Planting substrate and forts advice...

[JAX3000]

Planting substrate and ferts advice...

Hi, the time is fast approaching when I will set up my new tank and I need some advice please...

I was advised by my lfs to use JBL AquabasisPlus under sand for my (quite) heavily planted tank.

I have 15litres of the Aquabasis and 37.5 kg of Unipac Limpopo black sand. The tank is 90 USG, (4 X 2 X 2). So 4 X 2 footprint.

Do I have enough or too much of either Aquabasis or sand for this size tank...?

Should I even use it? It's not to late to take it back...

I plan to buy a selection of plants which are mainly low to medium light and difficulty, but I want them to thrive.

Will I need aditionnal ferts? This stuff puts out iron, minerals and trace elements. My tap water is 7.5ph and 13gdh with about 20ppm nitrates out the tap. I have powerful led lighting on a control unit, so as much or little light as I need.

I'm also thinking about co2 injection, but don't want to get out of my depth and think maybe I'll leave that a few months and see how I get along...

Any thoughts and advice will be hugely appreciated...

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[Delapool]

One for the experts but dry ferts, particularly potassium could be useful

 

[F.Sam]

Nutrient-rich substrates are always a plus. But mostly heavy-rootfeeders (swords, crypts) will benefit from it. Most stem plants (hygrophila etc) feed mainly through the watercolumn.


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