Recent content by Sneezy

I have not been adding any CO2, liquid or otherwise. Is it necessary this early on? Aiming for a very low tech/easy upkeep setup since I don't have any experience with planted tanks and a limited budget. I will do that water change first thing tomorrow though and see what happens. Thank you...

Our tap water is pretty good I think - tested at about 7.0 ph, tank tested at over 8.5. I haven't done any water changes in the tank yet (I was thinking water changes wouldn't be as necessary with just plants in the tank?) but was thinking to do one tomorrow to see what that did to the overall...

Thought I had a decent idea of what I was getting into but now it's become clear that I didn't!:( Set up an empty 30 gallon five days ago, laid in eco-complete, added a handful of plants from petsmart (local fish stores are very limited in my neck of the woods) along with fertilizer tabs and...

Oh good, so there are a handful that should work! Thanks :D I'm getting some eco-complete substrate for the tank, would that still need the root tabs added for crypts? (And fertilizer for any other plants as well I'm assuming?)

Hello! I've currently got an empty 29 gallon tank with an eclipse hood/filter that I'd like to put to use. I don't have any previous experience with planted tanks but they look so gorgeous I promised myself that I would give one a try if I ever got my tank up and running again, but I'd prefer...