Ok i bought last weekend a 65L curved acrylic tank. During this week i am aconditioning my tank and the support, doing all the electricity ptoection, etc.
Habitants will be, if its possible, one male betta, one couple of ramirezi, 4 otocinclus and ~6 galaxy.
Plants i am not decided, yet. But i was reading the forum and see that many people started the tanks using DSM for carpeting with hemianthus micranthemoides and doing some scaping.
At this point i have two doubts.
1) Its posible while doing the DSM, using CO2 in a walstad tank? (once filled, i not plan to use CO2)
2) About putting some rock here and there, i know that is not desirable that the stone be ON the cap. I was thinking, to put the rocks first and after put the dirt and the cap of sand/mini gravel.
Lamp is pll biax l 24w 840.
Any guidance will be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Leonardo
Two rocks and the following plants:
Ludwigia SP Red
Marsilea Crenata
Equinodorus Amazonicus
Sagitaria Subulata
Valisneria Nana
Rotala Rotundifolia
Lotus Red
Cabomba
Ambulia
Hygrophila Polyesperma
This pic shows cloudy water but i dont mind, is the first pic after filling up. So, beeing patient is a good choice to "clarify" the water.
I put, also a filter (with very tiny filtration sponge, just for removing particles) and later with nothing just for "moving" water.
Thank you all for reading this post.
This pic show
Tank looks promising. You have a nice variety of plants and have included some good growers
If the water stays this cloudy, I would do a 50% water change. Another trick is to not fill the tank to the top with water. That is, keep the water level shallow temporarily. That way there's less cloudy water for the light to go through before it reaches the plants. Once the plants start growing a few inches, you can raise the water level.
I think that you have a great plant mix for this tank-- Red Tiger Lotus, S. subulata,and R. rotundifolia, etc. These are all fast-growing plants that have done very well in my tanks.
Hello all, hello Diana. well, after a week of going, tank is doing very well.
So far, im very satisfied, VERY !!!
I do not know how is the translate for filtering material. But i have added to the pump, wadding filter - if its wadding - and coffe filter paper between wadding and the pump for extra fine particles.
You can see the tank in a file attached how clear is in comparison whith the older pic.
Ill keep you updated about how tank is going. I bought my betta fish, its so pretty !!! In the meanwhile he is at the pet shop waiting for this fantastic home. I did not give him a name, yet.
Kind regards, yours,
Leonardo
PS: Sorry for my bad English but is not my mothers tongue.
It looks like you are doing very well with that tank. I hope the water clears up some more with time. I like having a filter on my tanks, just to keep the water clear, but I know El Natural tanks don't usually have filters.
It's been a long half and a month since my last update. Some weird things happened.
Just a month ago, my Betta, got acidic or alkaline illness. I put him into a fresh water jar with Aloe vera, so he is healthy again.
The smallest ones died. But rams and otos, didn't show any signal of doing some process of illness. Since then, they're all doing fine. I put three guppies from the other aquarium. By now all doing perfect.
But, news came again few days ago. I saw my rams, doing holes. I thought, damn, water will touch dirt directly. So I started looking very close at rams behavior.
For my surprise today I saw very very tiny ram fry.
So, I'm a new grandfather. And this is a report for breeding rams inside a Walstad tank it's possible.
Have everyone and exciting and wondering new 2019.
Yours, Leonardo
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Congratulations for the Rami fries... I have never been able to hatch the eggs in my NPT, even though they did lay eggs couple of times I am guessing my fish was unable to reproduce for whatever reason.,,,
Hello Diana ! 100% unexpected. Yesterday i started to give him Tropical MIKROVIT HI-PROTEIN. It was amazing. They are amazing and the tank is going on whitout problems.
I will give you some updates from when to when. Love this NPT tank !!!
Thank you all and thank you Diana :heart: :heart: :heart: for making this forum the way it is.
I'm not familiar with rams, but Hikari First Bites and crushed flake food worked for my corydora fry. I doubt it would trouble them if you sprinkled something like that over their area.
A few fry should find enough miscellaneous live food (e.g., protozoa) in an NPT to survive. It could be the parents are eating the fry one-by-one.
If you want to learn what's going on, buy a livebearer breeding trap and put some fry in it and feed them.
The main thing, though, is you have a nice planted tank and it seems the Rams are content with the setup. You may get several chances to raise fry.
Good work!
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