Hi, this will be a journal of my aquarium renewal. I came back to hobby after a few years, when I had 60L tank and full of novice mistakes. So, I decided to try what is somehow mainstream - qood looking small tank, lots of plants, good tech, CO2 etc.
I am not into hardscape and nature aquariums, cause my designs would suck, and when you do hardscape, it only looks good when you scale the plants to it - only small leafed looks good.
My first try didnt go well, so I decied to start again with learning from mistakes:
- in small tank with CO2, ferts etc you need to do water changes, I will do something like 30% twice a week after tank will be well runned.
- you need to know you water parameters...
- better to use powder type of soil in a small tank, and in my experience planting into japan soils sucks... I hope it will be better with Powder type.
My previous try is on barrreport: https://barrreport.com/threads/hi-guys-high-nitrates-issue.15415/
Tech -specs - OLD NEW
- 33L low-iron glass tank (30 x 30 x 35 cm)
- LED relector 15W 1450lm 6500K 10W 800lm 6000K
- Eheim classic 250 2213 (440L-hour), spraybar
[1L Seachem de*Nitrate, 250ml Seachem Matrix, some sponges up and down]
- Eheim Jager 50W heater
- Platinum Soil Black Powder substrate (cheaper kind of ADA Amazonia - tested in Polish here
- gravel sand
- no hardscape - root and black stones
- CO2 set, inline diffuser
Ferst/Chemistry
- Tropica Plant Growth Specialised Fertiliser
- liquid carbo each day?
- 30-40% waterchange twice a week
- Tetra Aquasafe
- Seachem Stability
Fish
- 1 Betta splendens Super Delta Blue/Red jumped out
- 20 Rasboras hengeli
Plants
Eleocharis parvulus
Rotala wallichii
Rotala russila
Limnophila sessiliflora
Pogostemon helferi
Echinodorus Rubin Narrow Leaf
Pistia stratiotes
Tap Water
Fe 0,03 mg/l
pH 7,44
Hardness 2,94 2-3,5 mmol/l
NH4+ ionts < 0,01 mg/l
NO3- 35,78 mg/l
NO2− < 0,00 mg/l
Chlorides 19,77 mg/l
Organic carbon 2,31 mg/l
Free Cl 0,04 mg/l
I am not into hardscape and nature aquariums, cause my designs would suck, and when you do hardscape, it only looks good when you scale the plants to it - only small leafed looks good.
My first try didnt go well, so I decied to start again with learning from mistakes:
- in small tank with CO2, ferts etc you need to do water changes, I will do something like 30% twice a week after tank will be well runned.
- you need to know you water parameters...
- better to use powder type of soil in a small tank, and in my experience planting into japan soils sucks... I hope it will be better with Powder type.
My previous try is on barrreport: https://barrreport.com/threads/hi-guys-high-nitrates-issue.15415/
Tech -specs - OLD NEW
- 33L low-iron glass tank (30 x 30 x 35 cm)
- LED relector 15W 1450lm 6500K 10W 800lm 6000K
- Eheim classic 250 2213 (440L-hour), spraybar
[1L Seachem de*Nitrate, 250ml Seachem Matrix, some sponges up and down]
- Eheim Jager 50W heater
- Platinum Soil Black Powder substrate (cheaper kind of ADA Amazonia - tested in Polish here
- gravel sand
- no hardscape - root and black stones
- CO2 set, inline diffuser
Ferst/Chemistry
- Tropica Plant Growth Specialised Fertiliser
- liquid carbo each day?
- 30-40% waterchange twice a week
- Tetra Aquasafe
- Seachem Stability
Fish
- 1 Betta splendens Super Delta Blue/Red jumped out
- 20 Rasboras hengeli
Plants
Eleocharis parvulus
Rotala wallichii
Rotala russila
Limnophila sessiliflora
Pogostemon helferi
Echinodorus Rubin Narrow Leaf
Pistia stratiotes
Tap Water
Fe 0,03 mg/l
pH 7,44
Hardness 2,94 2-3,5 mmol/l
NH4+ ionts < 0,01 mg/l
NO3- 35,78 mg/l
NO2− < 0,00 mg/l
Chlorides 19,77 mg/l
Organic carbon 2,31 mg/l
Free Cl 0,04 mg/l
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