Have A Look At My Aquarium (Black Mollie Breeding)

[coolie]

Have a look at my aquarium (Black Mollie Breeding)and critique if you like.

http/youtu.be/4cx647L5vB4

But please don't say "there's going to be too many fish in that tank!" because that is glaring obvious that there's going to be too many every couple of months.

Firstly, just to say, I have the CO2 turned right down. You can just see it at the start of the video. The problem was I am not using enough fertiliser and still having plants die but getting through a CO2 canister every 4 months, so I have turned the gas down and as you can see the Brazilian Pennywort and one or two others are doing fine.

I didn't intend to setup a Black Mollie breeding tank but it just came about. What I DID set out to do was to create a "productive" tank - one in which fish bred to give away or sell, and which sustained itself in plants and didn't need constantly buying new plants. To some extent I am there, but I've had many pit falls and disappointments along the way.

Let me know if you have any thoughts. It's a 240 litre Juwel with one internal and one external filteration.

 

[hobby5]

Lovely Black Mollies What is the other stocking? All the plants I could see, normally do fine without CO2. What kind of lighting do you have, T5 or T8?

 

[coolie]

Thanks for looking. There are 3 albino Corrys, 1 peppered Corry, 2 Rummynose Tetras, 6 Silver Line Tetras. I have had over the years very poor success rate with plants in this completely Neutral water.
I add ferts on only an ad hoc basis when it looks like it needs it and therein probably is the answer. I find that ALL potted Tropica plants die within a week or two of bringing home, and I don't just mean "melt" but die. Also currently dyeing in the tank has just been ludwigia, and although it did start to grow the water wisteria. Isn't wisteria supposed to be really easy to grow? There's two T8's they could probably be replaced with new ones.

 

[Dreamer03]

I think i may love your fish tank like a lot

 

[hobby5]

If u got T8 there is absolutely no need for CO2. And with that stocking there should be no need for fertilizer either as long as u do your weekly water changes. Are you aware that all pots have to be removed from potted plants while planting them in your tank?

 

[coolie]

Thank you dreamer03. hobby5 I work on the understanding that plants take up Nitrogen so I don't need so many water changes with plants. You say however,
plants are relying on it. Is this something you have experienced yourself? I just ask because there's so many opinions and counter opinions? My water changes
got a lot fewer after I started plants.

 

[hobby5]

Plants not only need macronutrients like nitrogen, but also micronutrients like iron etc. Those you can either add by fertilizer or by exchanging water. Furthermore from my experience fish also benefit from regular water changes, especially when you keep them in rather high densities.

 

[coolie]

hobby5, I do add all the micro nutrients including iron! CO2 was added after much encouragement from fellow members on this site. As I said, so many opinions!