I just planted my first Amazon Sword! I have black sand as my substrate because I did not know how into planted aquariums I would get. I would like any tips about them that anyone may have. Also, my next endeavor is planting an Anubias on a piece of driftwood.
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Hey Jared
If you could tell us a little more about your tank, like size, lighting and filtration, any fish you have, things like that. Will be much easier to help you with a little more info :)
My first tank is:
10 gallon
I recently upgraded my lights from incandescent to two florescent bulbs.
They are 600 lumens each and 10 watts each.
I have a cheap, standard filter going through a blue charcoal pad and a bio filter.
3 Danios and 1 Black Molly and 1 Silver Molly, 1 African Dwarf Frog
I have one Amazon Sword currently that is planted into my substrate up to the crown. I read I should trim off dead leaves and roots and snip ends of good roots to promote growth, so I did that.
Substrate is black coarse sand.
I plan on slowly upgrading anything I need to as a learn more. I am super interested at this point but I want to do it correctly so I am not just going out to the store and buying everything I "think" I need.
Thanks for any help and advice. I will heed and it and greatly appreciate it.
So are the amazon sword and the anubias your only plants?
Yes, and no, I do not have the Anubias yet.But yes, the Amazon sword is currently my only plant. I just planted it recently. I trimmed off any dead leaves and roots, and snipped the ends of the good roots to promote growth. I will update my specs to add my plants. I guess that's kind of a Duh.
Well, if you plan on growing more plants, i would suggest getting some sort of substrate to put under your sand, such as dirt or eco complete or flourite. It gives your plants something to feed from. They will grow better. and i think your lighting is okay for low light plants.
Ok, that was one of two of my main concerns. I know its newb lighting but I hoped it would do for now. Glad to hear that. OK so I guess my first mission is to upgrade my substrate. I'm guessing Ill have to remove most of my sand, put in new substrate, then recover with sand(which I like). Is one easier to keep and better for beginners than another. For instance I've read dirt is hard to keep in beginning, requiring massive water changes and what not. Thanks.
Yeah you could just put the new substrate under the sand it would work fine. Well i did something similar to that with my substrate and i had eco complete and sand. The eco complete is working pretty well so far. its also looks good with the sand. i think that would be a good way to go for a tank thats already established. you can buy it on any website that sells fish supplies one like http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=9087
OK, I think Ill do a Eco complete substrate. Is that a substitute for tab fertilizers? As in, is that all I need to feed rooted plants?
OK. I think that will be whats next for me. Also, I think I want to get a piece of driftwood going. Ever prepared one for a tank?
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