New Guy With Plants

[ghostknife597]

Hi. I've had a 55gallon freshwater aquarium for a very long time, and it has several species of fish, none of which eat plants. I would like to add some plants to my aquarium that can do well under relatively lower light settings. I have a Co2 reactor set up, but obviously not running yet. Does anyone have any suggestions? all help appreciated.

 

[fatheadminnow]

Co2 reactor, is this like Co2 injection? If so, then you can probably grow a lot of different kinds of plants. The only thing though is that if you pump too much Co2 in your tank, you might need to dose Macro Ferts to balance it out. Too much Co2 and not enough other nutrients for the plants, means the plants might not do so well.

Potassium nitrate and Magnesium Sulfate are good for Macro ferts and can be bought online extremely cheap! Then a nice trace or Micro fert would be a CSM+B, which you can also buy online very cheap.

For now though, I would just introduce a little bit of Co2, and does trace (micro) ferts for now. A good micro fert would be Seachem Flourish.

How much light do you have in WPG (watts per gallon)?

-FHM

 

[ghostknife597]

thanks, i'll look into that. i obviously dont want to add anything that might hurt the fish. the co2 system is just yeast in a pressure tight bottle producing co2 thorugh a tube into a co2 diffuser in the tank. its only a 40 watt fluorescent.

 

[fatheadminnow]

What size tank is it?

-FHM

 

[ghostknife597]

55 gallon, 4 feet by 18" tall and 1 foot deep. I know the lighting is inadequate, but my friend gave me a amazon sword that is actually sprouting new leaves so we'll see what happens. thanks for the help!

 

[fatheadminnow]

Your welcome!

-FHM