jayjay
The BE-Team Fighting For Betta Extermination
So today I'm starting a treatment for BGA, a 3 day blackout on my 25g.
When I uncover it I will start my hydroponics system and fill it with some type of fast growing floating plant and some fast growing stem plants if I can get hold of some. I'm hoping this will help the problem I have, after clearing most of the BGA out yesterday, it's already growing back.
To the questions, what type of plants do you recommend I use in the tank? Dimensions are 30"x15"x12", lighting is very strong (my main reason for BGA). The plants already in the tank are slow growing this is my problem, the plants already in there include: abunias, java fern, java moss, Amazon swords, tiger lotus and moss balls. The tank is only homed to my BGK (black ghost knife) temporarily until it grow large enough to be moved. I was using CO2 but due to laziness on my behalf it was far from stable so made the problem worse. No fertilizers and just a plain sand substrate. Faster the plant growth the better really. I'm going to use the floating plants to cut down light as I'm trying to keep it as low tech as I can. Lighting is on for about 6 hours a day.
Plant ideas so far-
(floating)
Duckweed
Azolla moss
Salvinia
Amazon frog bit
Riccia
Water lettuce
Hornwort
(stem)
Hygro. Pol.
Water wisteria
I'm looking for fast growth in the plants, I'm fine with trimming them back when needed, I'll be better than scraping algae constantly. So any ideas welcomed.
For my hydroponics system I'm going to be using 3 lucky bamboo and a fairly large fern. Does anyone have experience in the matter, after a search of the forum a few people seem to have been interested in the idea and I've followed a few links people have given for advice on the setup. I'm interested to see if anyone has seen a good improvement in a tank with the addition of some kind of hydroponics system.
Do you all feel I'm going about this the right way?
Last note, if anyone has any spare plants they think would be ideal for me and live local I have a 20g (24x15x12) I could swap for a decent amount if possible.
Cheers for the advice.
When I uncover it I will start my hydroponics system and fill it with some type of fast growing floating plant and some fast growing stem plants if I can get hold of some. I'm hoping this will help the problem I have, after clearing most of the BGA out yesterday, it's already growing back.
To the questions, what type of plants do you recommend I use in the tank? Dimensions are 30"x15"x12", lighting is very strong (my main reason for BGA). The plants already in the tank are slow growing this is my problem, the plants already in there include: abunias, java fern, java moss, Amazon swords, tiger lotus and moss balls. The tank is only homed to my BGK (black ghost knife) temporarily until it grow large enough to be moved. I was using CO2 but due to laziness on my behalf it was far from stable so made the problem worse. No fertilizers and just a plain sand substrate. Faster the plant growth the better really. I'm going to use the floating plants to cut down light as I'm trying to keep it as low tech as I can. Lighting is on for about 6 hours a day.
Plant ideas so far-
(floating)
Duckweed
Azolla moss
Salvinia
Amazon frog bit
Riccia
Water lettuce
Hornwort
(stem)
Hygro. Pol.
Water wisteria
I'm looking for fast growth in the plants, I'm fine with trimming them back when needed, I'll be better than scraping algae constantly. So any ideas welcomed.
For my hydroponics system I'm going to be using 3 lucky bamboo and a fairly large fern. Does anyone have experience in the matter, after a search of the forum a few people seem to have been interested in the idea and I've followed a few links people have given for advice on the setup. I'm interested to see if anyone has seen a good improvement in a tank with the addition of some kind of hydroponics system.
Do you all feel I'm going about this the right way?
Last note, if anyone has any spare plants they think would be ideal for me and live local I have a 20g (24x15x12) I could swap for a decent amount if possible.
Cheers for the advice.