My 6.6g L :D river bed tank :)

I started a thread in the DIY section and got some advice about small filters. One member suggested the Aqua Clear Series vs. Whisper. Whisper is what I was thinking of buying, but after reading the post I am going to look into the Aqua Clear filters.

There are products to control algae, but since you have some shrimp in the tank you need a certain amount of natural algae. With the stock lighting that you have the plants that you can keep are limited. I have stock lighting in my 20 gallon long with my White Cloud Minnows and the only plants I can keep are "floaters" - easy to keep low light plants which in my case are Java Fern, Java Moss (which shrimp love and thrive in) and Hornwort.
 
I read over the posts in this thread. I guess you are thinking about Cherry Shrimp but didn't purchase them yet? If and when you get shrimp it is beneficial to have algae. However, as many will tell you they can't control all of it.
 
Yah i don't have rcs yet but as soon as mg gets home i will be ordering some

im actually planing on getting ghost shrimp this weekend ... like 12-13 some will go in my
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once i get the rcs i will feed the ghost shrimp to flag my festivum :D

this lighting is bright ... is it brightness that plants need or what do you mean bye stock lighting are you assuming sense its stock it sucks *** cause thats how paintball is you buy a gun the next thing you buy is after market parts to slap on it.

i plan on keeping java moss and java fern those are both very low light i doubt i will have any problems :)
 
Stock lighting is the basic lighting that comes with the kit. You can keep plants, but you are limited to plants that are sold as "low light". My husband and I are newbies to this hobby even though we had a community tank several years ago, and I too thought that as long as the light came with the aquarium kit, I could keep any plant sold for aqauriums. If you go through the aquatic plant forums you will see that although the lights might be bright, you are actually limited as to what would thrive in your aquarium. I found this out after having several plants die. Lighting sold in kits isn't bad its just that you are limited. I can tell you from experience that Java Fern and Java Moss will thrive in your aquarium with little care. They are very hardy.
 
ok sweet um about lighting .... do you think a setup like this would be ok?

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thats the stock lighting held up bye two glasses i stole from the kitchen :P

how would plants do?
 
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It depends on the specific lighting. For example, the wattage of the fluorescent lighting. I'm new to the lighting needs of plants as well. For example, I have an Eclipse 3 hood on my 20 gallon long. I assumed that I could keep any plant as long as I had the correct substrate. Now I see that there are "retro fit" kits to change the lighting to something more elaborate for different plants. My suggestion would be to post in the aquatic plant forums. Something that I think is misleading for many of us is that places like Petco and Petsmart put all of their plants together in one tank with the same lighting, giving the impression that "one size fits all". It wasn't until I went into a LFS and saw that different plants were in different tanks with different care instructions. It would be a good idea to ask someone in the plant forums.
 
Java Moss and Java Fern would do just fine with that lighting. That I can tell you for sure.
 
PufferFan said:
ok sweet um about lighting .... do you think a setup like this would be ok?
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uhhh.... As is, the lights with the glasses as support does not look stable at all. There is a huge risk of things getting broken and electrocuted if something knocks into the tank. I hope that is just a demo of how it's going to look in the end. Aside from that, it's a little high from the top of the tank; think about positioning it closer to the surface.
 
JoeQuality said:
uhhh.... As is, the lights with the glasses as support does not look stable at all. There is a huge risk of things getting broken and electrocuted if something knocks into the tank. I hope that is just a demo of how it's going to look in the end. Aside from that, it's a little high from the top of the tank; think about positioning it closer to the surface.
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lol that was just a demo i took the pictures and then took it down :)

and if i was gunna do that i would make it much closer :)
 
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