I have a 75 gallon low tech tank that I hardly ever mess with. Probably trim it once a month if I feel like it. Lighting is 2 four foot shop light fixtures with regular NO flourescent bulbs, 6700k. Home depot has the bulbs 2 for < $5. Substrate is a mix of gravel and laterite. No CO2. Heavily planted and nicely stocked with various tetras, dwarf cichlids, and other tropicals. I feed the fish fairly heavily twice a day. I dont dose anything (but I will probably start dosing a little kno3, po4 and some traces soon just to speed things up a bit) and hardly ever have to trim. Most of the plants are crypts and anubias. One mother sword, a few stem plants, some dwarf chain sword, bolbitus...etc. This tank is at my gf's mothers house which we recently moved out of, so I dont get to spend very much time with it except for feeding the fish. It has been running for about a year and a half. |