Re: Starting a planted tank
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Originally Posted by trouble93
Ok this is what I have so far...I don't have any water in the tank yet I don't want to set it up I don't have to hood done. I have a bag of peat moss a bag of sand and gravel phosban reactor(for carbon) co2 reactor and a few plants floating in another tank. I just might go a head and set it up tomorrow and use shop lights in the mean time. Is there anything else I may be missing?
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I think you got pretty much everything you need.
Hopefully the tank is in the final position in your house. Moving a setup tank is a real pain.
Skip the co2 and rodi. Just setup the tank with the plants and shop lights and let it set a week. You might be amazed at how easy this is. Of course you need the fast growing (anacharis and vals) and slow growing plants as I have stated many times before.
And use the layering trick on the substrate. Wish I had many years ago. I would have avoided many tanks with cloudiness the first few days.
my .02
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recent tanks (till 2009) 7 years- 10g FW leiden 7 yrs, 55g mixed reef 7, 2 yrs, 20g FW leiden, 10 g fw leiden , 29g mixed reef, current tank 55g leiden
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