Very nice tank, I have salt water fish now but too lazy to care for them so all die except a few blue devils. Will clean up the tank and keep some easy to maintain tropical fish and water plant.
Wa ... some more people that like to do aquatic planting. I dropped a message on MODI's thread as well. I used to have 3 tanks but now = NONE as no time to look after them.
The most stupid thing I ever done is to delete ALL the photos of my best tank ever built. I asked my friends to see if they have stored up my photos ... but they deleted them as well.
Been doing aquatic planting for over 6 years ... now, seem lonely without these plants, tanks and fishes around me.
For your question on substrate .... If you look at the photos I posted, I USED 3 levels of substrate. All of them are ADA products and VERY expensive. The base / fundation one needs not replace. You will need around 1" of those minimum. Then you can skip the mid level and go straight to the TOP one. I use DARK one as it lets the fishes show their full color.
ADA gives very good quality products at a price. From my experience, I would suggest buying their Fertilizer STICK. You insert them into the soil once every 3 months or so. It is more than enough.
Good supply of CO2 and lighting is tricky. If you don't change the water frequent enough, there will be algae. You will need a combination of FAST growing and slow growing plant. The FAST growing one to absorb the extra nutrients ..... so that algae won't build up.
I saw in your other thread's photo that you have quite some AZOO or alike product (RED BOTTLE). From my experience, they are not very useful.
For liquid fertilizer, the best I would suggest is Tropica MasterGrow. 香港水族器材 (can't recall the name) is selling them at around TWICE the should be price. If you need this fertilizer, I can give it to you at almost HALF the price.
Plants need quite a lot of iron, especially RED ones. Buy a Iron Testing kit and you can tell how good those fertilizers are. Drop one or two drops of fertilizer into the tube and add the testing solution. Some brands just won't give any result at all.
If you have further questions, drop me a note here. I am more than willing to answer.
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