What are your water parameters, the dimensions of the new tank, decor?
It's a bowfront so the width on the sides is 12" while the width at the center is a little over 15". The length is 24" and the height is about 18". I did my weekly water test today and water parameters are the same as they've been since the tank has been stocked:
pH: 7.8-8.0
ammo: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: seems to be between 20 and 40...reading doesn't really match anything on the test paper. It's been this way since the tank has been stocked. It's a very vivid, bright orange, which on the API test kit doesn't really match anything. There are 2 different shades of orange for 10 and 20 ppm, but this is a brighter more vivid reading so I put it between 20 and 40 because 40 is the color red.
I didn't test kH or gH this time. The readings since I've done the test on both have been consistent that my water is very hard. gH usually reads around 60 and kH usually around 180.
My decor right now is a layer of CaribSea FloraMax with a layer of pool filter sand on top, a 12" piece of mopani driftwood, 1 java fern, 6 stalks of anacharis, 1 banana plant, 1 cryptocyrne, 2 small amazon swords. I plan on getting a lot more plants. I recently increased the light from 6 hours to 8 hours because it doesn't seem like I'm getting a whole lot of growth. All the plants look pretty healthy, but they're just not growing very fast. I got some SeaChem root tabs and put them near all the plants in the tank and have noticed some new growth since then, but the plants aren't actually increasing in size very much. It's only a single fluorescent 18" bulb. I think it's something like 8000K full spectrum daylight and 15 watts as all the 18" fluorescents are. Now that I'm moving to a 28 gallon, will I need more lighting? The 28 gallon actually has the same 18" single bulb fixture I have right now. I was thinking about getting one of those new led fixtures, but they're a little pricey so I'm sure I'll have to wait til Christmas for any hope of getting that for the tank, LOL!
