Claire
Member
Hi all,
I currently have a 5x2x2 marine tank with sump. I am in the process of selling all the livestock as we are moving house and I don’t want the stress of moving all that along with everything else on the day. Our new house needs some renovations but once they are done I plan to set the tank up again but likely as freshwater for a change.
I have kept low and high tech planted tanks in the past but they were more “normal” sized, biggest being a 3 foot juwel vision.
I was just wondering if anyone had any pearls of wisdom for running a big freshwater tank in terms of dissolving CO2 and avoiding gassing off lots of CO2 in the sump, best flow etc. I have plenty of big wavemakers (I have 3 MP40s at the moment) and a return pump capable of packing a decent punch if needed, it’s DC though so can tune right down as well. I have dosing pumps that I’ll use for dosing ferts. I have an Evergrow IT5012 LED unit that I can hopefully turn blues off totally to give a freshwater look.
I hope to have a natural style aquarium with densely planted jungle type scape. Probably mainly rhizome plants rather than stems to avoid too much pruning. Then thinking a small group of rams, either German blue or Bolivian along with shoals of rummynose, cardinals and hatchets. Dunno! Stocking suggestions also welcome!!
I am in central Scotland - where is best to get large pieces of hardscape? Contemplating phoning someone like aquarium gardens to see if they can put something together at their shop and then just send it up as we’re quite limited here for good shops.
I currently have a 5x2x2 marine tank with sump. I am in the process of selling all the livestock as we are moving house and I don’t want the stress of moving all that along with everything else on the day. Our new house needs some renovations but once they are done I plan to set the tank up again but likely as freshwater for a change.
I have kept low and high tech planted tanks in the past but they were more “normal” sized, biggest being a 3 foot juwel vision.
I was just wondering if anyone had any pearls of wisdom for running a big freshwater tank in terms of dissolving CO2 and avoiding gassing off lots of CO2 in the sump, best flow etc. I have plenty of big wavemakers (I have 3 MP40s at the moment) and a return pump capable of packing a decent punch if needed, it’s DC though so can tune right down as well. I have dosing pumps that I’ll use for dosing ferts. I have an Evergrow IT5012 LED unit that I can hopefully turn blues off totally to give a freshwater look.
I hope to have a natural style aquarium with densely planted jungle type scape. Probably mainly rhizome plants rather than stems to avoid too much pruning. Then thinking a small group of rams, either German blue or Bolivian along with shoals of rummynose, cardinals and hatchets. Dunno! Stocking suggestions also welcome!!
I am in central Scotland - where is best to get large pieces of hardscape? Contemplating phoning someone like aquarium gardens to see if they can put something together at their shop and then just send it up as we’re quite limited here for good shops.