aphids or springtails? | The Planted Tank Forum
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Best filter media for canister | The Planted Tank Forum
Diana. Filter media can be broken down into 3 groups. Which is best for your system depends on what your system needs. Mechanical filtration is the removal of particles. Usually this is done with porous media like sponges. The coarsest media is first to contact the dirty water, then medium, then finer, ending with floss.
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Planted Aquariums: How To Set Up, Best Plants …
For planted aquariums, it is recommended that you first place a soil-based substrate that will provide nutrients to the plants. Start by adding a 1-inch layer of this substrate to the tank and spread it across …
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Methods of keeping a low tech planted tank
5. In general, get the tank that has the look you like but is also maintainable when it comes to cleaning the substrate. 6. When your initial ideas come together, get some low-tech plants such as Java Ferns, Anuibias, among others, get a Test kit that can measure pH, Ammonia, Nitrate and Nitrite.
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General cure or Paraclease | The Planted Tank Forum
General Cure: 500 mg Metronidazole and 150 mg Praziquantel per teaspoon. Paracleanse: Each packet contains 250 mg metronidazole and 75 mg praziquantel. Neither of these active ingredients are harmful to plants. I am treating for tapeworm. Then all you need is praziquantel- the metronidazole is an extra medication that is not needed.
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Raising KH with Seachem Alkaline Buffer | The Planted Tank Forum
1/4 tsp (leveled) + 13g = 1dKH. 1/2 tsp (leveled) 2.2 grams on my scale + 26g = 1dKH. Easy, cheap and dependable on results. My well water is so bad it's like trying to grow plants in cured concrete so I use RO. Purchased the Seachem line at the end of 2008. Alkaline 95% and Acid buffers 95%, Neutral Regulator 70% and Equilibrium 10%. % = …
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Half dose of General Cure? | The Planted Tank Forum
WaterLife. 2857 posts · Joined 2015. #2 · Sep 14, 2016. I've heard of people using (full dosage) API General Cure (Metro + Prazi) and other's using just straight Praziquantel or Metronidazole solely, for treating Scutariella japonica in their shrimp tanks and had no issues with their shrimps. Since you are using an antibiotic (Metronidazole ...
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General/carbon hardness (gH/kH) in water and how it...
As the water gets saltier, however, the bacteria are different. If you are setting up a tank that will ultimately be a brackish water tank I would either cycle it as a brackish water tank, or else make the change from fresh to brackish slowly so the bacteria can adapt. A marine tank has quite different bacteria, and should be cycled as a marine ...
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Driftwood turning black | The Planted Tank Forum
Here's the underside with a little of the side showing to give a color comparison. As i thought its almost solid black. It doesn't rub off but when I scratch it the wood is normal color underneath. Greg. 29g Dirt, 28g Bowfront Low Tech, 20L Shrimp tank, 2g Fluval Spec, Planted Vases, Emersed Tubs.
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Starting a Beginner Planted Tank
Setting Up a Successful Low-Tech Planted Tank like a Pro, Part 1: The Basics. Author: Lea Maddocks. It can be difficult for a beginner to know how to incorporate plants into their …
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Air stone required or not for planted tank?
Air stones are not necessary. What you need is surface agitation. Even a slight ripple across the surface of the water will be enough movement for gas exchange. An air stone will only affect CO2 levels of you are injecting CO2. What the air stone is doing is causing surface agitation. Any kind of filter has the ability to provide said agitation.
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When Do You Use Carbon? | The Planted Tank Forum
Here are the wives-tails I've know of and thus don't use it. 1. Don't use carbon in a planted tank. 2. The effectiveness last only about a month. 3. Use carbon as a chemical filter to remove medications added due to disease. Thanks. After 50 years I do a lot of things right, but still get things wrong.
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Light, Stocking, and General Setup 29 gal
#1 · May 20, 2021. Hi all, I've been browsing the forums for a a while so thanks for the advice. I'm setting up my first tank and slowly getting items together and had a few …
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Column 15 rip/paladarium general questions | The Planted Tank …
I have 3 other tanks I'm running emersed plants in right now so I'm not in a hurry. There are cherry shrimp, ember tetra and endlers here. This isn't exactly the same think you want to do, but I think you can use the same filtration and …
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How to Maintain Your Matured Planted Tank
Updated on March 5, 2024. A matured planted tank is a self-sustaining aquarium with a balanced ecosystem and lots of bacterial biodiversity in the filter, plants, and substrate. …
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How to Set Up a Planted Tank: 10 Simple & Effective Steps
Gravel. Bucket. Saucer. Aquarium decor. Hood with a plant light. Heater. Filtration system. Water test kit. The 10 Steps on How to Set Up a Planted Tank.
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API General Cure? | The Planted Tank Forum
A Primer to Pressurized CO2 and A Primer to Planted Tanks Eheim Pimp #362 - Eheim Pro 4+ 350, Eheim 2217, Eheim 2213 x2, Eheim surface skimmer and Eheim autofeeder. Victor Pimp #33 - HPT272 ... Tank Journals General Planted Tank Discussion Equipment Fish Shrimp & Other Invertebrates. Top Contributors this Month View All …
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New 20g Planted Tank (Epiphytes only)
New 20g Planted Tank (Epiphytes only) - 11/17/20 - FTS and Videos. Hi everyone! Well I got inspired to change some things up here at home - and I am actually going to redo my small 8 gallon with the leftovers from this 20g build but in this thread I will update the bigger tank, my new 20g tank. I'll update my other journal with the nano redo.
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Best RO Water Remineralization for Planted Tanks?
Tropic Marine Pro Discus Minerals claims to have the usual minerals plus 50 trace minerals. Seachem Equilibrium seems recommended for planted tanks and discus, but seems to be missing several of the minor trace elements found in Seachem Trace, including; Iodine. Copper, Flourine, Iron, Selenium, Zinc. And some people report mixed …
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Benefits of Purigen | The Planted Tank Forum
Purigen adsorbs stuff that is dissolved in the the water.. It is straight-up adsorbing these things, not doing an ion-exchange, so there's nothing it "puts back" into the water. In removing dissolved solids from the water, it fundamentally has to reduce TDS as there's now less solids in the same water.
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Seeding sponge filter? | The Planted Tank Forum
5993 posts · Joined 2011. #3 · Nov 15, 2011. Running a new sponge in an cycled tank will "seed" the new sponge right away. There is no more or less to seeding the filter media. I would say to let it run an hour more as a system check i.e.. flow, fit, leveling, vibration etc. Once seeded the bacteria will establish based on their food source ...
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Best way to raise Nitrates | The Planted Tank Forum
Oh and this is an old tank that has been recently; in the past few months, converted into a planted tank. It is 29 gallons with 96 watts of T5 HO lighting, pressurized CO2, HOB filter, and hydor koralia powerhead. It is a community tank with neons, guppies (great variety), tetras, and 2 pictus cats.
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General Planted Tank Discussion | The Planted Tank …
Home. Forums. General Planted Tank Forums. General Planted Tank Discussion. Herp (Reptiles and Amphibians) Anything about Reptiles/Amphibians. 2.6K. …
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29 Gallon Fully Planted planning --first tank ever, lots...
HolyAngel. 2800 posts · Joined 2010. #8 · Aug 19, 2015. +1 to everything Raymond said. A 29 gallon tank was also my first tank, I started low tech and worked my way up. Think I've spent a couple grand on that tank in the last 7 years or so, so don't feel bad lol. Cant really do lowtech with hc/carpet tho.
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BEST PLANTED TANK BOOK | The Planted Tank Forum
221 posts · Joined 2002. #3 · Jan 8, 2003. the books I find useful for planted tanks are: Berti Gesting, Nature and aquarium (advanced aquarium management) Dennerle, System for a problem free aquarium. Dr Karel Rataj, Thomas j Horeman, Aquarium Plants ( their Identification, cultivation and ecology)
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Is Aquarium Salt ever used in a planted tank?
Absolutely. Standard aquarium salt used in small doses replaces minerals that are lost to the tank water being constantly filtered. A teaspoon or so added to every five gallons of new, treated tap water during the weekly water change will keep your aquatic plants healthy. B.
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How do you clean your planted tank? | The Planted Tank Forum
2. siphon 1/2 of the tank water into jugs from the center of the tank so as not to disturb the substrate or any of the detritus that may be on it. 3. remove plants and put them in a separate container (more in a bit) 4. remove hardscape (rocks and wood) 5. remove all fish and put into individual containers by type.
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Step-by-Step Guide For Starting an Epic Planted Tank
Before you go out and buy anything and regret your retail therapy, ask some questions. Starting a planted aquarium has a lot of moving parts, so you want to nail those down before you get in too deep. Here are some good questions to keep in mind: -What kind of fish do you want? Do you want animals other than fish in y…See more on dustinsfishtanks
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General planted tank questions | The Planted Tank Forum
Attached video is my tank setup on April 16th- 32gallon, 23.6"x17.71"x17.71", Oase thermo 250 adjusted @ 50% flow with glass lily pipes, pressurized CO2 (4 BPS with tank water, 4dKH solution is lime green), Chichiros All MAX A2 lights run at 75% intensity which is 0.4W/Liter and 4425 lm
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How often do you water change? | The Planted Tank Forum
deepgreen1. 32 posts · Joined 2015. #25 · Oct 15, 2017. I do 50% water change every one to two years or so. 90 gallon heavily planted tank, CO2, RO water regularly filled up, moderate macro and micro ferts, moderate Osmocote+, little fish load. 2.5 year old ADA AS.
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