Bethany
Well-known member
I'm trying my first planted aquarium. I have a 55gallon that I bought used to try it. It came with a jbj compact fluorescent hood that had bulbs I couldn't use so I ordered these hoping they work, they are 6500K, but they are 65 watt and my hood has 4 bulbs so that is 4.7 watts per gallon.
Which brings me too can you have too many watts per gallon?
I tried to pick plants that have moderate to high lighting requirements. These are the plants I have picked I have not ordered any yet, but I was looking at live aquaria. Wisteria, Cabomba, Myrio, Green, Myrio, Red, Ludwigia Peruensis, Rotala Indica, Ludwigia, Broad, Potted Dwarf Baby Tears, Four Leaf Clover - Potted, Micro Sword- Potted, Rotala Nanjenshan, Anubias nana on Driftwood
There are few options on beginner plants so please tell me if any of these are too hard to keep or will not mix well?
As far as substrate I tried a diy recipe I found on yahoo, it is manure compost, bone meal, pond fertilizer tables, and mason sand. I cleaned that sand for hours only to put 5 gallons in today to keep it moist and the water turned black from the manure compost. I went ahead and filled it up to try and get it settled and filtered.
I also have high ph so I need to adjust that. I've never worried with all this testing or adjusting my water so info on that will be great.
I have ordered a magnum 350 canister pro filter, flourish, trace, potassium, nitrogen, excel, and iron. Basically I got a flourish kit and ordered trace and potassium because some of the plants I picked said they needed these.
I also bought 2 of these yeast co2 things. The store only had two, and now looking back I would have been just as well off buying an injector kit. I'm not sure how to go about shutting it off at night, but I'll come up with something.
Bringing me to my next question could this produce too much co2? I do intend to have fish in there as well?
Thanks for any help and info.
Which brings me too can you have too many watts per gallon?
I tried to pick plants that have moderate to high lighting requirements. These are the plants I have picked I have not ordered any yet, but I was looking at live aquaria. Wisteria, Cabomba, Myrio, Green, Myrio, Red, Ludwigia Peruensis, Rotala Indica, Ludwigia, Broad, Potted Dwarf Baby Tears, Four Leaf Clover - Potted, Micro Sword- Potted, Rotala Nanjenshan, Anubias nana on Driftwood
There are few options on beginner plants so please tell me if any of these are too hard to keep or will not mix well?
As far as substrate I tried a diy recipe I found on yahoo, it is manure compost, bone meal, pond fertilizer tables, and mason sand. I cleaned that sand for hours only to put 5 gallons in today to keep it moist and the water turned black from the manure compost. I went ahead and filled it up to try and get it settled and filtered.
I also have high ph so I need to adjust that. I've never worried with all this testing or adjusting my water so info on that will be great.
I have ordered a magnum 350 canister pro filter, flourish, trace, potassium, nitrogen, excel, and iron. Basically I got a flourish kit and ordered trace and potassium because some of the plants I picked said they needed these.
I also bought 2 of these yeast co2 things. The store only had two, and now looking back I would have been just as well off buying an injector kit. I'm not sure how to go about shutting it off at night, but I'll come up with something.
Bringing me to my next question could this produce too much co2? I do intend to have fish in there as well?
Thanks for any help and info.