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Brayden515

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Hello!
This tank is almost 2 months old now. I’m going to add Aquasoil and sand to it this weekend and hopefully find some plants to get it planted a bit!

So far I have a tiny black marble angel, 2 mystery snails, 1 white rabbit snail, 3 nerite snails, and 3 dwarf gourami. I plan to add a pack of Corydorasand maybe some Banjo Catfish or Red Whiptail Catfish.

The floating plants have only been in for about 2 weeks. It’s mostly Frogbit with a tiny bit of Water Lettuce. They seem to be doing alright.

Right now there is soil capped with Lava rocks and then the tan area is just small pebbles. The pebbles will be covered with Caribsea Super Natural Sunset Gold. The Lava rock and soul will be capped with Caribsea Eco Complete. I’m going to try a little bit of laterite powder, charcoal powder, and tourmaline powder under the Eco Complete because I want to see how it goes.

I’m super excited to show you guys what the final build will look like. It probably won’t look as good as it does in my head since I’m going to go cheap on the plants and let the tank fill itself out once it’s planted.

Let me know any advice or tips you think I may need. I’m trying to learn so I can do my best for my new friends.
Thank you!
Brayden
 

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It's a start
What plants r u thinking of getting
 

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It's a start
What plants r u thinking of getting
I’m thinking of doing a “carpet” of Anubias nana Petite. AR Mini, maybe a bigger Anubias, mostly easier kind of low tech stuff.

Don't add fresh aquasoil to a tank with fish in it. It releases tons of ammonia when it's new.
So most places say that Eco Complete doesn’t cause ammonia spike. I’m going to monitor the water parameters to be safe but my tank is cycled and I already have more than enough bacteria to deal with any ammonia that may come up.
 
Anubius sounds cool, just an FYI tho it grows super slow
 
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Anubius sounds cool, just an FYI tho it grows super slow
Yeah, I know but I’m totally fine with it. My tank is going to take a while to fill out anyway.
 

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There are other low tech plants that may not take quite as long (dwarf sag, crypts, jungle val, hornwort, water sprite, wisteria... just ideas... your tank)

Also I agree that aquasoil is uncecessary at this point if you have dirt blow your lava rocks. My planted tank is just dirt with a gravel cap and it is doing exceptionally well. I just had to trim and sell a ton of plants so the fish had room to swim again.

Killed a bunch of anubias, and the anubias that did survive in my tank grew one leaf over 4 months..... Yuck

Nice looking tank!
 
Yeah, I know but I’m totally fine with it. My tank is going to take a while to fill out anyway.
It will be a really impressive tank
 
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There are other low tech plants that may not take quite as long (dwarf sag, crypts, jungle val, hornwort, water sprite, wisteria... just ideas... your tank)

Also I agree that aquasoil is uncecessary at this point if you have dirt blow your lava rocks. My planted tank is just dirt with a gravel cap and it is doing exceptionally well. I just had to trim and sell a ton of plants so the fish had room to swim again.

Killed a bunch of anubias, and the anubias that did survive in my tank grew one leaf over 4 months..... Yuck

Nice looking tank!
I know I need to have more than just Anubias for sure. Otherwise they’ll all die to algae lol. It’s just so hard to decide. I think I’m just going to see what they have at a couple of stores the day before I plan to scape and buy what interests me. Otherwise I’m going to be stuck.
 
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It will be a really impressive tank
Well here I am keeping you guys posted.
I planted the tank today and I love it!
I have some more planted on the way but I’m going to also let them grow and propagate to fill the tank out.
Also, I have added 5 Leopard Danios.
Let me know what you think.
 
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