The infomation on these board are excelent...
I thought I was an advanced aquariumist, but after seeing some pic’s and discussions I have a long way to go..
I love planted aquariums but always struggle to keep plants alive in my 6ft 140gallon tank, from reading info here it sounds like I have no chance..
Some plant advise would be much appreciated, I have a range of fish, 8 bristle nose cat fish and large Hypostomus punctatus,3 Bala Sharks, Some Congo tetra’s, peacock Cicild, 6 yellow lab’s and, about 10 ciclild that look like convict without the strips and about 10 large tetra that look like Bala sharks but have striped tails Oh and some serpea tetra’s and one clown loach… amazing all the fish get along very well with very very little aggression.
My tank is running 2 canister style filters flow 1200 and 800 liter an hour..(475 gallons) and under gravel system with 2 power head flowing a total of about 2000litres an hour (475gallons)… this pushes me over the 5 times tank turn over figure suggested and my light I believe is a major problem. I’m using a tube called Powerglo fluorescent aquarium tubes I don’t know if these are just an Aussie tube or available word wide but I image there similar everywhere. I have a 36” and 3 off 24” tubes with these tubes I only have an output of 90watts… about ¾ of a watt per gallon. I could do some shuffling and might be able to get another 36” and 24” increasing my watts to 140watt, which would be about 1 watt per gallon.
Any thought or advice would be appreciated, am I wasting my time with plants and should look at trying to make it look like a dry river bed style tank instead….
I thought I was an advanced aquariumist, but after seeing some pic’s and discussions I have a long way to go..
I love planted aquariums but always struggle to keep plants alive in my 6ft 140gallon tank, from reading info here it sounds like I have no chance..
Some plant advise would be much appreciated, I have a range of fish, 8 bristle nose cat fish and large Hypostomus punctatus,3 Bala Sharks, Some Congo tetra’s, peacock Cicild, 6 yellow lab’s and, about 10 ciclild that look like convict without the strips and about 10 large tetra that look like Bala sharks but have striped tails Oh and some serpea tetra’s and one clown loach… amazing all the fish get along very well with very very little aggression.
My tank is running 2 canister style filters flow 1200 and 800 liter an hour..(475 gallons) and under gravel system with 2 power head flowing a total of about 2000litres an hour (475gallons)… this pushes me over the 5 times tank turn over figure suggested and my light I believe is a major problem. I’m using a tube called Powerglo fluorescent aquarium tubes I don’t know if these are just an Aussie tube or available word wide but I image there similar everywhere. I have a 36” and 3 off 24” tubes with these tubes I only have an output of 90watts… about ¾ of a watt per gallon. I could do some shuffling and might be able to get another 36” and 24” increasing my watts to 140watt, which would be about 1 watt per gallon.
Any thought or advice would be appreciated, am I wasting my time with plants and should look at trying to make it look like a dry river bed style tank instead….
im form perth other side of aussie land.
