Swordtail and Corydora 10G Planted Aquarium - Music: Above and Beyond - In the Past

10G tank, Playsand substrate, 50w heater

Mopani and Manzanita wood and river stones for hardscaping

Hornwort, Java Moss, Watersprite, Java Fern, and Duckweed. There's also a bit of Needle Fern I'm trying to save.

4 Swordtail males, 4 Pepper Corydora, and many snails (MTS, Pond/Bladder, and Ram's Horn)

Four filters (Aquaclear20, air driven sponge filter, Toms Rapids Mini-Canister, and Azoo Palm mini-HOB) Both HOB have AC30 sponges for pre-filters to keep fry from being pulling into the filters.

Lighting comes from a single 20W GE Daylight 6500k CFL bulb in an $8 clamp light fixture. Duration of lighting is three 8hr cycles a day comprised of 3hrs on and 5hrs off each for a total of 9 hours of on time.

No ferts. No CO2. No supplements at all at this point.

Once a day feeding with weekly fasting day.

This video was taken a couple days after I'd removed half of both the Hornwort and Java Moss.

This tank's pretty low tech and really only requires minimal maintenance though it can get overgrown and needs trimming from time to time to keep on top of it or a large culling of plants as with this last "trim."

Music: Above and Beyond - In the Past

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[Loafy23]

I don't use any salt unless treating for ich with salt and higher water temp. Java Ferns are not salt tolerant at all, even small amounts will do them in (as I found out when treating for ich.) I don't recommend using salt at all unless you're treating illness. Only fish and plants that're found in nature in a brackish habitat should be kept in water with salt and then you should use a mixture of marine salt, not aquarium salt. Good luck with your tank.

[Loafy23]

The right side sees plenty of use. It's a little darker, offers a visual divider for the tank so the fish don't see each other constantly. It's also a bit lower current so it serves as a haven and a place for them to rest/chill out.

[wannermike2]

Interesting aquarium-vid , nice

[Bazil1869]

@effini333 yea i just changed form gravel to silica sand i have videos on my channel :) and your lucky we dont have any scape meetings here.

[effini333]

@Bazil1869 I'm going to replace the bulbs, get dry ferts and make my own DIY Co2. I also found out that having gravel is a no no in a planted aquarium (which I did) and for Java Ferns specifically they need to be tied down to somthing like a rock or branch until they attach themselves. If you burry the horiziontal rhizome roots (which I was) in a substrate the plant will rot and die off. I learned so much at that scape meeting, I'm confident now I can do a planted tank the right way.

[Bazil1869]

@effini333 yea i find alot of people at stores dont know what there talking about

[effini333]

@Bazil1869 I've learned a lot about planted aquariums in the past week and attended a SoCal SCAPE meeting. I'm sure now that it wasn't adding aquarium salt that was killing my plants, but having a light that was just to weak. My lights watts were right, but it was a 50/50 white/blue light and they just didn't provide enough white light for the plants to grow so they slowly died off. The fish store guy I bought my tanks from didn't know jack about lights.

[Bazil1869]

@effini333 i dont know what this is about salt but do u have a light? and to keep my plants healty i use flourish excel a liquid carbon

[effini333]

You have a lot of nice planted tank videos. Can you please give me a little advise? I'm trying to start off with Java Fern in a small nano tank, it's only a 3 gallon. All the Java Ferns I've bought from the chain petstores look great and perfectly healthy but slowly die. I'm pretty sure that I was using way to much aquarium salt, the box said 1 tablespoon for every 5 gallons, now I use 1/2 teaspoon. I was using API aquarium salt. My tanks are filtered by nano filters. How much salt do you use?

[amazonfishkeeper]

lovin tank looks cool chech out mine al update with fully planted soon

[HEAVYMETALGODS86feb9]

how good is the rapids mini canister filter for a good new fish tank and i wish fish tanks where like 15 to 20 $ for the very small tanks and 25 to 30 $ for the small tanks and 35 to 40 $ for the medium tanks and 55 to 75 $ for the big tanks and 125 to 145 $ for the very big tanks and 255 to 400 $ for the very extreme big tanks