Now that my new 90g (48x18x24) is established, planted, and scaped, I figured it was time to reveal!
Filtration is a 20g wet/dry with bioballs and pillow batting running about 600gph.
Lighting is a 4 bulb HO wavepoint fixture with three full sun spectrum bulbs and a blue actinic bulb. The lights come on at 1pm, has a siesta period from 5:30 to 6:30, and then shuts off at 11pm. All together that is 9 hours of light a day.
I tried to be as creative as possible with my substrate as to give my plants the best shot. This is my first truly planted tank so its all a bit of an experiment. I started with a half inch layer of flourite, covered with an inch layer of organic potting soil, and then capped off with an inch or so of Black Diamond Blasting Sand.
The centerpiece is just an interesting stump I found in my bosses yard of all places.
Livestock:
7x Peppered Corydoras
7x Giant Danios
3x Senegal Bichirs
1x Delhezi Bichir
1x Banded Knife Fish
1x Eclipse catfish
I plan on adding in a few more Bichirs as I find some of the smaller species but they are proving a bit difficult to track down.
Plant stock:
Vallisneria spiralus
Aponogeton boivinianus
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Anubias nana
Anubias congensis
Anubias frazeri
Bacopa monnieri
Water Onion (crinum thaianum)
Amazon Sword (echinodorus amazonicus)
Dracaena veriegatus
Java Fern (microsorum pteropus)
Aponogeton natans
Telanthera Cardinalus
I am dosing every other day with Flourish and Flourish Trace.
I am not competely sure on some of these plants so forgive me if I mislabeled anything. I want to look into a CO2 system eventually but I want to see if the tank will take off without it.
This is the most recent full tank shot and I have more of the livestock and plants in an album -> http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/index.php?media/albums/90g-planted-wonderland.1/
I plan to keep updating this thread with weekly tank shots to track the growth of the plants and whatnot. I would love any input you all have to offer!
Filtration is a 20g wet/dry with bioballs and pillow batting running about 600gph.
Lighting is a 4 bulb HO wavepoint fixture with three full sun spectrum bulbs and a blue actinic bulb. The lights come on at 1pm, has a siesta period from 5:30 to 6:30, and then shuts off at 11pm. All together that is 9 hours of light a day.
I tried to be as creative as possible with my substrate as to give my plants the best shot. This is my first truly planted tank so its all a bit of an experiment. I started with a half inch layer of flourite, covered with an inch layer of organic potting soil, and then capped off with an inch or so of Black Diamond Blasting Sand.
The centerpiece is just an interesting stump I found in my bosses yard of all places.
Livestock:
7x Peppered Corydoras
7x Giant Danios
3x Senegal Bichirs
1x Delhezi Bichir
1x Banded Knife Fish
1x Eclipse catfish
I plan on adding in a few more Bichirs as I find some of the smaller species but they are proving a bit difficult to track down.
Plant stock:
Vallisneria spiralus
Aponogeton boivinianus
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Anubias nana
Anubias congensis
Anubias frazeri
Bacopa monnieri
Water Onion (crinum thaianum)
Amazon Sword (echinodorus amazonicus)
Dracaena veriegatus
Java Fern (microsorum pteropus)
Aponogeton natans
Telanthera Cardinalus
I am dosing every other day with Flourish and Flourish Trace.
I am not competely sure on some of these plants so forgive me if I mislabeled anything. I want to look into a CO2 system eventually but I want to see if the tank will take off without it.
This is the most recent full tank shot and I have more of the livestock and plants in an album -> http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/index.php?media/albums/90g-planted-wonderland.1/
I plan to keep updating this thread with weekly tank shots to track the growth of the plants and whatnot. I would love any input you all have to offer!