That is a great looking tank! Thank you for sharing. Did your rams eat too many cherry shrimp or were you able to keep a colony with them?gray_matter16 said:75g here. Had 2 finnex planted plus 24/7 lights. 6 hours of staggered light, meaning light A was on from 3PM - 7PM and light B was on from 5PM - 9PM. Had diffused co2 and fertilized with thrive+ every 3 to 5 days depending on algae. Root tabs under specific root feeding plants.
Had 12 cardinal tetras, 4 german blue rams, colony of cherry shrimp, some nerite snails, and colony of malaysian trumpet snails.
It's hard to believe that's low tech, it looks good! Also good advice to baby the plants more when they're new and cut back once they're established.leftswerve said:90g, large water changes and fish waste. The plants are all low tech. Once the root systems take hold and the aquarium ages, I quit supplements.
It's so green and fluffy!Cherryshrimp420 said:Here's my tank with just plants and no aquascaping. This is what happens when you have sand and allow a weed (hygrophila corymbosa) to grow
They ate any they could fit in their mouths and catch. Luckily I had an established colony prior to them so I have plenty large adults that they don't go after because they're too big. There's also a lot of good hiding spots for the small ones. The small shrimp by now have learned to stay hidden during the day timewateriswet said:That is a great looking tank! Thank you for sharing. Did your rams eat too many cherry shrimp or were you able to keep a colony with them?
How do you do water changes? Do you vacuum the substrate? Just curious.gray_matter16 said:75g here. Had 2 finnex planted plus 24/7 lights. 6 hours of staggered light, meaning light A was on from 3PM - 7PM and light B was on from 5PM - 9PM. Had diffused co2 and fertilized with thrive+ every 3 to 5 days depending on algae. Root tabs under specific root feeding plants.
Had 12 cardinal tetras, 4 german blue rams, colony of cherry shrimp, some nerite snails, and colony of malaysian trumpet snails.
I don't vac substrate much. The substrate is eco-complete which is inert. But with my tank being 2+ years old there is plenty of detritus collected in the lower layers that the plants use as nutrients. I WC about once per monthghostdawg said:How do you do water changes? Do you vacuum the substrate? Just curious.
