hippy guy
Aquarium Advice Addict
alright, alright.
its been nearly a YEAR since Ive posted.
looking for a planted tank community again, and figured this place is still awesome, why not.
anyways my beautiful fiance decided she wanted a new setup (her betta finally past on, but he lived for a LOOONG time lol
anyways, we scrapped the old 10, and im power cleaning it to use as a possible plant propagation tank or sorts, possibly toss some crystals in there..
anyways
she went out and bought a tank, driftwood, sand, new filter, new heater..really tried to do it right..
BUT shes not exactly as versed in fish speak as me (I still have learning to do as well haha)
anyways, the tank now has fish (in process of doing a hard cycle, unfortunatley, but we havent lost a single resident, and the amm. is 0, and our trites are getting down to zero after some time)
I figured hey, plants will help with a cycle, or maybe I just need a half decent reason to spend money on fish stuff (anyone else love fish shopping?!?!)
So ive set up a hagen nutrafin natural co2 plant system thing, but Im using the cannister with my own co2 recipie.
Have the drop checker as well, and got a boatload of plants.
I ordered some anubias barteri "nana" for 6 bucks from (dogfoodect.com) and got 2, have ozelot sword, its doing ok, but Im not a fan of the spots, and I have a grass of some sort, a sword of some sort, and 2 red plants (help me figure out what I got guys haha)
Plants been running for 2 weeks (cept the anubias, they came today) and are all doing great.
have some searchem various nutes (phos, iron ect...) as well as nutrafin plant gro, which ive only used so far, but the pants LOVE it.
as far as stock, I know that all the water column fish are tetras, and they actually school together. 6 of them
she also got 2 ottos.
as well (i know, i know, overstocked) as a clown pleco
I snatched some ghost shrimp, and am going to add more shrimp soon.
Is the tank doable as is, with maintenance (I do daily tests on all tanks with api freshwater master test kit..)
also have mts in the tank, and want a few tylomenia, but may have to put them somewhere else..
heres a pic, anyone able to identify the fish and or plants?
sorry im spacy, worked all week and having a nice bourbon on the rocks while tank gazing.
the pics.. the fish pics, the longer finned bigger tetras, there are 2, possibly male and female (one is pinker in color)
the smaller guys, with the yellow stripe on the top fin, and the reddish tails we have 4, two are regular and 2 albino
no otto pics, they have lots to eat, one even got pregs, but I dont think she is, and dont see babies
thanks guys, im glad to be back, btw
its been nearly a YEAR since Ive posted.
looking for a planted tank community again, and figured this place is still awesome, why not.
anyways my beautiful fiance decided she wanted a new setup (her betta finally past on, but he lived for a LOOONG time lol
anyways, we scrapped the old 10, and im power cleaning it to use as a possible plant propagation tank or sorts, possibly toss some crystals in there..
anyways
she went out and bought a tank, driftwood, sand, new filter, new heater..really tried to do it right..
BUT shes not exactly as versed in fish speak as me (I still have learning to do as well haha)
anyways, the tank now has fish (in process of doing a hard cycle, unfortunatley, but we havent lost a single resident, and the amm. is 0, and our trites are getting down to zero after some time)
I figured hey, plants will help with a cycle, or maybe I just need a half decent reason to spend money on fish stuff (anyone else love fish shopping?!?!)
So ive set up a hagen nutrafin natural co2 plant system thing, but Im using the cannister with my own co2 recipie.
Have the drop checker as well, and got a boatload of plants.
I ordered some anubias barteri "nana" for 6 bucks from (dogfoodect.com) and got 2, have ozelot sword, its doing ok, but Im not a fan of the spots, and I have a grass of some sort, a sword of some sort, and 2 red plants (help me figure out what I got guys haha)
Plants been running for 2 weeks (cept the anubias, they came today) and are all doing great.
have some searchem various nutes (phos, iron ect...) as well as nutrafin plant gro, which ive only used so far, but the pants LOVE it.
as far as stock, I know that all the water column fish are tetras, and they actually school together. 6 of them
she also got 2 ottos.
as well (i know, i know, overstocked) as a clown pleco
I snatched some ghost shrimp, and am going to add more shrimp soon.
Is the tank doable as is, with maintenance (I do daily tests on all tanks with api freshwater master test kit..)
also have mts in the tank, and want a few tylomenia, but may have to put them somewhere else..
heres a pic, anyone able to identify the fish and or plants?
sorry im spacy, worked all week and having a nice bourbon on the rocks while tank gazing.
the pics.. the fish pics, the longer finned bigger tetras, there are 2, possibly male and female (one is pinker in color)
the smaller guys, with the yellow stripe on the top fin, and the reddish tails we have 4, two are regular and 2 albino
no otto pics, they have lots to eat, one even got pregs, but I dont think she is, and dont see babies
thanks guys, im glad to be back, btw
