Hey all,
This will be my first freshwater planted tank in awhile. I have a 2.5 gallon tank and I will be running a red sea art deco filter on the tank. As for stocking I will deff need help with this one. For one where I am located (nyc) I am not really sure where to go to secure plants and specialty shrimp.
For now my first question is lighting, I have a 27 watt power compact light fixture that I can use. Is this too much light? In the past my planted tanks always grew a ton of algea and the actual plants would turn brownish and it looked like something was chewing holes through all the leaves, now the holesmay have been the hitchhiker snails but I still have no clue what caused the browness.
Have no fear I will be doing my research and trying to learn more about planted tank keeping. But some additional info for you guys is that I don't think I will be going with c02 injection so if anyone has some advice on where to get started let me know!
One last question for now, anyone know where to get substrate for a tank this size?!
(Sorry for any errors, I am on my blackberry and it is having trouble rendering so the typing is going slow)
This will be my first freshwater planted tank in awhile. I have a 2.5 gallon tank and I will be running a red sea art deco filter on the tank. As for stocking I will deff need help with this one. For one where I am located (nyc) I am not really sure where to go to secure plants and specialty shrimp.
For now my first question is lighting, I have a 27 watt power compact light fixture that I can use. Is this too much light? In the past my planted tanks always grew a ton of algea and the actual plants would turn brownish and it looked like something was chewing holes through all the leaves, now the holesmay have been the hitchhiker snails but I still have no clue what caused the browness.
Have no fear I will be doing my research and trying to learn more about planted tank keeping. But some additional info for you guys is that I don't think I will be going with c02 injection so if anyone has some advice on where to get started let me know!
One last question for now, anyone know where to get substrate for a tank this size?!
(Sorry for any errors, I am on my blackberry and it is having trouble rendering so the typing is going slow)