Confirmation of my thoughts and research for my first tank.

Salt said:

@Sprizmo
Your tank looks amazing! I'm just starting a planted tank myself. I love your piece of wood
Do you remember the name of the grass like stuff you have? It looks like something that I would like in my tank.

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The bits of moss on the rocks and wood? That’s moss, I will get the name for you when I get back home. It’s from tropica, literally super glued onto the rock! The wood is English bogwood, got it from wildwoods in Enfield.

Sprizmo said:

The bits of moss on the rocks and wood? That’s moss, I will get the name for you when I get back home. It’s from tropica, literally super glued onto the rock! The wood is English bogwood, got it from wildwoods in Enfield.

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That's moss?? Wow! It's so long. (runs off to Google bogwood)

Sprizmo said:

There’s tropica substrate under black gravel, then black Limpopo sand in top. Originally was going to have gravel but the rainbowfish prefer sand so got some black sand to go over. All neutral so no effect on the pH

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Have you added a source of ammonia or is that the substrate leaching through?

Wills

Salt said:

That's moss?? Wow! It's so long. (runs off to Google bogwood)

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Yeah that’s moss. Haven’t trimmed it yet but yeah don’t want it that tall going forward. Link is:

Wills said:

Have you added a source of ammonia or is that the substrate leaching through?

Wills

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That’s gravel. When I was filling the tank some of it came up when I was old school pouring water into the tank

Think I have come into my first problem. Noticed this morning that there was something on my thermometer that wasn't there yesterday.
Looks like some spiders web and didn't smell that nice when I took it out. Only on the thermometer so that's been taken out and all trace of the white stuff has been removed.
Had a look on the internet and it seems to be a bacterial/fungal issue? What do I need to do?

pH is still 7.4
Ammonia is at 4ppm
Nitrates 0.5ppm
Nitrates at 10ppm