Couple questions.... anyone ever do heavy planting with peacocks (not bass). Tried it once before but I had a few Vic. Haps and some elec. bl. joh. in to toss it up but Once I would plant it heavy things would be torn up in a month. Do you have to plant way before you put fish back in?? Is gravel substrate fine?? I looked at some of my old pictures and the real plants look soooo much nicer but I'd like to do it again. One problem being....how much are the CO2 pumps? I'd rather stay away from that. Does the CO2 present problems for night time?? Shouldnt it be shut off at night? A couple of you guys had amazing planted aquariums.
Planting, replanting??
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If your refering to the plants being uprooted, there are a few tricks. They sell suction cup devices that hold to the bottom of your tank to hold plants in. You could put large hard to move rocks around the plants or buy the lead weight strips to place around your plants to keep them down. you couls hollow out portions of driftwood to use as a planter. There are a lot of other options for plants. There are lots of mosses and floating plants that can be used. It would just be another direction you can take a planted tank. Co2 is rather expensive. For smaller tanks a DIY co2 reactor can be made. Lighting is rather important also. What are your WPG? Gravel is fine but Ecocomplete is optimum for a planted tank.sleepyflight said:
On the tank I'd try to do it, I would probably need another light. I believe I'm only at about 1 W/gal....one strip light on a 55. Or I could glass top a 29 cuz the lighting would be cheaper than the 55. I don't have anywhere around here to get much other than wysteria, swords, moneywarts....the typical stuff like that. I want to get to a point of having mosses and such like the one dudes tank on here. One of my lfs used to carry a CO2 pump but they don't anymore so I dont' know prices on it either. Other problem being, I don't think I have an empty tank to take the fish out of whatever I'd plant so that kinda negates putting down a fert. substrate. I get the basics but I've never enjoyed going basic, I'd rather people look at it and go "damn, thats sexy" Can't remember who but props to whoever posted the pic of thier tank with moss growing on driftwood!!! Any places to order from you know of?? For plants or CO2 prices???