aveldina
Aquarium Advice Regular
Well here we go.. getting myself into trouble again.
This is sitting on my living room floor at the moment. Dan and I decided to combine our love for planted tanks and bettas into a new 5.5 gallon project and brought this home this past weekend. I still need to order a heater and find a spot to set it up before filling/cycling it.
I've seen lots of incredible 5G planted projects here and am still fairly new to keeping planted tanks. I'm curious what many of you are using for a light for your small planted tank. I've looked into the 2x9W coralife and the CurrentUSA 12" light, but they are a bit pricey at the moment. I also have no idea how I'd mount the 9" coralife. The tank will have a screen as I'd like to keep my cat and betta fish separated. I'd like to set up something a bit cheaper for a light and look at upgrading to a CL or Current one a bit later. I saw that the WPG rule doesn't really work for tanks this size, so 18W would be medium-ish? Suggestions?
Currently I'm just using florish comprehensive and excel in my 36G aquarium, it's not high light so that works out fine. I'd love to try CO2 and ordering dry/powder ferts for this tank but I'm completely new to both. I'm assuming you use some kind of test kit to correctly fertilize and set the CO2.. what do you recommend? Is DIY CO2 the only way to go for a tank like this? I would like to try a high light/CO2 combo, but need to get a feel for how much light and how much CO2 I'd need first.
If anyone has any start up advice that would be amazing, Thanks!!!
Edit: I believe I had meant to post this under Freshwater - Planted Tanks as it's not up and running yet, if you're a mod, feel free to move it.
This is sitting on my living room floor at the moment. Dan and I decided to combine our love for planted tanks and bettas into a new 5.5 gallon project and brought this home this past weekend. I still need to order a heater and find a spot to set it up before filling/cycling it.
I've seen lots of incredible 5G planted projects here and am still fairly new to keeping planted tanks. I'm curious what many of you are using for a light for your small planted tank. I've looked into the 2x9W coralife and the CurrentUSA 12" light, but they are a bit pricey at the moment. I also have no idea how I'd mount the 9" coralife. The tank will have a screen as I'd like to keep my cat and betta fish separated. I'd like to set up something a bit cheaper for a light and look at upgrading to a CL or Current one a bit later. I saw that the WPG rule doesn't really work for tanks this size, so 18W would be medium-ish? Suggestions?
Currently I'm just using florish comprehensive and excel in my 36G aquarium, it's not high light so that works out fine. I'd love to try CO2 and ordering dry/powder ferts for this tank but I'm completely new to both. I'm assuming you use some kind of test kit to correctly fertilize and set the CO2.. what do you recommend? Is DIY CO2 the only way to go for a tank like this? I would like to try a high light/CO2 combo, but need to get a feel for how much light and how much CO2 I'd need first.
If anyone has any start up advice that would be amazing, Thanks!!!
Edit: I believe I had meant to post this under Freshwater - Planted Tanks as it's not up and running yet, if you're a mod, feel free to move it.