For about a week now I've been setting up my first Invert focused tank, it'll be the first tank that I've ever set up that had any inverts at all so I'm pretty excited.
Its the Fluval 7.9 gal aquatic plant kit. It is currently only loaded up with a few Amazon swords which are doing well.
Some time this week I'm going to be getting a pair of CPOs and I'm probably being overly cautious but I'd rather ask more experienced people advice than just ransacking google for answers.
So here goes:
Are there any invert safe fertilizers I can use? I currenty have the Nutrafin Plant Gro and sources have said thus far that that the trace amounts of copper shouldn't be worried about as long as I use it sparingly.
Suggested tank mates? I would go with RCS but they are just way too expensive in my area as they have to be brought in special and there is only one store which deals with them. Snails? Tetras? Perhaps something interesting that I would have never of thought of?
Is there such thing as having too many plants? and will this hinder inverts? Suggested invert friendly plants as well would be nice.
Lastly, and probably the most annoying conflicting thing I've been researching.. what sorts of rocks are safe. I'm a bit of a rock/fossil hound and I'd love to make the tank full of them but I've been finding out that many of the semiprecious stones and fossils are damaging to inverts. So as a general rule which stones are just a sure thing in an invert tank so I can give my crays nice hiding spots without relying resin ornaments.
Thanks in advance, and any random extra bits of info you can throw at me will also be appreciated. I'm only used to basic fish tanks, so plants and inverts are a mystery to me.
Its the Fluval 7.9 gal aquatic plant kit. It is currently only loaded up with a few Amazon swords which are doing well.
Some time this week I'm going to be getting a pair of CPOs and I'm probably being overly cautious but I'd rather ask more experienced people advice than just ransacking google for answers.
So here goes:
Are there any invert safe fertilizers I can use? I currenty have the Nutrafin Plant Gro and sources have said thus far that that the trace amounts of copper shouldn't be worried about as long as I use it sparingly.
Suggested tank mates? I would go with RCS but they are just way too expensive in my area as they have to be brought in special and there is only one store which deals with them. Snails? Tetras? Perhaps something interesting that I would have never of thought of?
Is there such thing as having too many plants? and will this hinder inverts? Suggested invert friendly plants as well would be nice.
Lastly, and probably the most annoying conflicting thing I've been researching.. what sorts of rocks are safe. I'm a bit of a rock/fossil hound and I'd love to make the tank full of them but I've been finding out that many of the semiprecious stones and fossils are damaging to inverts. So as a general rule which stones are just a sure thing in an invert tank so I can give my crays nice hiding spots without relying resin ornaments.
Thanks in advance, and any random extra bits of info you can throw at me will also be appreciated. I'm only used to basic fish tanks, so plants and inverts are a mystery to me.