My nephew asked my to give him a planted tank.
So I made him this tank:
Dimensions: 50 X 30 X 30.
I wanted to try different ideas, so I made 5 liters of DIY substrate with this composition:
- 30% Lateritic soil.
- 20% "Perlita" (small white balls to prevent from compacting - I donīt know the translation in english).
- Little of tennis court sand (red crushed brick).
- 10 cc of bonsai fertilizer (N: 7% - P: 1,8% - K: 3,3% - Fe: 0,10% - Mn: 0,05% - Zn: 0,05%).
- Little of small gravel.
- A little of bone meal.
- I completed the mixture with sand.
I think I put too much fertilizer.
I also added some black soil where I was going put a
Echinodorus bleheri.
Over the DIY substrate I put 1 cm of sand, an on top that I put 2 to 3 cm of gravel. I left only sand where I was going to put the
Glossoestigma elatinoides.
I left a path only with sand.
Plants:
- Blyxa japonica
- Echinodorus bleheri
- Echinodorus tenellus
- Glosostigma elatinodes
- Ludwigia arcuata
- Rotala macrandra
- Rotala wallichii
- Sagittaria subulata
- Vesicularia dubyana (Java moss)
Co2: yeast.
Photos:
Suggestions would be appreciated.
Bye,
Juan