Transforming A Tank Into A Planted Tank

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Flourite and eco-complete are both designed really to be used as the sole substrate, and in my opinion look best used like this. Costs more though, so I would go with the eco-complete to combine with that tahitan moon, will look better when it mixes as it inevitably will. lol

Ade
 
ok i might just go with the eco complete then and not get the sand as its expensive to lol
 
Yup, doesn't look that much cheaper than the eco-complete really.

I used Eco-complete in my invert tank, it's a quite nice looking substrate, and my echinodorus tenellus and eleocharis parvulus are sending runners out all over the place with hardly any fert dosing and no CO2 addition.

Ade
 
ok thats very encouraging as i have not been to good with plants in the past other 1 big amozon sword and a whole lotta cyrpts , some anubias, java fern, varius bulbs and and vallis. but i think i may add a nutra-fin yeast based co2 system, they have them for like 30$ at the lfs and i figure it will be worht it
 
Make your own, it's cheaper, especially on anything bigger than 10 gallons that would need multiple nutrafin systems. I ran my 180 litre planted on DIY yeast for a while, just used 2 plastic 2 litre fizzy drinks bottles. Drilled a hole in each cap slightly smaller than the diameter of some silicon airline, then siliconed a small lenth of airline into each hole, each with a check valve attached. Then I attached both of these to 2-1 airline valve set (back to front, so that the bottles were connected to the outputs). I then attached a longer length of airline to the output (usually the inlet) and put a lime wood air diffuser (as used in protein skimmers etc in the marine side of the hobby) and put this in my aquarium. I then staggered filling the bottles, using the standard yeast mix of about 1 tspn of bread machine or wine making yeast, about 800g of sugar and top up with water to a few inches below the neck of the bottle (leave space for the bubble up you get when the mixture first kicks in, else you end up with yeast in your aquarium). Some folks put a bubble counter inline as well to protect against any yeast mixture getting into their tanks.

It's easy to do, cheap and fairly effective.

Ade
 

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