25 Gallon Planted Aquarium

Our 25 gallon planted fish tank. Eventually this is being moved into a 75 to give the fish and plants more room to grow.

Plants: Water Sprite, Bronze Crypt, Red Ludwigia, Java Fern, Temple Plant, Rosetta Sword.

Fish: Cherry Barbs, Hoplo Catfish, Siamese Algae Eaters, Emerald Corydoras, Yoyo Loach, Chocolate Zebra Pleco, Otocinclus

Water test consistently at 6.4 Ph; 0 Ammonia; 0 Nitrite; 5 Nitrate. Water changes are only done about once a month with readings never going above this.

Rena Filster XP2, Rena Smart Heater, Marineland Penguin 150 (Thinking about upgrading to the 280), Odyssea 24" 130W Power Compact Light using 2 65 watt Sunpaq bulbs.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Aquarium
• Hoplo
• Cherry Barb
• Siamese Algae Eater
• Emerald Cory
• YoYo Loach
• 25 Gallon
• Planted Tank
• Planted Aquarium

[Jackelsr]

The whole tank has been upgraded to a 55 which I'll make a video for soon. The tap water where I'm at is too hard, Alkaline, and full of chemicals for me to use so I use a mix between RO/DI water and in a pinch Distilled mixed with Spring bottled water. I use Seachem Equilibrium to set the water hardness and Seachem Alkaline and Acid Buffers. Theses are phosphate free buffers so they don't hurt the plants or encourage algae.

[bm20197]

very nice, i like it. looks nice and clean

[siwiki12]

glad to see a fish aquarist take care of his/her fish very good,nice fish tank maybe you should add a small plecostomus.you shouldn`t move your fish to a 75 gallon everything looks fine.I see that there is no CO2 so i guees your just using plant food.also how do you get your pH to 6.4 dont use buffers because it has bad stuff and it will kill your plants.If the pH remains below 6.8,only ammonium, which is harmless to the fish wil be present.im a 11 year old kid and im very smart and know alot.[: