FishCrazyBenBOMB
Aquarium Advice Addict
Hello. I haven't been on this forum much since school started once again. But i'm going to try to get sometime to focus on my aquariums.
So I wanted to create a low-tech planted aquarium. A 5 gallon and a 20 gallon(Tall). To tell you guys right now. I want to know about everything. The lighting, substrate, rocks, drift wood, type of plants, and anything else you can think of to tell me. I want to get this right .
I'll explain my setups now. My 5 gallon has a 15watt heat lamp I use to have on a lizard, it has sand from my local river(we just had a bad flood during the summer.) I have some dwarf hairgrass but it's failing terribly but there is some grass still there. It has some rocks towards the back then some driftwood in the middle. I do put some liqiud plant stuff in it I can't exactly remember what it is right now. It has 3 neon tetras, two very small baby mollys, and one small pleco. I run an air pump during the night and take it off during the day.
If I need to make any changes at all I will. I want to know everything about low-tech planted aquariums, amout of light, to use co2 or not, ect.
My 20 gallon is not setup yet bcuz we had turtles in them and i'm in the processes of cleaning the aquarium and getting new equipment for the aquarium. So just tell me what I need and i'll put it on my list.
Please help.
Thank you!
So I wanted to create a low-tech planted aquarium. A 5 gallon and a 20 gallon(Tall). To tell you guys right now. I want to know about everything. The lighting, substrate, rocks, drift wood, type of plants, and anything else you can think of to tell me. I want to get this right .
I'll explain my setups now. My 5 gallon has a 15watt heat lamp I use to have on a lizard, it has sand from my local river(we just had a bad flood during the summer.) I have some dwarf hairgrass but it's failing terribly but there is some grass still there. It has some rocks towards the back then some driftwood in the middle. I do put some liqiud plant stuff in it I can't exactly remember what it is right now. It has 3 neon tetras, two very small baby mollys, and one small pleco. I run an air pump during the night and take it off during the day.
If I need to make any changes at all I will. I want to know everything about low-tech planted aquariums, amout of light, to use co2 or not, ect.
My 20 gallon is not setup yet bcuz we had turtles in them and i'm in the processes of cleaning the aquarium and getting new equipment for the aquarium. So just tell me what I need and i'll put it on my list.
Please help.
Thank you!