My planted tank

So after my picture I decided to toss up the pics of the tank I have my whiptail cat in.

This is my second planted tank, the first being the WOW THAT IS A COOL PLANT let me put it somewhere. I have a 40 breeder for a true aquascape design

The tank is a low tech substrate (inch+ of miracle grow organic potting mix with inch+ sand) with high light and co2 injection. I add zero ferts to this and my maintenance is keeping the growth in check and scraping algae. I do occasional water changes to get the extra detrious out of the denser plant growth but never due to my water parameters

For the start I went with a dry start.....and by dry start I mean I screwed up and kept too much water in the substrate. The cover was kept on and humidity in the tank stayed above 90 percent. I started in August and flooded in Oct due to mostly being impatient.

Couple of "dry start" pictures






CO2 Tank


Barr Venturi reactor for making sure the co2 gets 100% mixed into water


Dry start continuing


October Flood (you can tell from the water being brownish from turbidity)


Today


One of the pair of German Rams I got from Yunite rams

Thats an awesome tan:thumbup:

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Very nicely done.
I need to do cO2 injection.
Have you had any trouble with bba with using the miracle grow?

FishEggs said:

Very nicely done.
I need to do cO2 injection.
Have you had any trouble with bba with using the miracle grow?

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I was going to ask the same thing about the miracle grow.


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You are in the wrong club! :lol: The club you want is called GWAPA.
Nice job on the planted tanks.

since my snail colonies finally established along with the whiptail cats and some Siamese algae eaters the bba still is there but nothing too horrible

Now the gsa and gda, that's a pain in my ***. But I haven't raised my lights on that tank yet