what's in the QT?

[jaws7777]

I hope so too.

Here's the site for seed. It is a relatively new SeaChem brand. The salt water LFS that is letting me special order, sells it. It is what they use for all of their reef tanks and to cycle new tanks. Although it can be used for fresh and/or salt water. The Owner of the LFS kindly gave me some plant Aquavitro bottles too. http://www.aquavitro.com/products/plant.html so I'll have to get some plants and try it out.

magpie , have you ever used Aquavitro or similar for your plants?

Which product would you use for the cycling

 

[Polyaddict86]

Okay. I know i've been on hiatus for a while getting my tanks disinfected and resealed in addition to the daily grind......and I get distracted really easily.....but
I think everything is back to "normal"
-my betta is feeling better
-put PFS in the 55gal freshwater.
- saltwater tank set back up to free up the 10gal QT, all tanks res).
-10 gal QT is ready for fish!

Decided to go with PFS and Aquaclear 110. Just have to fill the tank with water. I was planning on ordering either some giant danios or guppies. and some anubias probably. Then if those last a week, then order polys.

Glad you getting back in the poly bus.

 

[clm08k]

Glad you getting back in the poly bus.

me too. It's been WAYYYYY too long.
Instead I've just spent all day on the forums lol. Just placed my order for danios.

 

[magpie]

magpie , have you ever used Aquavitro or similar for your plants?

I haven't used their products - I just use a general fertilizer called Flourish by Seachem. I dose it every water change. I don't get into supplementing things like iron etc because I do low tech, so I just over time have kept plants that work well in my water with my lights, and don't repurchase ones that don't.

http://www.seachem.com/flourish.php

 

[Hendre]

I haven't used their products - I just use a general fertilizer called Flourish by Seachem. I dose it every water change. I don't get into supplementing things like iron etc because I do low tech, so I just over time have kept plants that work well in my water with my lights, and don't repurchase ones that don't.

http://www.seachem.com/flourish.php

I use i too and it works alright.

 

[clm08k]

I haven't used their products - I just use a general fertilizer called Flourish by Seachem. I dose it every water change. I don't get into supplementing things like iron etc because I do low tech, so I just over time have kept plants that work well in my water with my lights, and don't repurchase ones that don't.

http://www.seachem.com/flourish.php

thanks! Really appreciate the information about dosing it on water changes too. I'm gonna try the stuff I have first. Also like the keeping it low tech. Your "low tech" looks fantastic. And that's a good method of "weeding" out what plants to have. hehe lots of puns. I want to try to do something like that with anubias or some other plants that don't really require a lot of light. Do you have any recommends of plants that could work with pool sand?

 

[magpie]

I think most plants that would work with low light would work with sand. I'm not familiar with pool sand, but would assume it's not that different than regular sand? It's a bit harder to get things in sand when you first plant (they want to float away), and if you're actually planting things in the substrate you'll need to have like 1.5 inches or so of sand. If you go too deep you can get anaerobic pockets, but not too deep, with plant roots, should be fine. I also use malaysian trumpet snails to stir up the sand. I got an outbreak of them recently probably from overfeeding but they normally aren't really seen.

But anubias they don't need to be planted in the substrate!

I find Valisineria (jungle vals, they are the tall weedy ones that I cut back every week), Amazon sword, Crypts, Anubias, Java ferns are pretty easy to grow. And you know how I feel about floating plants.

I also supplement with root tabs for substrate plants every 3-4 months.

 

[clm08k]

I think most plants that would work with low light would work with sand. I'm not familiar with pool sand, but would assume it's not that different than regular sand? It's a bit harder to get things in sand when you first plant (they want to float away), and if you're actually planting things in the substrate you'll need to have like 1.5 inches or so of sand. If you go too deep you can get anaerobic pockets, but not too deep, with plant roots, should be fine. I also use malaysian trumpet snails to stir up the sand. I got an outbreak of them recently probably from overfeeding but they normally aren't really seen.

But anubias they don't need to be planted in the substrate!

I find Valisineria (jungle vals, they are the tall weedy ones that I cut back every week), Amazon sword, Crypts, Anubias, Java ferns are pretty easy to grow. And you know how I feel about floating plants.

I also supplement with root tabs for substrate plants every 3-4 months.

thanks so much for typing this up! Do you recommend the plant cups? The sand is about 2". I will order some plants this week. Will look into the Malaysian trumpet snails. If I can't find any Malaysian trumpet snails, do you have any other recommendations?

 

[magpie]

By plant cups, do you mean the ones they come in? I get rid of those.

MTS should be readily available in any LFS. They will probably give them to you for free.

 

[clm08k]