Plant Questions for a 29g

[Garofoli]

Hello,
I am hoping to switch my tank over to a planted tank. As of now I have one very nice piece of real driftwood and several fake plants. First I am looking into fertilizers for my tank. I saw an advertisement for this... http://seachem.com/products/product_pages/Flourite.html This looks like nice substrate. How many pounds/bags of this do I need for 2-3 inches on the bottom of my 29g tank? Just so you know i have 1x65 watt lighting and It will be on a timer to be on for 8 (Is that long enough?) hours a day. So my last question is how do you propagate cabomba or sword plants? Thanks.

 

[Haag13]

I started my 29g planted tank with a flourite substrate and a 65w light as well. I think I used 2 bags of flourite. Seachem's site says "Recommended use is 1 kg (2 lbs) for approximately each 200 cm2 (31 in2) of tank bottom at a depth of 5 cm (2 in)." Based on that, your 29g tank should have 360 square inches of tank bottom(30X12), and 360 divided by 31 is about 11.6. 11.6 times the 2lbs would give you 23.2 pounds of flourite for a depth of 2" in your tank. So if you want 3" just add another half of that amount. 23.2 plus 11.6 equals 34.8lb of flourite so a little more than 2 bags will give you 3" of depth. Now based on that, I think I've way over complicated this and confused the SH*T out of everyone, so I'm done. Goodluck!!
p.s. I leave my lights on for 12 hours a day and cabomba is a stem plant so just cut it and plant it to propagate it.

 

[Garofoli]

Very Helpful, Thank you. I'm confused on propogating. Are you saying just take scissors and just cut off the top and leave that part of the stem just sitting on the ground?

To confirm just 2 bags = 30lbs = what I should get? Thanks.

 

[Haag13]

If you have a stem of cabomba growing and you cut it in half, plant the piece you cut off and leave the other half as it was, both will live and continue to grow and you will then have two stems of cabomba.