jameson_uk
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I have finally flooded my 30cm cube that will one day house a Betta.
I had always thought I would just stick a big standard sponge filter in there and hope the plants would do ok. I then picked up a JBL Cristalprofi M Greenline that was reduced at LFS which is sort of a matter filter (I run one of these in my 30cm shrimp cube). I then saw one of George Farmer's recent videos where he had a 30cm cube setup with a canister and a spin pipe (which also gets the heater out the tank and adds some nice glassware)
All got my thinking about what will be the best compromise for plants and a long finned Betta.
I don't plan on adding anything particularly demanding but started to think that the sponge filter isn't really going to generate enough flow to keep the plants happy? Current plan is to use a bit of Sumatra of redwood root in the centre of the tank with some anbubias or buce attached and some crypts and either Murdannia keisak or Hygrophila 'Siamensis 53B' and plenty of floaters.
Thoughts on what I should go with?
I had always thought I would just stick a big standard sponge filter in there and hope the plants would do ok. I then picked up a JBL Cristalprofi M Greenline that was reduced at LFS which is sort of a matter filter (I run one of these in my 30cm shrimp cube). I then saw one of George Farmer's recent videos where he had a 30cm cube setup with a canister and a spin pipe (which also gets the heater out the tank and adds some nice glassware)
All got my thinking about what will be the best compromise for plants and a long finned Betta.
I don't plan on adding anything particularly demanding but started to think that the sponge filter isn't really going to generate enough flow to keep the plants happy? Current plan is to use a bit of Sumatra of redwood root in the centre of the tank with some anbubias or buce attached and some crypts and either Murdannia keisak or Hygrophila 'Siamensis 53B' and plenty of floaters.
Thoughts on what I should go with?