Thomas McMillan
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okay so i decided to stop lurking on the forum and start posting more. what a great time to start my first ever journal and planted tank!
i was going to wait until i got everything sorted like the filter and stuff but i couldn't resist. as i said, this is my first planted tank and it's going to be used for guppy breeding - i'm saving my 72l for when i get the hang of things. i'm aiming for this to be low maintenance as well.
let's have some stats:
tank: 35l (50cm long)
filter: fluval 105 (once i can be bothered to work out how to get it set up)
heater: 50w
lighting: 14w t8
substrate: ada aquasoil malaya on the right for planting and an open area of bright sand on the left
stocking: will be initially three of four guppies and eventually i would like to try my hand at breeding cherry shrimp in this tank aswell
plants: i'm aiming for a sort of 'forest' look, so quite grassy and bushy. i was thinking of rotala green back right, anumbias, moss, narrow fern and bolbitis attatched to the wood and crypts (parva and wendtii towards the back foreground). i would also like to get some hairgrass in somewhere.
anyway, here's what i've come up with:
what do you think? as always i'm open to comments, suggestions or just a good chat
i was going to wait until i got everything sorted like the filter and stuff but i couldn't resist. as i said, this is my first planted tank and it's going to be used for guppy breeding - i'm saving my 72l for when i get the hang of things. i'm aiming for this to be low maintenance as well.
let's have some stats:
tank: 35l (50cm long)
filter: fluval 105 (once i can be bothered to work out how to get it set up)
heater: 50w
lighting: 14w t8
substrate: ada aquasoil malaya on the right for planting and an open area of bright sand on the left
stocking: will be initially three of four guppies and eventually i would like to try my hand at breeding cherry shrimp in this tank aswell
plants: i'm aiming for a sort of 'forest' look, so quite grassy and bushy. i was thinking of rotala green back right, anumbias, moss, narrow fern and bolbitis attatched to the wood and crypts (parva and wendtii towards the back foreground). i would also like to get some hairgrass in somewhere.
anyway, here's what i've come up with:
what do you think? as always i'm open to comments, suggestions or just a good chat