Any freshwater planted tanks out there ??

[ileas]

Start with a danio. Depending on the tetra they need stable conditions

neon tetras used to keep them a few years ago i think i was like 12 until i converted to the dark side lol

 

[CrypticLifeStyle]

Too small of a tank for neons. I would do ember tetras or celestial danios. boraras brigittae instead. They will stay "nano" and you can still have a colony size.

Also Ileas, if you want chollo wood again there used to be the cholla king based out of Somerville oddly. I think he was through aquabid. If he dosen't exist anymore etsy has some good cheap suppliers.

 

[ileas]

Too small of a tank for neons. I would do ember tetras or celestial danios instead. They will stay "nano" and you can still have a colony size.

Also Ileas, if you want chollo wood again there used to be the cholla king based out of Somerville oddly. I think he was through aquabid. If he dosen't exist anymore etsy has some good cheap suppliers.

That sounds good thank you, this cholla was pretty cheap 5 pieces for 12 bucks

 

[serwobow]

figured id throw this on here but I plan on putting 6 tetras in the 7 gal because i want a school of them, to avoid overloading the bioload should i put them in in sets of 3?

I had 6 neon tetras in a 5 gallon tank. They all attacked one another until there was just 1 left. I think that is common with neons, and they need a shoal of a dozen or more so that their aggression is diluted. Now I have 17 of them in a 30 gallon, and they are all thriving. So if keeping neons, I think you want to start with at least a dozen. You may need a larger tank.

 

[ileas]

I had 6 neon tetras in a 5 gallon tank. They all attacked one another until there was just 1 left. I think that is common with neons, and they need a shoal of a dozen or more so that their aggression is diluted. Now I have 17 of them in a 30 gallon, and they are all thriving. So if keeping neons, I think you want to start with at least a dozen. You may need a larger tank.

Yea i guess that would make sense, back in the day i had 3 in a 10 gal so it would make sense that I didn't really have a problem keeping them

 

[CrypticLifeStyle]

Here's a quick clip of some of my colony of ember tetras, and celestial danios. They are as active as regular size tetras. Don't mind Annabelle in the background lol.

 

[ileas]

Here's a quick clip of some of my colony of ember tetras, and celestial danios. They are as active as regular size tetras. Don't mind Annabelle in the background lol.

I really like those danios they're very nice looking. I think ill get those

 

[CrypticLifeStyle]

Same fish, just my last place. The tank is a Mr aqua 12g.

But here's the thing. I didn't intend to have them in this tank initially, this was going to be a shrimp tank, but when I first put them in a 40g



with cardinal tetras, and rumney noses, they were chased down, and eaten like I was dropping a handful of food to a colony of peacock bass.

They ate a pair of scarlet badis on me once within 2 minutes as well. So when going nano fish, stay nano fish lol.

 

[gobyvin]

Very true it out competes algae if you.plant heavily from the start. Its funny though you can do a tank full of plants for a 100 or get one designer coral for a 100 lol it gets me evertime. Do you have only the one discus or multiple. Also how big is the planted tank with the discus

The Discus is solo in a 55. I think I might want to go bigger with the tank soon, something wider. More space.

 

[ileas]

Figured this is a good place to ask but on the topic of freshwater, my API bacteria turned out to be a sham and in 2 weeks my ammonia hasn't budged, my friend in my town with a brackish cichlid tank offered to give me some sponge water but is brackish bacteria anything special? Figured its not full salt but I'm not sure

 

[gobyvin]

You could just add more plants and they might suck it up too. Low ph tanks cycle slow. You might want sponge water from a low ph setup.

 

[Aros]

A couple low tech ones I have running right now. A nuvo10 for only orange Sakura shrimp and a reefer 170 for java ferns and various tetras. No co2 just good light and easy plants on these. Not looking for any extra maintanance.

 

[ileas]

You could just add more plants and they might suck it up too. Low ph tanks cycle slow. You might want sponge water from a low ph setup.

right but its a brackish cichlid tank so I'm just wondering if the bacteria is good

 

[gobyvin]

right but its a brackish cichlid tank so I'm just wondering if the bacteria is good

I think the brackish bacteria might not work it ph is way higher and salinity is also up, depends on the scale of the difference. It could not hurt to try though. Worst that could happen is it adds a little more waste.

 

[absolutecarrot]

buckweed in my 5 gallon

 

[ECExotics]

Moved everything to a slightly bigger tank, plants completely outgrew and choked out old tank

 

[andlim]

Here's my freshwater low tech and low maintenance planted tank.
40 gallon with angelfish, panda cory, khuli loaches, and gold rams.
Bunch of java fern, different mosses, and anubias.

 

[GraniteReefer]

My sons 2.5g planted. Used some super Japanese Mr. Aqua substrate and black onyx sand. I need to trim it. Finnex planted plus LED. 27gph internal filter. 4 ember tetras. Frozen mountain haha. I throw away 90% of the frogbit monthly as it goes nuts and robs light like it is now

 

[GraniteReefer]

This is January when it was first planted

 

[Edward]

Hey guys, this is my Apistogramma caucatoides "Triple Red" pond. The plants were all delivered this week and installed after the tank fully cycled with a male halfmoon Betta fish. I started adding moss and some unknown red leafed bulb plant maybe 3 weeks ago which started to make a dent in the algae and since I added the rest of the plants, the algae growth has been minimal so I'm very confident I'm winning this war and once everything is rooted and established the tank will flourish. The only thing I'll be adding is a dwarf fancy pleco if I can find one at a reasonable cost. The more I look at this tank, the more I want to rearrange everything already. I'll post a build thread for this one soon, I'm currently constructing two more planted tanks and an Apistogramma sp. breeding tank shelf. Sorry for the photo quality, I need to get better lighting in my living room and learn to have a steadier hand