This is my second 55g tank.
I couldn't resist buying plants today and finishing the
aquascaping. The 4x54 T5HO light comes from Catalina on Tuesday or Wednesday, so hopefully everything will live until then. Right now, I'm doing liquid carbon, but I hope to add a CO2 setup at some point soon.
Substrate is Eco Complete, 5 bags worth
driftwood is Three pieces of malaysian and two pieces of mangrove root. Boiled all of them before they went in the tank.
Plants are all over the map, and I couldn't name half of them despite researching them ahead of time. There's a tall sword in the back, some val to the right of it. To the left I have an onion plant that I grew from a bulb in teh 10g. In front, I have some wisteria and rotala, some star moss under a net, a red plant whose name I can't remember (maybe Ludwigia?), dwarf baby tears and 5 bunches of microsword that I hope will grow into a continuous mat. The stuff hanging off the driftwood at the top left is something I completely forget the name of
There were some plants I wanted to get (like dwarf hairgrass instead of the micro sword), but the
LFS doesn't carry them. I've had horrible luck with shipped plants, presumably due to the heat, so I'm skipping that until the temp cools down.
I put in tons of caves, hiding spots and general fish-safe areas. The three rocks in front even have a little cave scooped out underneath, facing away from the glass. I ended up not using the cement tree root I created because it took up a lot of space and provided no real value to the fish.
Filter is an AquaClear 110 with a sponge over the intake.
Oh, and all those fish came from an overcrowded 10g (2 mollies, one pearl gourami, a bunch of zebras and glofish, 3 snails). The only things left in the 10g are a
CAE I'm going to try and give back to the store and some pond snails.
Pete