Pico Planted? Help please, as I want to get materials ASAP

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skiptomyzoo

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12x6x6 inches. 1.87 gallons. Was going to do a pico reef, but decided (pico) planted would be something I havn't done yet.

C02- was going to DIY but was given a nutrafin one for free which is pretty much the same thing, should I use a smaller bottle though bc I'm not even doing 2 gallons, or mix less baking soda, yeast, and sugar bc of the size?

Fertilizer- the nutrafin came with liquid 'plant grow', which has Nitrogen, Iron, Maganese, Zinc, Boron, and Molybdate..are these all the elements needed, or are there more?

Substrate- Anywhere I can pick up local that would most likely have it?Reason being I don't need much, if at all, depending on plants available for this tank size.

Lighting- Going to just run a 10k cheap fixture from home depot or such, using the formula I got 333.33 which is plenty for any plant's lighting requirement

Plants- What work in here? I have a rough idea from another site, but I'd like input.

Filteration- AC20 good? I also have an AC50, which if modded for SW would but in this application I am guessing would be too much flow?

Stocking- Maybe two cherry shrimp nothing major.

Please help with the questions, thanks.
If I'm missing anything, please point that out too.
Thanks in advance,
Unannon
 
I am starting 2g planted set-up myself. My plants are going to be dwarf hair grass, and baby tears and 2 marimo moss balls. For substrate my wife wants blue sand, but I am trying to talk her into black flourite. The lighting that came with the tank is a 12 watt halogen bulb. I am going to try this for a while and see what happens. For dosing I am going to use excel for carbon and I am try to find a good dry EI regiment for a 2 gallon tank. For filtration I will be using a red sea hang on filter that pumps 15gph. That will give us a 7.5 turn over rate which should be great and not cause to much gas off. For live stock I am using 1 flower shrimp and one otto for algae purposes. And maybe 2-3 cardinal tetra's.---------sorry I could not really answer your questions. But if it helps this is what I have came up with.
 
thanks.
anyone else? I went to the hardware store and the most I could find was 4500k. Most lights didnt have ratings on them. Any suggestions?
 
Pico pretty much means very small. Nano has come to mean just about anything between 2-10 gallons. While a ten gallon is not considered nano for freshwater, to do a reef tank in a ten gallon is considered to be a nano reef. Pico seems to refer to anything under two gallons.
 
I have an 8 inch X 8 inch cube that is planted. It runs two 13 watt power compacts (coralife mini-might) and a red sea nano filter. I am using a mix of flourite and eco complete. Dosing consists of excel and seachem potassium. The water is ro/di with seachem's alkaline buffer added to raise the ph/kh and Brightwell Aquatics Blackwater added for Gh and trace elements. Though the plants don't grow like they do in my larger tank which runs co2, they seem to do pretty well.
 
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