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I have a 55 gallon tank that was recently a planted tank with 2 - 54 watt 6500 K T5 bulbs. I remodeled my house this summer so I decided to move the tank and start over. I cleaned the tank, and have a new fixture to mount the T5's in and am going to mount my filter in the stand. I plan on adding a DIY CO2 system before I start planting the tank again.
I fell in love with shrimp so I believe this tank is going to be a shrimp tank, with the various Amano, Cherry Reds, and Bamboo shrimp that came out of the 55. I would really like to do a moss wall and have been looking on line on how I should start this project. The plan is to get some wire mesh that willcover the bottom and back of the tank and tie a ton of moss to the wire in hopes that it will take off and fill in the bottom and back of the tank.
My question is this, is this a sound approach? Do I need some sort of substrate? Will the moss grow and carpet the tank the way I want? I plan on putting 2 or 3 rocks in the bottom to break up the moss and to hold the wire down but I'm going for a clean look....
ideas...?
- Clint
I fell in love with shrimp so I believe this tank is going to be a shrimp tank, with the various Amano, Cherry Reds, and Bamboo shrimp that came out of the 55. I would really like to do a moss wall and have been looking on line on how I should start this project. The plan is to get some wire mesh that willcover the bottom and back of the tank and tie a ton of moss to the wire in hopes that it will take off and fill in the bottom and back of the tank.
My question is this, is this a sound approach? Do I need some sort of substrate? Will the moss grow and carpet the tank the way I want? I plan on putting 2 or 3 rocks in the bottom to break up the moss and to hold the wire down but I'm going for a clean look....
ideas...?
- Clint