johnski
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- 29 Jul 2008
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Well, it's been a while, but I seem to have regained the urge to plant my tank up again. After running a 40gal "high tech" with T5's, pressurized CO2 and the likes many years back for about a year or so, I eventually gave it up due to an ongoing battle with algae and finding the time to commit to it.
The tank went in the shed, the lights, canister filter, CO2 and other bits all went on ebay and I downgraded to a small tank and gave away a chunk of my livestock and plants. I kept a small amount of plants which are somehow still alive to this day, some 4? years later. Even some of the fish themselves are around 6-7 years old, but are slowly dying off due to what I guess is old age.
So, my plan now is to run a low cost DIY CO2 setup in my smaller tank and pray that all goes well. I have lost all memory of plant names, types, etc, so hopefully you all could suggest some easy going plants for me.
What I'm running with now (pic below) is just a really basic 12gal(UK) setup consisting of a cheap internal filter, a few Iwagumi? rocks, an 18w bulb with reflector, eco-complete substrate which I assume has 0 nutrients left it in at its age, and a lump of bog wood. I unfortunately had to throw away my Redmoor wood as it started to rot.
Really nothing special, but hopefully with your guidance I can turn it into something half decent.
Obviously I need a fair few plants to fill out the tank as its so bare, so if you could recommend me some good, hardy background plants, and some nice mid ground and foreground that would be good for my setup, I'd really appreciate it. I quite like the "jungle" style tanks, but with a relatively open foreground. Also open to suggestions/constructive criticism on layout and pretty much everything.
Anyway, this has ended up way longer than I expected, so Ill cut it here and save you all the boredom of reading even more my drivel lol.
Thanks for taking the time to read, and I will keep updated with my progress.
The tank went in the shed, the lights, canister filter, CO2 and other bits all went on ebay and I downgraded to a small tank and gave away a chunk of my livestock and plants. I kept a small amount of plants which are somehow still alive to this day, some 4? years later. Even some of the fish themselves are around 6-7 years old, but are slowly dying off due to what I guess is old age.
So, my plan now is to run a low cost DIY CO2 setup in my smaller tank and pray that all goes well. I have lost all memory of plant names, types, etc, so hopefully you all could suggest some easy going plants for me.
What I'm running with now (pic below) is just a really basic 12gal(UK) setup consisting of a cheap internal filter, a few Iwagumi? rocks, an 18w bulb with reflector, eco-complete substrate which I assume has 0 nutrients left it in at its age, and a lump of bog wood. I unfortunately had to throw away my Redmoor wood as it started to rot.
Really nothing special, but hopefully with your guidance I can turn it into something half decent.
Obviously I need a fair few plants to fill out the tank as its so bare, so if you could recommend me some good, hardy background plants, and some nice mid ground and foreground that would be good for my setup, I'd really appreciate it. I quite like the "jungle" style tanks, but with a relatively open foreground. Also open to suggestions/constructive criticism on layout and pretty much everything.
Anyway, this has ended up way longer than I expected, so Ill cut it here and save you all the boredom of reading even more my drivel lol.
Thanks for taking the time to read, and I will keep updated with my progress.