To start with I would like to say that I admire your site and I think it is wonderfull to have so much information on one place. Aquatic Plant Central you are the best!
Allthough I am reading new posts every day, I decided I will finally write my own one :wink: I allready have 2 aquariums, one 200l (45 Gallons) and 63l (14 Gallons) for about a year now and I am still learning - with your help also. There is a lot of things that I still have to learn
I am planing to set up new nature - fully planted aquarium 140×55×50 height = 385l (90 Gallons) made of 10mm glass. I have EHEIM external Thermofilter II 2128 (with volume 7,3l, pump output 1050l/h,...), CO2 bomb with magnetic and pressure regulator, and hanging lights with 4×54W of T5 full spectrum fluorescent tubes (2×9000K and 2×4000K). That is 216W for 385l, which comes 0,56W/l or 2.45W/Gallon.
For substrate I was planning to use something rich with FE and other macro and micro elements. I would use amano substrate or something simillar, but it is not available by us.
I was thinking having these plants:
for foreground:
- Glossostigma elationoides or
- Hemianthus callitrichoides ("Cuba")
in the middle:
- Microsorum pteropus "Philippine"
- Anubias barteri var. nana
- Monosolenium tenerum "Pellia"
- Lilaeopsis mauritiana
- Eleodharis acicularis
- Riccia fluitans
for background:
- Rotala sp. "Nanjenshan"
- Rotala rotundifolia
- Rotala sp. Green
- Rotala wallichii
- Limnophila aromatica
- Ludwiga spec. "Cuba"
- Eusteralis stellata
Can you please tell me which plants do not go together, and what is the best? I really like gouramis (don't know how to spell) so I was thinking having 10-15 of them (Colisa lalia, Colisa chuna, or maybe even Sphaerichthys osphromenoides), 5 Crossocheilus siamensis, about 20 Otocinclus affinis, a lot of Yamato-numa Ebi (Amano shrimps and maybe some red-cherry shrimps), some apple snails, and 1 or 2 flock of other fishes (which ones do you suggest)?
Can you please give me any advice, like can I have this plants with this fishes and shrimps, do I have enough lightning for glossostigma, which fertilizers do you suggest,...anything please. I am really looking forward for some answers.
A link of how it looks now:
http://peskovnik.gimb.org/~sumicadi/akvarij/
Allthough I am reading new posts every day, I decided I will finally write my own one :wink: I allready have 2 aquariums, one 200l (45 Gallons) and 63l (14 Gallons) for about a year now and I am still learning - with your help also. There is a lot of things that I still have to learn
I am planing to set up new nature - fully planted aquarium 140×55×50 height = 385l (90 Gallons) made of 10mm glass. I have EHEIM external Thermofilter II 2128 (with volume 7,3l, pump output 1050l/h,...), CO2 bomb with magnetic and pressure regulator, and hanging lights with 4×54W of T5 full spectrum fluorescent tubes (2×9000K and 2×4000K). That is 216W for 385l, which comes 0,56W/l or 2.45W/Gallon.
For substrate I was planning to use something rich with FE and other macro and micro elements. I would use amano substrate or something simillar, but it is not available by us.
I was thinking having these plants:
for foreground:
- Glossostigma elationoides or
- Hemianthus callitrichoides ("Cuba")
in the middle:
- Microsorum pteropus "Philippine"
- Anubias barteri var. nana
- Monosolenium tenerum "Pellia"
- Lilaeopsis mauritiana
- Eleodharis acicularis
- Riccia fluitans
for background:
- Rotala sp. "Nanjenshan"
- Rotala rotundifolia
- Rotala sp. Green
- Rotala wallichii
- Limnophila aromatica
- Ludwiga spec. "Cuba"
- Eusteralis stellata
Can you please tell me which plants do not go together, and what is the best? I really like gouramis (don't know how to spell) so I was thinking having 10-15 of them (Colisa lalia, Colisa chuna, or maybe even Sphaerichthys osphromenoides), 5 Crossocheilus siamensis, about 20 Otocinclus affinis, a lot of Yamato-numa Ebi (Amano shrimps and maybe some red-cherry shrimps), some apple snails, and 1 or 2 flock of other fishes (which ones do you suggest)?
Can you please give me any advice, like can I have this plants with this fishes and shrimps, do I have enough lightning for glossostigma, which fertilizers do you suggest,...anything please. I am really looking forward for some answers.
A link of how it looks now:
http://peskovnik.gimb.org/~sumicadi/akvarij/
