Planted 75 ideas/suggestions

[tyjo1334]

Here it is it currently houses a 6.5" male albino bristlenose and a 5" longfin male bristlenose. Plants are fed with 4 t5 bulbs, flourish root tabs, flourish substrate, flourish and flourish excel liquid. Looking to get 5 clown loaches this weekend. Anymore suggestions?

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[MyGiants]

More plants

 

[cichlid_king]

I love that driftwood. Looks very nice. I would put a few more plants in too

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[Ripples]

From what I know, if that's H.C it's going to melt away if you don't have any CO2 injections. If you want to keep it alive (if it starts dying) remove your bubblers and stock up more fish, it would increase your dissolved CO2 level in the water for the plants. Try Glossostigma as a carpet plant if that's what you're aiming for, H.C is too hard to care for. Nice tank nonetheless.

 

[tyjo1334]

Which plant is H.C.? And what is the best way to make all of these plants THRIVE? I want a JUNGLE in my tank. I have removed the aerator and am creating surface agitation with the output of my fx5. One output angle up agitating the surface for the livelihood of the fish and one angled down. Do you recommend I add 1 or 2 small power heads? I only use flourish tabs, flourish excel liquid and flourish liquid and I used the flourish planted substrate in only the areas that are planted. Is there any other additives, substrate, etc. that will better benefit my tank to achieve a pure thriving underwater jungle. I am buying 5x 3" clown loaches tomorrow to add to the tank and also on the look out on sunday as well for a gold nugget pleco and large male albino long fin bristlenose and/or bushynose Pleco. Are their any fish recommendations, plant recommendations? I also have an additional dual HO t5 fixture I can add as well if that will benefit to have 6x HO T5 as opposed to the current 4x HO T5's I'm running. Also what is the recommended bulbs to be running? And the recommended amount of time to be running these lights on/off per day?


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[tyjo1334]

Current bulbs are Coralife 10,000k T5 HO and GLO POWER-GLO 18,000k T5 HO on the rear 48" GLO dual T5 fixture of the tank. And on the front 48" GLO dual T5 fixture I am running 2x GLO LIFE-GLO T5 HO bulbs and I cannot find the exact degrees/kelvin that the LIFEGLO bulbs run at.


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[tyjo1334]

I also re-arranged a couple established planted pieces of drift wood closer to the light as I believe these specific plants strive for high lighting and with them being wedged together between 2 branches of my large drift wood hopefully it will spread all over the large drift wood as well. Let me know your expert opinions everyone. Are my bulbs okay or should I change for best results? Should I add an additional dual T5 fixture?


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[robmcd]

I would suggest a black background. Great looking tank so far.

 

[benzjamin13]

HC refers to the Dwarf Baby Tears. They can be a pain to keep alive. They need high lighting, but they also need to have a lot of CO2. I've only seen them used as carpeting plants and never tied to just a piece of driftwood like that. IMO, I don't think that will work. I believe they need to be rooted to survive as well. I could be wrong as I've seen them attached to rocks before as well.

 

[tyjo1334]

Why would you suggest a black background is there actual benefits for the plants with this feature? Or just cosmetic to add a POP affect to the colors in the tank?


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