hi all, intending to set up my 2ft cube tank. can anyone advise me what are the type of soil, fert and gravel to be put into the tank? in terms of layer too. thanks.
two layers will do fine. bottom layer you can put base fertilizers such as ada power sand, jbl aqua basis, sera floradepot, etc. the upper layer will be your gravel, fine sand, aqua soil, etc.
if you have already planned your aquascape, you will know how much substrate you require. e.g. if there are many slopes in your tank, you will need more substrate material. or you can improvise and add large flat rocks or empty egg cartons at the bottom layer to increase the height of the substrate.
Yecch!
1. Think about what you want to plant first.
2. If you are looking for soil that stablise the water at certain ph level, rich in nutrients then Ada Aqua soil amazonia II is the one for you (without the fert. base), this is for low ph setup.
3. If you are looking for fert. based setup, then Denerelle or Nature soil should suffice with JBL Fert. It should be some soil, fert base, then the soil again. This is more towards the old type of setup. Note that you still be dosing Plant Nutrients. In this setup, ph will be high according to your tap. This is for high ph setup.
4. Another type of high ph setup is as of (3) but minus the fert. base. Nutrients are supplied via your manual dosing. Ada do have normal soil, malaya soil, etc.
You can drop yourself to BioTope (Marsiling), Aqua Star Trading (Yishun), Qianhu (near Sungei Gedong), C328 (Clementi) to see the range of soils available. Don't ask for recommendation at the shop before you decided what you want to plant, because the LFS owners will still ask you the same question
ok thanks all for the advises from all of you. i'm currently planting only Windelov on DW and tiger lotus. will be getting some normal carpet grass(need recommendation) and would be keeping cardinal tetras and the rummynose and afew otto. anyway if i were to get the soil and suich, how many KGs should i get? is it ok for me to get the GEX soil (red pack) and add some old sea mud in?
Actually, normal soil will do if you ask me. Cardinal can survive at higher ph range. Below PH6.4, its basically a killing range.
10-15kg should suffice. Depending on how deep you want your tank to be. Extra ones you can store in Cookie bottles or those CNY tibits plastic bottles. Put a plastic spoon in for skooping of soil. 15kg can form 4inch depth already. Take out your ruler and see it for yourself. 20kg if you want to form 5 inch depth.
hello all, i read and ordered a 02 X 9L pack of aqua soil amazonia. would it be sufficient? is there other gravel/sand/soil that is required to be added on top of them?
Hi,
Good to see you are going to start your planted tank.
As per my advise earlier, it really depends on what type of planted tank you intend to setup and the following points:
1. Low or High Maintainenance?
2. Budget?
3. Type of plants which is link to Point 1
4. Type of fishes?
If you want to see a partial ADA setup using the substrate / glassware / fertilizeration. You can pop by. (However facing a bit of alage problem due to work).
Cheers
Nicholas
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
hi wackytpt, no problem.. would not hesitate to give u a ring. but do u roughly know 3bags of 9L amazonia can fill how tight for my 2ft cube?
Should be more then enough plus the one you gotten from me.
Don't intend to get ADA power soil?
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
Good day Bro,
Since the topic if base on Soil Requirement.
Pardon me for interepting, however me also keep in knowing the soil requirement too.
Mod, please pardon me.
Now me intended for Low / Semi maintaince tank, meaning it's okay for me to apply organic carbon as I have already gotten a bottle of Seachem Excel 500ml.
Plant I intended to keep is Fissiden only on DW & BW only, long passion on this plant.
As for fishes I am looking at Cardinal Tetra XL size, also long passion due to the colour.
Tank size that I am working at is about 49 * 38 * 32 cm.
Apparently I have gotten 2 Kg of Gex, was thinking of mixing. Also may plan to re-purchase ADA soil too. So any advice...
Thanks in advance for the advice.
Last edited by Wackytpt; 5th Jan 2010 at 22:44. Reason: IM LIngo
Please do not add any other substrate over your soil, you may not get the required results in this wayOriginally Posted by blk115
The pro has spoken. Haha...
Hi Thio,
I agreed with thio. Don't add anything over the ada substrate. =)
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
hahaha bro too high end for me.. think i will just stick to the amazonia. will most likely get another pack of 9L to play safe. what is the recommended height for the gravel?
Good day Bro,
Since the topic if base on Soil Requirement.
Pardon me for interupting, however me also keen in knowing the soil requirement too.
Mod, please pardon me.
Now me intended for Low or Semi tank, meaning it's okay for me to apply organic carbon such as Seachem Excel 500ml.
The plant I intended to keep is Fissiden only on DW & BW only, as for fishes I am looking at Cardinal Tetra XL size.
Tank size that I am working at is about 49 * 38 * 32 cm.
Apparently I have gotten 2 Kg of Gex unfortunately not enough to fill the tank to 1 cm thick. Now I am thinking of mixing, though of adding ADA Amazon on top of the present Gex.
Kindly advice. if latter is workable?
Or I should work on Gex alone?
Does Gex soil suitable for Cardinal Tetra?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel
Last edited by Wackytpt; 6th Jan 2010 at 22:38. Reason: IM Lingo
Daniel,
Watch on your IM Lingo.
If you haved used GenX soil then top up with the same one.
I personally don't advise people to mix soil.
Cheers
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
alright i've pour everything in and filled with water already.. Cycling tank now. Anyway where can get wondergro fertiliser?
Thanks Nicolas for the point.
Anyway please pardon me, what IM Lingo?
Cheers
Daniel
Short forms. =)
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
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