Gringo
Seedling
Hello all, here's a little about me,
I've had an aquarium now for 2 years, started with a 60L tank then a year later bought a Marina Vue 87. It has a sand substrate, originally put some amazon swords and crypts in but battled algae problems then sort of just gave up on them until a few weeks ago when i decided it will not get the better of me. I got some root tabs, dwarf water lettuce, dwarf sagittaria and 2 anubias, dosed carbon for a week which did wonders and then eventually stopped the carbon and setup a diy CO2 kit as a temporary measure which has helped bring co2 to a decent level although I might go back to dosing carbon afterwards, the only reason i like the co2 is that its lowering my ph now, normally its 8 with kh 6, although i do shut it down before lights go off I'm just concerned about the ph fluctuating.
Anyway, the water lettuce is growing well but unsure about the sagittaria, the anubias has a small amount of algae growing on it so just trying to work that one out now, and while that's all going on I'm planning on upgrading tank to a bigger one, something in the region of 130L, Eheim vivaline 126, Aqua one aquavogue 130 and Fluval flex 123 stand out at the moment, I'll be using an external canister filter which I'm already running in the current setup to colonise the bacteria ready for new tank eventually, in this tank I'd like to run low to medium lights and undecided whether to soil and cap the substrate or just new sand again with tabs.
Current occupants are
4 Albino Cory's
4 Platys
2 Cryptoheros Nanoluteus
I've had an aquarium now for 2 years, started with a 60L tank then a year later bought a Marina Vue 87. It has a sand substrate, originally put some amazon swords and crypts in but battled algae problems then sort of just gave up on them until a few weeks ago when i decided it will not get the better of me. I got some root tabs, dwarf water lettuce, dwarf sagittaria and 2 anubias, dosed carbon for a week which did wonders and then eventually stopped the carbon and setup a diy CO2 kit as a temporary measure which has helped bring co2 to a decent level although I might go back to dosing carbon afterwards, the only reason i like the co2 is that its lowering my ph now, normally its 8 with kh 6, although i do shut it down before lights go off I'm just concerned about the ph fluctuating.
Anyway, the water lettuce is growing well but unsure about the sagittaria, the anubias has a small amount of algae growing on it so just trying to work that one out now, and while that's all going on I'm planning on upgrading tank to a bigger one, something in the region of 130L, Eheim vivaline 126, Aqua one aquavogue 130 and Fluval flex 123 stand out at the moment, I'll be using an external canister filter which I'm already running in the current setup to colonise the bacteria ready for new tank eventually, in this tank I'd like to run low to medium lights and undecided whether to soil and cap the substrate or just new sand again with tabs.
Current occupants are
4 Albino Cory's
4 Platys
2 Cryptoheros Nanoluteus