Can someone give this a quick lookover and let me know if I've missed anything or gotten anything wrong. I've done EI tanks in the past with great success, but all were broken down early last year due to health issues. Now that I am recovering I want to setup a tank again, but it has to be small and manageable (low maintenence) since I am not 100% yet.
I've setup a 10gal tank. No ferts added yet (plans listed below for you to look over).
Lighting: 28w PC: This is what I had available. Its a little higher than suggestions I've seen. Have a large amount of hornwort to get some emersed growth and shade out the tank a little bit. It looks about right with the hornwort (gut feeling). 12 hours on now, should I reduce to 10?
Substrate: 1 bag flourite and 3/4 lb leonarite. I started with just the flourite as I had it laying around (and habit from my EI tanks which were flourite only). After reading around I see that non-CO2 tanks need more organics in the substrate than I'm used to. I ordered some leonarite online and plan to add 3/4 lb to the substrate. Hoping this will be easy since it is supposed to sink, but since its only a 10gal and fairly new I don't mind a tear down to add it if needed. Shouldn't be hard.
Plants: Tank is planted heavily with "easier" stem plants I've had good success with before in EI tanks. Anacharis, Ludwigia, Cabomba, Wisteria. Also a large portion of hornwort is floating to somewhat shade the lower portions of the tank and (hopefully) help outcompete algae since it is grown emersed and is not co2 limited.
Fish: Currently 1 betta and 3 cories. I have no idea about what kind of eventual fish load to shoot for with this style tank. Examples would be appreciated, although I figured this would have to go by feel. I would rather have added algae eaters first, but there is a poor selection of poor quality fish in the stores I'm able to get to. I figured I'd place a plant order online when I'm ready to phase out a lot of the stem plants used for startup and get some then. Not ideal, I know, but I don't want to add poor quality and/or unsuitable fish.
Ferts: None yet. Plans are 1/16 tsp KNO3, 1/64 tsp KH2PO4, 2.5 mL Flourish added every 2 weeks as a baseline, frequency to be adjusted if it seems to need more. Please double check these numbers for me. This style tank is very new to me. The ferts seem really, really light compared to what I'm used to, but they're supposed to be from what I've read. It just feels weird hehe.
Filter: Just a Fluval 1.
Thanks in advance!
I've setup a 10gal tank. No ferts added yet (plans listed below for you to look over).
Lighting: 28w PC: This is what I had available. Its a little higher than suggestions I've seen. Have a large amount of hornwort to get some emersed growth and shade out the tank a little bit. It looks about right with the hornwort (gut feeling). 12 hours on now, should I reduce to 10?
Substrate: 1 bag flourite and 3/4 lb leonarite. I started with just the flourite as I had it laying around (and habit from my EI tanks which were flourite only). After reading around I see that non-CO2 tanks need more organics in the substrate than I'm used to. I ordered some leonarite online and plan to add 3/4 lb to the substrate. Hoping this will be easy since it is supposed to sink, but since its only a 10gal and fairly new I don't mind a tear down to add it if needed. Shouldn't be hard.
Plants: Tank is planted heavily with "easier" stem plants I've had good success with before in EI tanks. Anacharis, Ludwigia, Cabomba, Wisteria. Also a large portion of hornwort is floating to somewhat shade the lower portions of the tank and (hopefully) help outcompete algae since it is grown emersed and is not co2 limited.
Fish: Currently 1 betta and 3 cories. I have no idea about what kind of eventual fish load to shoot for with this style tank. Examples would be appreciated, although I figured this would have to go by feel. I would rather have added algae eaters first, but there is a poor selection of poor quality fish in the stores I'm able to get to. I figured I'd place a plant order online when I'm ready to phase out a lot of the stem plants used for startup and get some then. Not ideal, I know, but I don't want to add poor quality and/or unsuitable fish.
Ferts: None yet. Plans are 1/16 tsp KNO3, 1/64 tsp KH2PO4, 2.5 mL Flourish added every 2 weeks as a baseline, frequency to be adjusted if it seems to need more. Please double check these numbers for me. This style tank is very new to me. The ferts seem really, really light compared to what I'm used to, but they're supposed to be from what I've read. It just feels weird hehe.
Filter: Just a Fluval 1.
Thanks in advance!