Planted aquarium without fish...is it possible?

[hadjici2]

I was wondering if I could maintain a planted aquarium with no fish to provide "fertilization" to the plants through their waste and fish food.

Will I have a luxurius growth by my plants if I provide them with everything they need?

What plants need.....good sibstrate, lighting, co2 etc I know the stuff.....what I don't know is if the macro and micro nutrients and every element they require to be healthy can be provided by general fertilisers like Tropiflora? I would say that PMDD would be a better solution!

So if no fish then no nitrates.....plants are ok?

Have I missed anything that plants need when fish are not present? In a few words how do I feed plants in a tank without fish....

PS: in my experience plants grew more without co2 injection but with fish rather that with co2 injection and without fish!

 

[Yenko]

If you dose fertilizer correctly, fish are not needed to grow plants. Look at Takashi Amano's tanks; the fish loading in most of them would not come close to meeting the requirements of the plants. Takashi Amano tanks are Dutch tanks (Plants only) with a few fish added for decoration.

 

[illusion54]

Having fish in your tank is the easy part, having live plants in your tank is the hard part .

Just wondering, are you going to fill the whole tank with plants or leave some room and create a landscape like you would if you had fish?

 

[George Farmer]

Takashi Amano tanks are Dutch tanks (Plants only) with a few fish added for

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Amano's tanks are "Nature", a completely different style and concept to "Dutch". Both styles share the same concept in loads of plants and a few fish but even Amano uses a lot of fish in some of his work.

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[hadjici2]

Having fish in your tank is the easy part, having live plants in your tank is the hard part .

Just wondering, are you going to fill the whole tank with plants or leave some room and create a landscape like you would if you had fish?

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I have the tank already for four years....long story....I don't want to have fish now and so I will place some shrimp....but I observed that by adding fertilisers, co2, lighting and without fish my plants didnt gorw as good as with fish and no co2, no fertilisers....

I have a general fertiliser...nothing specific....Tropiflora....is that enough or should I make and dose a daily PMDD?

Is there anything else needed either than the standar PMDD dose from the fertiliser point of view?

I will add co2 and have good lighting!