Hello guys, almost a month ago I uninstalled my 65 gallon tank, it's completely empty, the reason is that I'm going to start from scratch, it was necessary to regain energy and motivation, several fish have gone, my beautiful penguin tetras now live in a 220 gallon tank with 12 discus fish, a school of more than 30 rummy nose tetra and other fish. I still have no idea of the aquascape in my rebuild in this tank, but I'm going to say goodbye to sand, plus I'll try low requirement plants again. Here I cannot get what you call "root tabs", so I'm thinking of placing the mineralized substrate that I prepared a while ago, and on top of fine gravel, do you think I should place some layer of something else between these two elements? I will also use Seachem Flourish as the main additive, the only plants I have in mind are Cryptocorines, maybe anubias as well, some low requirement plant ideas would be appreciated.
I'm going to put a back sump to improve filtration, that may have been the point where it failed to keep cichlids in the tank, they all died, some lasted longer than others, Apistogramma borelli lasted only a few days, and Apistogramma trifasciata was with me for a few months. Any design ideas from back sump folks?
This tank is still in a planning process, any ideas are welcome.
I'm going to put a back sump to improve filtration, that may have been the point where it failed to keep cichlids in the tank, they all died, some lasted longer than others, Apistogramma borelli lasted only a few days, and Apistogramma trifasciata was with me for a few months. Any design ideas from back sump folks?
This tank is still in a planning process, any ideas are welcome.