Hi everyone,
Sorry if this has been answered elswhere but I looked and couldn't find it...
I'm in the process of changing one of my tanks to a sand substrate, but before you all have heart attacks let me explain my idea a bit more.
I needed a cheap substrate and one that would work with corys, also the tank isn't really high light (and I doubt that in the next year or two I'll be able to increase it any more) and I'm going to be sticking with harder to kill plants since this is an office tank and I can't (as much as I'd love to) spend much time on it's maintence...that also means the tank is on a limited budget.
So....most of the tank will be sand, but I'll have some areas of Shultz's Aquatic Plant Soil (plan is to use small containers for the aquascaping). I'm also preparing a number of pieces of driftwood with java fern and possibly later some other plants that could root on wood
Now the questions becomes:
~ In addition to anerobic bacteria is there anything that I might need to look out for :?:
~Are there any "hard to kill" plants that could actually do well in a sand substrate :?:
~What kind of snails, or are there any critters that could help in keeping the sand stirred without treating any of the plants as a second course :?:
~With approx 1.5wpg, 6500K NO light is there a big need for CO2...the tank will be heavily stocked with fish and likely remain on the lightly to moderately planted side (depending on my luck :roll
:?:
Sorry for the lenth, I think I had some others...but I forgot
T'anks in advance for any help
^_^
Sorry if this has been answered elswhere but I looked and couldn't find it...
I'm in the process of changing one of my tanks to a sand substrate, but before you all have heart attacks let me explain my idea a bit more.
I needed a cheap substrate and one that would work with corys, also the tank isn't really high light (and I doubt that in the next year or two I'll be able to increase it any more) and I'm going to be sticking with harder to kill plants since this is an office tank and I can't (as much as I'd love to) spend much time on it's maintence...that also means the tank is on a limited budget.
So....most of the tank will be sand, but I'll have some areas of Shultz's Aquatic Plant Soil (plan is to use small containers for the aquascaping). I'm also preparing a number of pieces of driftwood with java fern and possibly later some other plants that could root on wood
Now the questions becomes:
~ In addition to anerobic bacteria is there anything that I might need to look out for :?:
~Are there any "hard to kill" plants that could actually do well in a sand substrate :?:
~What kind of snails, or are there any critters that could help in keeping the sand stirred without treating any of the plants as a second course :?:
~With approx 1.5wpg, 6500K NO light is there a big need for CO2...the tank will be heavily stocked with fish and likely remain on the lightly to moderately planted side (depending on my luck :roll
Sorry for the lenth, I think I had some others...but I forgot
T'anks in advance for any help
^_^