t-rex

So I recently decided to use my 6 gal quarantine into a nano planted tank. I found it to be extremely fun, and I learned a lot I didn't know before.

A couple key tricks I learned was using a sponge between the water I was pouring and the tank itself, this led to minimal substrate disturbance, after that I found by tapping the surface of the water with the sponge allows the sand on the top to fall down, my best guess is it causes a rapid change in the water tension leaving no floaties! This pic is right after I filled the tank



For substrate I used Miracle Grow Organic potting soil, mineralized it ofcourse. On the bottom of the tank I put eggcrate and topped the soil with a fine black sand. My first attempt at filling led to a hug mud pit in a tank.

P.S If anyone could identify the plants that would be awesome. I know the grass in the back left is not an aquarium plant. I found it in a ditch about a month ago and its been doing fine.

Hope you like

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Bonzo

Hello,
Nice tank, Can you take a picture more closely? They are a little far to indentify them

t-rex

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t-rex

Bump no one knows?

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t-rex

Update on numbers
PH 6.8
NITRITE 0
AMMONIA > 2.0
GH 3.0 dkh
KH 1 dkh

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t-rex

No suggestions? The only plant that doesn't seem to be dead or dying is my j fern
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mudboots

Are you running CO2 or just using the organics in the substrate, and what is your lighting (type and wattage) intensity? If it's a low-light setup with natural CO2 production I suggest letting the fern be your main plant with something like Fissidens moss or maybe some Anubias 'nana-petite' to go with it.

On that note, I noticed a neat thread on lighting cycles in the DFW club sub-forum that you may be interested in reading.

Later,

Darren

t-rex

I'm not running co2, the filter is a sponge so I'm getting adequote surface aggitation, id say I'm getting 2 Watts per gallon. Which really has no meaning but that's how intense it is

Could it be the cap? I used Estes marine sand, which is just a coloured non toxic fine sand
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t-rex

Could it be an iron deficiency? Also in Aaron Talbot's post o. How to mineralize he said not to use potting mix, does this include organic? I
Not worried about toxins bbecause I don't plan on adding any inverts for awhile. Although I had some appear snails in there. They seem to be doing fine
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ColtenB

The Last picture on the bottom looks like Ludwiga to me and then the one above it possible a type of wistera?