Very excited. Decided to go all clear and will paint the tank myself. I had to pull the trigger because there is a 10-12 week lead time and I need to do this project in June. Need to finalize planning so I can provide these guys with final specs of what I want.
Tank Upgrade 450-550g Planning
- Thread starter nzafi
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I’m actually thinking of doing plants instead of bare bottom. Not extreme but need to research substrate. I don’t want to worry about cleaning gravel so prefer something where waste sits on top and will get pulled into filters easily.
Sand. Too compacted and you’ll have issues with anaerobic pockets creating sulfur dioxide. Go with a grade similar to PFS. You can put a layer of laterite and then cover that layer with mesh netting. Put the PFS/sand over the mesh layer.
mrrobxc i was thinking miracle grow or there is his stuff that is used on baseball fields that I know many people use. Need to find the name again
Any organic additive free soil will work but you’ll want to mineralize it and cap it with sand. Sounds like you’re going with some serious planting. Looking forward to see this come to life.
Oh hell no. I have no experience with plants at all. I want to do two large Amazon’s like yours. Each to be in front of the hmf corner filters to mask them. Then want to a tree trunk in the middle of the tank. Final touches was thinking of some tall background plants and maybe like dwarf grass. I want as little maintenance as possible.
Soil comes with a lot of cost/downsides. Amazon swords are easy enough that you can use straight PFS with root tabs or you can use PFS throughout your tank and use shallow pots with soil for the swords.
