stoneydee
Aquarium Advice Freak
I set up a 10 gallon planted tank last night, using flourite as my base substrate. Because of what I had read about flourite clouding the water, I rinsed and rinsed and rinsed - then cut my fingernails and rinsed some more. (Briefly tried the pantihose rinsing trick, but had to cut the pantihose up to get all the flourite out, so I returned to the trusty substrate rinsing bucket again - how many buckets do you all have for different tasks?)
I put about 2" of flourite down, followed by 3/4" to 1.5" (deeper at the back) of small black gravel (this tank will house neon tetras and zebra danios), and added water to about 2" from the top of the tank, usingmy handy dandy python, so as not stir things up. Hey, not much clouding at all - the gravel-on-top-of-flourite thing must really work. Added my plants and a piece of driftwood I had boiled the fool out of - it had been soaking in clear water. Really cool look. Hooked up all the electricals and went to bed.
Got up this morning to weak tea. I know that particuarly tetras like black water, so they won't care. But when will the fishkeeper get to see all the way to the back of the tank?
I put about 2" of flourite down, followed by 3/4" to 1.5" (deeper at the back) of small black gravel (this tank will house neon tetras and zebra danios), and added water to about 2" from the top of the tank, usingmy handy dandy python, so as not stir things up. Hey, not much clouding at all - the gravel-on-top-of-flourite thing must really work. Added my plants and a piece of driftwood I had boiled the fool out of - it had been soaking in clear water. Really cool look. Hooked up all the electricals and went to bed.
Got up this morning to weak tea. I know that particuarly tetras like black water, so they won't care. But when will the fishkeeper get to see all the way to the back of the tank?