Paul Kettless
Member
Hi all,
Like many I'm having a go at keeping my first planned planted tank, I did kinda have one a few years back but it was more communal fish with a few plants added as an after thought for good luck.
Advise generally is to go low tech at first, and I kind of get that, but I'm beginning to question why. Hopefully most newbies will have done enough research to have the basic understanding of the nitrogen cycle, light photosynthesis and the marco/micro nutrients a plant needs to flourish. And off course the importance of co2. Therefore, everything leads to a high tech set up to give our aquascapes the best possible rate of success.
I have been glued to George Farmers you tube channel of late and I have been watching quite a few videos where he has set up tanks for clients with zero knowledge of planted tanks, even one customer that had never had a fish tank before, yet he is doing so high tech, with high end gear. . Obvs he is providing the client with a step by step routine of maintenance etc. It has got me thinking here that should I be learning the correct way right from the start?
I appreciate the importance of the correct plant choice for a newbie, and maybe start with the easy ones and progress to more demanding species as knowledge and experience develops.
I am not suggesting for a second that reading a few articles, joining a forum and watching a few videos has made me an expert, but I have always been the kind of person that learns better with practical hands on than through theory.
I would appreciate your opinions on this, and maybe subjective points of view that I am not aware off. I can see that there are many experienced planted tank hobbiests on this site, and obviously choose to go low tech. I guess this is what I am asking as most probably they choose this route through trial and error. By the way, I am not a snowflake and easily offended so please don't hold back if you feel you have some blunt to say.
Thanks in advance for your input.
Kind regards
Paul
Like many I'm having a go at keeping my first planned planted tank, I did kinda have one a few years back but it was more communal fish with a few plants added as an after thought for good luck.
Advise generally is to go low tech at first, and I kind of get that, but I'm beginning to question why. Hopefully most newbies will have done enough research to have the basic understanding of the nitrogen cycle, light photosynthesis and the marco/micro nutrients a plant needs to flourish. And off course the importance of co2. Therefore, everything leads to a high tech set up to give our aquascapes the best possible rate of success.
I have been glued to George Farmers you tube channel of late and I have been watching quite a few videos where he has set up tanks for clients with zero knowledge of planted tanks, even one customer that had never had a fish tank before, yet he is doing so high tech, with high end gear. . Obvs he is providing the client with a step by step routine of maintenance etc. It has got me thinking here that should I be learning the correct way right from the start?
I appreciate the importance of the correct plant choice for a newbie, and maybe start with the easy ones and progress to more demanding species as knowledge and experience develops.
I am not suggesting for a second that reading a few articles, joining a forum and watching a few videos has made me an expert, but I have always been the kind of person that learns better with practical hands on than through theory.
I would appreciate your opinions on this, and maybe subjective points of view that I am not aware off. I can see that there are many experienced planted tank hobbiests on this site, and obviously choose to go low tech. I guess this is what I am asking as most probably they choose this route through trial and error. By the way, I am not a snowflake and easily offended so please don't hold back if you feel you have some blunt to say.
Thanks in advance for your input.
Kind regards
Paul