confusion
Fishaholic
I've had a few planted tanks up and running for a while now, with default lighting <.5wpg. The tanks aren't heavily planted, but I'm planning to change that. I recently bought satellite fixtures for my 55G and my 30G cube. 130w for the 55G and 80W for the 30G.
I bought some microswords to go for the carpet look, and some misc larger plants to go with my existing amazon swords, moneywort and anacrhis. My tanks have standard gravel substrate.
My questions are these:
Assuming I need to supplement CO2, what is the best method? Are either of these worthwhile?
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/www.petsolutions.com/Plant+Gro+CO2+...-I-C-13-C-.aspx
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/www.petsolutions.com/Natural+Aquari...-I-C-13-C-.aspx
From reading some of the other posts, it seems like gravel is an ok substrate. Should I add some of the laterite or other plant friendly substrate?
What ferts should I use? If I go for the fourish, do I need anything else? I see that there is flourish excel (carbon), flourish trace, flourish iron, flourish potassium, etc.
Thanks much for the help!
I bought some microswords to go for the carpet look, and some misc larger plants to go with my existing amazon swords, moneywort and anacrhis. My tanks have standard gravel substrate.
My questions are these:
Assuming I need to supplement CO2, what is the best method? Are either of these worthwhile?
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From reading some of the other posts, it seems like gravel is an ok substrate. Should I add some of the laterite or other plant friendly substrate?
What ferts should I use? If I go for the fourish, do I need anything else? I see that there is flourish excel (carbon), flourish trace, flourish iron, flourish potassium, etc.
Thanks much for the help!