Hi all,
So after another topic on here, I seem to have finally and hopefully sorted out my stocking and a way forward but I am still a newbie with plants and could do with some advice and help with my current plants and help with how to scape it as I don't really like the look of it at the moment and my fish seem to agree as well it seems.
My current tank as it stands at the moment
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It is a fluval roma 125 with a u3 filter and 2 x 24" 20 watt GLO fluorescent lighting. Would you say that this lighting is sufficient enough to grow basic plants or something similar? Currently, I have anubias, java fern (which doesn't seem to be doing too well) and twisted vallis which is doing ok. I currently do weekly water changes and use pro flora fertiliser which was suggested at my lfs and don't use a co2 system and ideally I would like not too. My plants don't seem to be doing that great and they have been in there a few months now, at least 4 and don't seem to have grown, it at all. I was thinking it was time to maybe change things around a bit and do a bit of re-scaping to aid my growth problems and to allow my fish to enjoy their tank a bit more as they don't seem very active (currently 6 glowlight tetras and 6 cardinal tetras) I was hoping to get some cherry shrimp or an alternative so would ideally like some sort of moss carpet for them which I do have some rocks for, to grow some moss on.
Would a black background help at all enhance the tank at all? I am considering getting rid of the big ornament as the fish don't seem too interested in it and it does take up quite a lot of their swimming room.
Any suggestions on what I could/should do to help would be much appreciated
So after another topic on here, I seem to have finally and hopefully sorted out my stocking and a way forward but I am still a newbie with plants and could do with some advice and help with my current plants and help with how to scape it as I don't really like the look of it at the moment and my fish seem to agree as well it seems.
My current tank as it stands at the moment
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It is a fluval roma 125 with a u3 filter and 2 x 24" 20 watt GLO fluorescent lighting. Would you say that this lighting is sufficient enough to grow basic plants or something similar? Currently, I have anubias, java fern (which doesn't seem to be doing too well) and twisted vallis which is doing ok. I currently do weekly water changes and use pro flora fertiliser which was suggested at my lfs and don't use a co2 system and ideally I would like not too. My plants don't seem to be doing that great and they have been in there a few months now, at least 4 and don't seem to have grown, it at all. I was thinking it was time to maybe change things around a bit and do a bit of re-scaping to aid my growth problems and to allow my fish to enjoy their tank a bit more as they don't seem very active (currently 6 glowlight tetras and 6 cardinal tetras) I was hoping to get some cherry shrimp or an alternative so would ideally like some sort of moss carpet for them which I do have some rocks for, to grow some moss on.
Would a black background help at all enhance the tank at all? I am considering getting rid of the big ornament as the fish don't seem too interested in it and it does take up quite a lot of their swimming room.
Any suggestions on what I could/should do to help would be much appreciated