trennamw
Aquarium Advice Addict
After a few rough months with fin rot and my first fishless cycle going nowhere for a month, I decided to put plastic plants in. Didn't want yet another variable in water chemistry and so on. Or more and more and more expense!!
But now the fishless cycle is almost finished ... And I'm thinking again.
So here are my concerns ... Tank is a 29 gallon Marineland with LED, I'm told it supports low light plants. It has a 200gph filter and a 175gph power head bubbling away. Substrate is beach sand and gravel (half and half but all the gravel went to the bottom).
Fish will likely be ...
Danios
Dwarf pencilfish
Dwarf loaches
Dwarf cories
So. My worries ...
The plants won't stay in the sand. I hear there are plugs but don't they have to be replaced?
Not enough light (room is dark) LEDs are 990 lux apparently.
Not enough co2
Having to add more to the water (flourish?)
My water is super soft so I do have crushed coral and some other things to get the pH stable.
But now the fishless cycle is almost finished ... And I'm thinking again.
So here are my concerns ... Tank is a 29 gallon Marineland with LED, I'm told it supports low light plants. It has a 200gph filter and a 175gph power head bubbling away. Substrate is beach sand and gravel (half and half but all the gravel went to the bottom).
Fish will likely be ...
Danios
Dwarf pencilfish
Dwarf loaches
Dwarf cories
So. My worries ...
The plants won't stay in the sand. I hear there are plugs but don't they have to be replaced?
Not enough light (room is dark) LEDs are 990 lux apparently.
Not enough co2
Having to add more to the water (flourish?)
My water is super soft so I do have crushed coral and some other things to get the pH stable.