Demonknight
Aquarium Advice Freak
Meh, best name for my Xperiments into a heavily planted tank, so far its been slow going. Had my 125g tank setup with some large wolf and pike cichlids, sadly ich got started while I was gone and it wiped out my tank..three weeks later I finally set it back up after doing some of the basics, washed and cooked the gravel, 1.5 g of vinegar trying to get rid of left over salt water residue...tossed all the drift wood I had (just in case).
Decided to try a pseudo-Walstad Natural tank, first try failed (under gravel filter sucked dirt through the gravel and made lots of mud), did a 75% water change and while its looking better its still cloudy
as you can see... I have however have begun to transplant in plants from my 10g along with some of the gravel and moved over the HOB filter in hopes of "seeding" the beast. Also have some plants coming in from MFDrookie so that should help out a lot.
I have 2 sets of 96w 10k/antic combo lights and one set of T8 lights (36w each) so if I figure right i'm just on the low side of things for light and will be adding in more once I figure out what i want.
I have made one mistake so far, and its right up front for all to see, bought whats supposed to be a Alternanthera reinecki "Red" without looking it up first to see how much light it wants.
Decided to try a pseudo-Walstad Natural tank, first try failed (under gravel filter sucked dirt through the gravel and made lots of mud), did a 75% water change and while its looking better its still cloudy
I have 2 sets of 96w 10k/antic combo lights and one set of T8 lights (36w each) so if I figure right i'm just on the low side of things for light and will be adding in more once I figure out what i want.
I have made one mistake so far, and its right up front for all to see, bought whats supposed to be a Alternanthera reinecki "Red" without looking it up first to see how much light it wants.