The water has aquarium salt in it from the previous fish (mollies and guppies). The tank has no fish now and i am wanting to transfer to live plants. The pH is around 7.0-7.3. and the temp is 82F. Rock surface. LOW WATT Lights. and two filters Emperor and Marineland biowheel.
2007-02-09 01:30:02 · 6 answers · asked by calliaudio 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
Reduce the salt, first. Depending on the concentration, your plants may not be happy with the salt in the water. Anything up to 1 flat tbsp per 5 gallons is fine for plants.
Also decrease the heat to 78F. Most fish and plants are happiest in the high 70's. Most plants will not do very well over 80F.
There are a number of nice lowlight plants:
Vallisneria (jungle, straight, spiral, or corkscrew)
Amazon swords
Java moss
Lace fern
Java fern
Crypts
Pennywort
Amazon frogbit (floating plant)
2007-02-09 05:28:22 · answer #1 · answered by Zoe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunlight is the WORST way to get light to the tank. Not only does it get too intense and will grow more algae than anything, it heats the tank and fluctuates with night and day cycles. As for pizza crust... that person obviously did not care about their fish... Now having said that a Fluorescent light is the best. It comes in a variety of watts and for a 55 gallon low light tank you could get away with as little as 110 watts or as much as 165-200 before you need Co2 to compensate for the amount of light.
2016-05-24 00:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most plants don't care for salt, so if your tank is nearing brackish, you need to start with water changes to reduce the salt content. In low light, plants such as java moss, java fern, vallisneria, aponogetum, and hornwort do well.
Good luck!
2007-02-09 02:09:01 · answer #3 · answered by Lady G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lower your salt levels then if you want something nice try to find "Water Sprite" it's a floating plant but if you can get it planted in the bottom it takes nicely and gets very bushy looks amazing
2007-02-11 16:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by avid-hunter6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though I have never tried it java fern is supposed to do very well in brackish water. In low watt light you should be able to keep anubias and cryptocorines without much problem.
2007-02-09 06:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
best getting artificial plants as they will not die and will last 4 ever!
2007-02-13 00:45:53 · answer #6 · answered by snowged 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋