Higher Thinking Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Given the right setup, a healthy planted tank can grow pretty rapidly. That definitely makes me wish that coral could grow as fast as plants. My 75 gets so overgrown when I don't trim that my fish can't even swim around. Here is the tank after about two months of no trimming. Got in there with some scissors and hacked away to end up with this. Do any of y'all keep planted tanks? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthbound Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Ask and Receive 7g Starfire Cadlights, DIY led, pressurized CO2, running canister in closed loop through bulkheads, around 2 months old any comments welcome it is my first freshwater and I dont pretend to know what I am doing at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higher Thinking Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Nice work Earthbound. What's you method of diffusion on the CO2? Let me know if you need any plants. I got a bunch of Anubias nana and petite that would work great in there. Also got some crypts, java fern v. Windelov, and some other stuff. I used to have way more, but I've switched into a much lower maintenance plant collection. Basically ditched most all my stem plants, red plants, etc. As my picture shows, I don't keep up on my maintenance enough for the better plants since starting my reef. Everything gets overgrown and chokes stuff out. Tank used to look like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthbound Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 For right now I just run the CO2 into the intake bulkhead for the canister filter and by the time it goes through the filter and comes back it is all absorbed. I am looking into running a inline atomizer for it that way I can keep all equipment out of the tank which was one of my main goals when I started the tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higher Thinking Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 For right now I just run the CO2 into the intake bulkhead for the canister filter and by the time it goes through the filter and comes back it is all absorbed. I am looking into running a inline atomizer for it that way I can keep all equipment out of the tank which was one of my main goals when I started the tankSweet! I ran several tanks just inputting the line into the canister intake. I honestly think it can be just as effective as a diffuser or reactor. Although, I currently run a reactor on this tank. I think I do just because that's how I read it should be done when I first started. But since then I've become pretty confident with the filter diffusion method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanS Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Nice tank HT. My planted tanks get neglected during the holiday insanity, so here is their current state: 40 breeder 30 "riparium" Someday soon I'll spend the hour or so it will take to get them back to pretty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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