300 gallon planted tank help

[skjl47]

I don’t wanna spend hundreds on plants and then have them die due to not good enough lighting, I do believe that you can grow plants well using non aquarium lights but I don’t wanna take that risk,

Hello; I have been running planted tank setups for over 50 years. Too bad you do not believe me about the lights. Not a big deal to me as it is your tank and your money.
Hello; the image is an older one from back in Jan 2018. No expensive lights. No CO2. All live plants.
I only use ferts for the root feeders such as swords. The nitrogen cycle takes care of the other plants.
Good luck

 

[fisheatfish]

Thanks I am quite nervous to start it up and at the same time excited, I don’t really have a budget for this tank I wanna go all out to make it really nice, I found a couple extremely nice peices of drift wood and am wanting to go crazy with moss on them any suggestions on what kind of moss, also for dry fertilizer do you mean the little pill shaped ones that decinagrate over time? The filtration I am gonna use will be a fluval fx6 or fx5 not 100% on that yet

The pill you’re referring to are root tabs that go into the substrate for root feeder plants. Dry ferts are in the powder form where you dissolve in the water column or I dissolve in in a separate container and use as needed.

 

[fisheatfish]

Do these stocking ideas and plants seem good?
For fish- 3 pairs of angels, 20 Congo tetras, 20 rummy nose tetras, a pair of apistogramma redneck, 10 hillstream loaches, 2 females and 1 male German blue ram, 5 Siamese algae eaters and 4 rose line sharks. Any ideas on if I could put any puffers in that tank? And I am open to any more suggestions on fish or if some of these fish aren’t compatible please tell me.

For plants- lots of dwarf sag, cryptocoryne spiralis, jungle Val, anubias nana petit, Christmas moss, Java moss, Java fern, Monte Carlo and Japan clover. Not sure what other plants, open to suggestions Thanks

Here’s a visual of manzanita wood wrapped with java moss and dwarf sag carpet. Note...this is a 75 gal with high light and CO2. Moss will not come out thick and branch out as shown in the second pic under low light...rather, they will grow out stringy under low light and no CO2. A tank that size, I’d love a school of 50 or more roseline sharks minus the siamese algae eaters cuz they look so much like the sharks and go with a few bristlenose plecos.

 

[burntrubber]

300g is a lot of planted tank. If you feel that you need something easy to maintain then go for large and hardy plants like echinodorus , lotus, jungle val, big pieces of wood with java fern, bolbitis, anubias. Crypts are great for filling up space. They can go in the shade or out in the open.

 

[Jonathann04769]

The pill you’re referring to are root tabs that go into the substrate for root feeder plants. Dry ferts are in the powder form where you dissolve in the water column or I dissolve in in a separate container and use as needed.

Oh ok, any recommend brands?

 

[Jonathann04769]

300g is a lot of planted tank. If you feel that you need something easy to maintain then go for large and hardy plants like echinodorus , lotus, jungle val, big pieces of wood with java fern, bolbitis, anubias. Crypts are great for filling up space. They can go in the shade or out in the open.

Thankyou

 

[Jonathann04769]

Here’s a visual of manzanita wood wrapped with java moss and dwarf sag carpet. Note...this is a 75 gal with high light and CO2. Moss will not come out thick and branch out as shown in the second pic under low light...rather, they will grow out stringy under low light and no CO2. A tank that size, I’d love a school of 50 or more roseline sharks minus the siamese algae eaters cuz they look so much like the sharks and go with a few bristlenose plecos. View attachment 1327503View attachment 1327504

So you are thinking none of the other fish I mentioned just roseline sharks

 

[fisheatfish]

Oh ok, any recommend brands?

I did mention Green Leaf Aquarium Fertilizers (GLA)

 

[fisheatfish]

So you are thinking none of the other fish I mentioned just roseline sharks

That's only my taste. You should go with what you like. For me, the plants are the focal points and fish becomes accents.

 

[burntrubber]

Best looking fish for a planted tank are still the rainbow fish. Still a matter of preference. Some people find them gaudy.