A Bunch of Planted Tank Questions :)

[m0stUniQue]

So as you may or may not know soon I'm receiving a t5 ho light 2x24w 6500k, and I have a few questions. 1- As of now my substrate is pool filter sand and there is little to no chance of that changing, so with the above lighting, and substrate what kind of plants can I grow? I do not and most likely will not be using c02 now and if I do it will be way in the future, do I need to dose fertilizers? What kind of fertilizers should I use/what you recommend? and How often should I be dosing the ferts? How many hours a day should I be running my lights? I know its a lot of questions but whatever advice you have for a newbie to planted tanks would be great

 

[TankMan]

What size tank is it.

 

[m0stUniQue]

29 High
Stock:
2 African Butterfly Cichlid
1 Bolivian Ram
6 Emperor Tetra

 

[brennae]

I have sand substrate and t5 lighting on my 29g. I am using Flourish root tabs and the Flourish liquids started kit. So far so good. I am getting lush plants growth. I don't use CO2 either. I leave the lights on 10 to 12 hours per day. I also took the carbon out of my filter as recommended on this forum. It supposedly absorbs the fertilizer nutrients.

 

[m0stUniQue]

I have sand substrate and t5 lighting on my 29g. I am using Flourish root tabs and the Flourish liquids started kit. So far so good. I am getting lush plants growth. I don't use CO2 either. I leave the lights on 10 to 12 hours per day. I also took the carbon out of my filter as recommended on this forum. It supposedly absorbs the fertilizer nutrients.

What kind of plants do you have?

 

[TankMan]

Anubias. Java fern. Java moss. Crypts. Hornwort. Anacharis. Jungle Val. These are all low light plants.

For fertilizer, I use Seachem products, as well as Oscomote Plus fertilizer.

 

[brennae]

I'm including a pic of my tank. I have assorted crypts, giant hairgrass, dwarf hairgrass, water primrose,aponogeton and a few varieties of swords. The sword I know for sure is the argentine sword. I want to add anubias and a few other things. I have to t5's on my tank so I think I have moderate light.

 

[m0stUniQue]

Wow thanks for all your help what fish do you have in there? Do you know if there will be any adverse effects if I had my T5 lights before my plants?

 

[brennae]

I have a halfmoon Betta and 4 large mystery snails. So i'm sparsely stocked. I don't think it matters about the light being on the before the plants. I put the root tabs in right when I plants the plants.

I have a thread about a 10g walstad build, showing the tank I just put together.Because that one has soil there is supposed to be no need for ferts. I will be waiting impatiently to see how that works. lol

 

[m0stUniQue]

Thanks again
I'll have to go check out that thread

 

[Autumnsky]

I was instructed to put the tablets down toward the bottom as much as possible, helps with reducing/eliminating clouding.