Freshwater Planted Tank

[AwesomeAssassin1000]

what substrate are u using is it an all gravel substrate

[FrezziBalk]

put more fish !

[goofyfrog1]

can someone plase help.

i want to upgrade my pink gravel bottom tank to a living planted aquarium. can someone please give advice how to do this without killing my current fish.

[whitelotus808]

thats gonna cost alot of money, but its worth it. id start off with a substrate thats recommended for live plants. art rock is good. sand or gravel? gravel is easier to maintain but sand is nicer. (i have white sand). the lighting has to suit the plants your keeping. look up the wattage for different setups and sizes of tanks. what kind of plants are you gonna add in? for low light (less money) id recommend anubius, elodia, and kabomba. they grow in very low lighting and are sturdy plants.

[whitelotus808]

if your gonna go for the heavily planted look then id suggest high lighting and a co2 injector, although some flourish excel may take its place, but its recommended that you add it in every day. then there are the nutrients for the plants. tabs and sticks for nutrients are good. chemicals also have to be added in to ensure the growth of plants. its in liquid form and its pretty easy to add in. plants also thrive in different kinds of water. salt kills them so only fresh water. water hardness

[whitelotus808]

is also something that effects plants growth. iron is used to bring out color in plants such as crypts to get the red out.

so there are alot of things to consider when adding live plants to aquariums. id stick to the basic plants that require no care or very little if you dont want to end up spending extra money upkeeping plants.

[sajeevan1]

what do you want to change the gravel if your not just add in the plant it wont kill the fish

if your changing the gravel well take out the fish set out the tanka from the start cycle in the acclimate the fish once again but it is quite stressful so make sure you acclimate by the dripping process

[Toucan38]

I have anacharis and i recomend placing it in a bunch. It looks great when in a bunch then in single stems.

[tropfish56]

really dark.

[wnied]

I agree that it could use a better set of plants, but at the moment, I have since taken down the two 2nd level planters and just replanted it with large amazon plants to accomodate my tetras.

[SpitRhyma]

interesting but it could be better scaped. i really like the 2nd level on the right side. That's a cool idea.

[Zerstiren]

Beautiful tank, please rate on comment on mine in my channel as I will do for yours. Only recomendation I would have is to add something to eat the shrimp and a bit more light.

[wnied]

Zers, I have since added diamond tetras and more emperor tetras. They pick at the small shrimp and seem to cull the school down to just a few dozen. I have since gotten a new hood with dual lamps allowing for more wattage per gallon. So far so good...will post a video soon.

[Mildewpants]

Great tank! Cant wait to see how it turns out! :)

Do your shrimp breed? The corner raised planters area a great idea.

[wnied]

I have easily over 200 shrimp now. Which might sound nice at first, but the idea with having the shrimp, was to provide the fish in the tank with a convenient live snack. None of the fish eat the shrimp, so theres no one to cull the flock...looks like its time to add a school of emperor or diamond tetras.

[trovey02]

Nice fishtank!

[DarkDH]

Are you using a low light setup? How many watts per gallon? Ferts or Suppliments, as its a really nice tank.

[wnied]

At the moment its just the lighting that came with the tank set up. But I plan to change it in the near future, as I want to start carpetting the foreground with crystalwort or dwarf hair grass, and both types need higher lighting.

[k9feces]

You should remove the mondograss, it isn't aquatic and will die.

[wnied]

I have moved it out since planting it. Once I found out it wasnt aquatic, it was taken out.

[k9feces]

The tank looks nice, I like the circle of sand in the center, I have never seen that in a tank before.

[Metalstr8jacket]

Sweet stuff man, When are you going to add more videos?

[wnied]

Sand is there for the freshwater clams and for the cory cats to play in. As I stated previously, the cory cats seem to enjoy digging their heads into the sand up to their gills and sifting the sand for food...at least thats what I think theyre doing.

[chieftx]

clams huh?

are they hard to keep?

[chieftx]

Great tank!

looks big for just a 45 gallon.

whats the white stuff in the middle?

[wnied]

The white pit in the middle is Marine sand. It's sand taken directly from the ocean, sifted to remove coral and shells, then sterilized.

[chieftx]

why is it there?

[wnied]

Chieftx - The sand was originally put there to hold clams I had planned on adding. But since I have started the tank, and added the cory cats, they seem to enjoy it as well.