is comparable to powdered sugar.
I think a good method of approach is taking the 20g tank I have sitting around and turn it into a planted tank with similiar params of the Discus tank.
Plan
-20g
-~2 - 2.5 WPG
-84 Deg (Discus Temps)
-Plants will be selected from a planted tank section on a Discus Forum.
-When I do a water change from my Discus tank I plan to vacuum up all the excess food/poop/water from my Discus tank and use it to do WC on my 20g. This will help me assure the tank params are similiar.
-Turface hopefully for the substrate
After I am able to sustain plant life in that tank I plan to make it happen in the 75g.
...........
First off...is this a decent plan? Everyone is telling me not to start right off in the 75g b/c i will prob not do so well at first. So I came up with this plan
Second...is the substrate/turface question. Is Turface Gamesaver a powder? I was almost on my way to the nearest John Deere Retailer when I saw a post saying that Turface Gamesaver is comparable to powdered sugar.