collumn tank

[dave7]

hallo all
i am purchasing a new tank this week it is 5ft tall and 15in wide,what plants would be ok in this type of tank being so far from the light which is 11watt pls type
cheers
dave

 

[wetwetwet]

HiYa dave and welcome.

I think you may be struggleing to find plants for this tank though I'm sure Rose will have a suggestion.

Is there any particular reason you're going for a tank of this size/shape. Youll be limited to the number of fish you can keep and I'd imagine doing any maintenence could prove tricky. Even just putting a plant in?

I'm sure you'll get lots more views shortly.

 

[Thomas A. Anderson]

what exactly is a column tank btw?

 

[StiX]

what exactly is a column tank btw?

Here's an example for ya :

Anyway, back to the question, to get light 5ft down, ur gunna need some major lighting!, i think plastic would be best, but maybe u could try some elode densa ? maybe that will grow.

Fish wise, a tank like that, ur only looking at afew fish, probably guppies, they like deep waters, maybe 6-7ish? not really sure.

 

[William]

Ok well this was a test seems to be working now Rose if you care to give your wisdom on the subject

 

[Rose]

Hopefully this will work this time. grrrrrrrr. If not I sent you a e-mail with this info in it yesterday.

There are a couple of problems with putting plants in a tank as you are getting. The main one is the lighting issue. 11watts isn't going to do crap as far as growing plants. At best it'll grow algae for a couple of feet or so. If you want plants your going to have to get some expensive lights to make them grow. OR your going to have to figure out a way to grow the plants with in the top 2 feet of the tank (closest to the light). If the lights on the tank are incandesent instead of florescent don't even bother with plants. They don't grow real well under incandesnent lights.

If you have your heart set on growing plants you can try Java Fern, Java Moss or any of the Apponogetion species. Those are all low light tollerent. I'm not even sure how well these plants will do with that little light.

I hope this helps a bit. Wish I could help you more with this but there's not much that can be done with the set up your getting with out getting better lights. Rose