75 gallon planted tank journal.

[fishhead0103666]

I say go for it, time for a planted tank again.

I’m just thinking out loud here but just imagine what I’m about to describe.
You get a 55 gallon tank and get a couple hundred pieces of very large pothos, think 4 feet long each. Now you drill a hole near the top of one side of the tank and a hole near the bottom of the other side (the 12” long side). Now what you’re gonna do is attach a pump to the top hole and tubing going to another tank then you attatch another hose in the bottom hole going into the second tank. Make sure it doesn’t leak and plug the pump in and watch as the tank gets filled then empties at the other end back into the second tank. The oxygenated water flowing from tank 2 to tank 1 will provide oxygenated water to the roots of the pothos but also the nitrites and whatnot. Set up a lighting system above tank 1 so the pothos will continue to grow.

The idea is that dirty tank water will be pulled from the main tank into the pothos tank where the pothos will “clean” the water then return it.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

I say go for it, time for a planted tank again.

I’m just thinking out loud here but just imagine what I’m about to describe.
You get a 55 gallon tank and get a couple hundred pieces of very large pothos, think 4 feet long each. Now you drill a hole near the top of one side of the tank and a hole near the bottom of the other side (the 12” long side). Now what you’re gonna do is attach a pump to the top hole and tubing going to another tank then you attatch another hose in the bottom hole going into the second tank. Make sure it doesn’t leak and plug the pump in and watch as the tank gets filled then empties at the other end back into the second tank. The oxygenated water flowing from tank 2 to tank 1 will provide oxygenated water to the roots of the pothos but also the nitrites and whatnot. Set up a lighting system above tank 1 so the pothos will continue to grow.

The idea is that dirty tank water will be pulled from the main tank into the pothos tank where the pothos will “clean” the water then return it.

It would also protect plants from marauding SDs

 

[BichirKing]

that 2 tank set up is basically what I had except... the top tank was a 4 level Bakki shower style filter system with pothos growing out of each level.

 

[Kittiee Katt]

Page 1 you mentioned dollars and plants, I'll tell you how I got live plants to survive with my dollars - it took a looong time..

Step one, quite obviously obtain some dollars.
Step two, keep them in a tank with only fake plants for 5 or so years.
Step three, put live plants in and hope that the psychological damage is enough that they assume all plants from here on are fake.

While this wasn't my original plan, it worked quite well. My older dollars had never seen live plants for the first 5 years of their lives. I doubt you'd be as lucky as I was using this method though because your dollars have already got the taste for plants whereas mine had never seen them...

My younger dollars however destroy plants (added them while young to a planted tank) so I've had to take all the live ones out..

 

[fishhead0103666]

5 years? That’s between 1/3 and 1/4 of how long I’ve been alive. I can’t imagine waiting a year let alone 5 so that’s a no. Kinda ironic I got a 2.5 inch royal pleco which only grows an inch a year...

Anyway I’m more or less ok with the fact that I probably won’t be able to kee aquatic plants with them.

 

[Kittiee Katt]

5 years? That’s between 1/3 and 1/4 of how long I’ve been alive. I can’t imagine waiting a year let alone 5 so that’s a no. Kinda ironic I got a 2.5 inch royal pleco which only grows an inch a year...

Anyway I’m more or less ok with the fact that I probably won’t be able to kee aquatic plants with them.

Technically its exactly one fifth of the time I've been alive.

Good luck with the tank though, should look good once finished.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Thanks, I’ll make sure to let you know when it’s finally done in about a year I guess?