Doug Sykes
New Member
Hi, following on from my first post a few weeks ago, think I can loose my title of "qualified plant killer".
My plants are surviving. Think thriving is going a bit far, but I'll take surviving as a huge promotion.
Well since then, I've acquired another two tanks (not sure when I need to book myself into rehab, addiction is certainly getting hold) and I'm still unsure what to do with them.
Artificial is an option for the larger tank, need to check again, but think it's in the 60litre area. It has a fixed solid lid and no light.
But I'm thinking I could put it in front of my south facing window, and at least temporarily use it to grow live plants under natural light, before harvesting the plants to bulk up my larger tank.
I know windows are not recommended, for algae reasons, and fish sunburn etc. So was thinking of snails, a few corydora fish, shrimp, basically algae eaters. Enough to stop me overloading with algae, but hopefully growing a good crop of plants I could transplant.
Plan was to put the tank and water in position with a thermometer to guage water temperatures.
Maybe window tint to keep the worst of the glare out?
Any thoughts?
Potentially viable? Or non starter?
My plants are surviving. Think thriving is going a bit far, but I'll take surviving as a huge promotion.
Well since then, I've acquired another two tanks (not sure when I need to book myself into rehab, addiction is certainly getting hold) and I'm still unsure what to do with them.
Artificial is an option for the larger tank, need to check again, but think it's in the 60litre area. It has a fixed solid lid and no light.
But I'm thinking I could put it in front of my south facing window, and at least temporarily use it to grow live plants under natural light, before harvesting the plants to bulk up my larger tank.
I know windows are not recommended, for algae reasons, and fish sunburn etc. So was thinking of snails, a few corydora fish, shrimp, basically algae eaters. Enough to stop me overloading with algae, but hopefully growing a good crop of plants I could transplant.
Plan was to put the tank and water in position with a thermometer to guage water temperatures.
Maybe window tint to keep the worst of the glare out?
Any thoughts?
Potentially viable? Or non starter?