shady
New Member
Hi all, not sure if this is the right place to ask so many questions but it’s a good place to start. I am currently in the process of changing my fish room from marine (sorry) to freshwater. I used to have a nano planted tank years ago and so after 15 years of marine I’m changing back.
Anyway , if I can find a way to download the video of my fish room this will be a lot clearer.
Firstly the whole system is sumped and therefore I am looking into using K1 filter media as the main filter , this will flow through a series of sponges into the return section.
(1) Is K1 ok to use, at most the system will be over 1000 ltrs and only hold about a dozen bettas and a few cardinal tetras so nitrate won’t be that high ( especially as I will have 13 planted tanks all plumbed in together)
(2) Secondly the tanks are currently divided into 3section. I plan to have a fighter in each section, the question is would you try to do 1three foot planted tank with dividers in it or do it as three separate 1 foot tanks ? Not sure which way to go on this
(3)main question is currently all the tanks are painted blue on the sides and back, would you keep them blue or go black or try a smoked film or similar , which ever option I go for all the tanks would have to be the same otherwise my minor ocd would get the better of me.
(4) The tank on the left that was the seahorse tank would be used as a water change tank and filled with a fast growing plant to help alleviate algae growth hopefully, what’s the fastest growing / best plant to put in there , I was thinking some kind of hygrophyllia
(5) the lights over the tanks are 4x39w units. I take it these will be ok as the tanks are only 15 cm deep , probably overkill for some plants but I can turn 2 bulbs off if needed
I will try and get a video attached to this but did it doesn’t work don’t blame me lol
Anyway , if I can find a way to download the video of my fish room this will be a lot clearer.
Firstly the whole system is sumped and therefore I am looking into using K1 filter media as the main filter , this will flow through a series of sponges into the return section.
(1) Is K1 ok to use, at most the system will be over 1000 ltrs and only hold about a dozen bettas and a few cardinal tetras so nitrate won’t be that high ( especially as I will have 13 planted tanks all plumbed in together)
(2) Secondly the tanks are currently divided into 3section. I plan to have a fighter in each section, the question is would you try to do 1three foot planted tank with dividers in it or do it as three separate 1 foot tanks ? Not sure which way to go on this
(3)main question is currently all the tanks are painted blue on the sides and back, would you keep them blue or go black or try a smoked film or similar , which ever option I go for all the tanks would have to be the same otherwise my minor ocd would get the better of me.
(4) The tank on the left that was the seahorse tank would be used as a water change tank and filled with a fast growing plant to help alleviate algae growth hopefully, what’s the fastest growing / best plant to put in there , I was thinking some kind of hygrophyllia
(5) the lights over the tanks are 4x39w units. I take it these will be ok as the tanks are only 15 cm deep , probably overkill for some plants but I can turn 2 bulbs off if needed
I will try and get a video attached to this but did it doesn’t work don’t blame me lol