Hey here is my planted tank build, apparently I bought a ton of dwarf hair grass (way too much!) so I haven't even been able to plant it all because my hand hurts and so does my back! But I do want to point out that these new Petsmart bags are providing some plants in excellent condition! Even better than the LFS! So here's the pics! I'll post the complete submersion and completely planted tank tomorrow!
10 Gallon High Light, Substrate, CO2, Planted!
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Fishandmusic81
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MC1973 said:
I can tell it's gonna turn out nice
Even right now the dark substrate with a few rocks and the dwarf hair grass looks simple but very elegant
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So I finished planting most of the stuff, I got sick of it and threw out the smaller runners that came with it, I think this should be enough, and I will leave some space in case I decide to plant something else.
I have 2 CO2 ladders, they were on sale at petsmart for clearance at like $7 bucks each, a steal (they're usually like $35!). My substrate is fluorite, and I got these cool mexican river stones at home depot for like 5 bucks for a giant bag of hand sized stones. I just have a tetra 10i on there to generate water flow. I have 2 28W bulbs over this as well, I think they are 5500K.
I'm dosing Fluorish Excel as well as some ferts that came with the whole CO2 setup.
P.S. if you do decide to buy the CO2 setup, the packets that it comes with are useless and stop working after like a week. I did my own yeast mixture.
Anyways let me know what you think!
Also, the plants in the far right hand corner is giant hair grass. I wanted an underwater lawn lol.
So I finished planting most of the stuff, I got sick of it and threw out the smaller runners that came with it, I think this should be enough, and I will leave some space in case I decide to plant something else.
I have 2 CO2 ladders, they were on sale at petsmart for clearance at like $7 bucks each, a steal (they're usually like $35!). My substrate is fluorite, and I got these cool mexican river stones at home depot for like 5 bucks for a giant bag of hand sized stones. I just have a tetra 10i on there to generate water flow. I have 2 28W bulbs over this as well, I think they are 5500K.
I'm dosing Fluorish Excel as well as some ferts that came with the whole CO2 setup.
P.S. if you do decide to buy the CO2 setup, the packets that it comes with are useless and stop working after like a week. I did my own yeast mixture.
Anyways let me know what you think!
Also, the plants in the far right hand corner is giant hair grass. I wanted an underwater lawn lol.
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Thanks Fishandmusic81!
I'm super excited for this because it's the first time I've ever gone all out and tried to do a planted tank. In the past I've done some small things like amazon swords or anubias, but this time I'm trying to go high tech. Let me know what you think, I'll be doing weekly photo updates!
Yeah, I usually don't buy from them because their plants were sold in these plastic tubes and basically half of them are dried up and dead
They're doing this new thing where they seal it in a bag and sell it, so you don't have to deal with the wool that potted plants come in. I absolutely hate the wool haha.
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Give that tank some time and it will look stunning! Honestly it already looks good, but it will look even better
Give that tank some time and it will look stunning! Honestly it already looks good, but it will look even better
Thanks!
I'm not sure how much time it takes for grass plants to start coming in with runners and acclimate. So I'll give it a month or so and see how it goes
