Hooked on Fish
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hi Mebbid,
There is nothing "super specific" about my set up. I'm using river sand and the same plants that everybody else is using. The most significant difference is instead of using a commercial soil based substrate (the're basically just baked soil) I'm using plain unprocessed. Rather than injecting CO2, I'm satisfied with using Glutaraldehyde and accepting slower plant growth.
Why I have been more successful this time as compared to some of my previous efforts is that I decided to learn a bit more about the science behind what I was doing. Armed with a bit of knowledge and this is actually quite simple to do.
As I've said before you don't have to be an advocate of this approach to benefit from reading about aquarium planted ecology.
Just trying to help. I'm not trying to challenging anyone's personal preferences.
There is nothing "super specific" about my set up. I'm using river sand and the same plants that everybody else is using. The most significant difference is instead of using a commercial soil based substrate (the're basically just baked soil) I'm using plain unprocessed. Rather than injecting CO2, I'm satisfied with using Glutaraldehyde and accepting slower plant growth.
Why I have been more successful this time as compared to some of my previous efforts is that I decided to learn a bit more about the science behind what I was doing. Armed with a bit of knowledge and this is actually quite simple to do.
As I've said before you don't have to be an advocate of this approach to benefit from reading about aquarium planted ecology.
Just trying to help. I'm not trying to challenging anyone's personal preferences.