Light should be good. Seems to be a similar brightness to the aquasky.
Scaping
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AS long as you are going to Tractor Supply you might also look at SafeTsorb. It looks great and is awesome for growing plants. It is cheap and comes in a redish clay color, which is pretty close to the garnet red sand that you were looking that.
On a side note, I drove through Ramona on Sunday. I need to remember to stop by the Tractor Supply place the next time that I pass through.
On a side note, I drove through Ramona on Sunday. I need to remember to stop by the Tractor Supply place the next time that I pass through.
Try posting a pic of the plant, maybe we can ID.
Stocking sounds good, I have one of the golden Anubias nana, it looks great. Grows pretty fast for anubias too!
Stocking sounds good, I have one of the golden Anubias nana, it looks great. Grows pretty fast for anubias too!
Oh yeah, while I was up there I grabbed a TON of dead manzanita from one of the upper drainages. Just a thought for your hardscape. It looks great in my tanks.
Sorry for the photo bombers.
How do you clean it? Where did you pick it up? Does manzanita alter anything? Do you think it would look nice in my black sand and green plant scape? Is it legal to take anything?
I recognize that plant but don’t remember the name.
The wood pictured in my tank is manzanita. It stained a bit but went away after a few weeks and water changes. Doesn’t affect ph at all. I just cleaned mine by running under water for a bit…
The plant looks like ludwigia repens.
Manzanita is legal to gather as long as it is not rooted into the ground. I know of some arroyos up off the Sunrise highway that are loaded with dead manzanita.
I use it in all of my tanks. It doesn't alter water parameters and barely leeches tannins.
I broke a piece off and am soaking it in my platy colony tank. I didn't even bother rinsing it off, I just wedged it in. Everything is fine so far and the shrimp are loving grazing on it.
Typically I just hose it off and drop it in my tanks. When you gather it from the wild there aren't any chemicals or pesticides to contaminate it.
A few days after adding, this is the extent of the staining:
Been about a year now. I don’t have any good pics that show it now that lots of bark has peeled and it’s gotten algaed over. Will post one later.
