ksam
Fish Fanatic
I've decided to plant up one of my teeny tanks (about 20 litres) at the moment it has bogwood with javamoss & java fern attachted to it (cuttings taken from other tanks 
) I'd like it nicely planted with smaller plants with the bogwood being the main thing giving a little bit of hight to the tank (if that makes sense, lol).
I'm wanting it nice and simple looking, possibly a lawn of glosso & bogwood covered in either riccia or java moss, I can add a small slate cave aswell which I was thinking of covering with the riccia/moss
Tank details are:
temp 23 °c
KH 3 (sometimes lower)
GH~1 (very soft water)
PH 6.3
Here's the question part
Can anyone recommend a suitable lighting unit to add to the tank (also where to get them from), the lid is plastic so can't take the heat of a T5 tube, it's about 30cm long aswell so difficult to find suitable tubes to fit (or one's that don't cost the earth ). The tank must have the lid on since I've got a very nosy cat, who would love to stick his little paws in and chase the fishies .
Does glosso do better in a very fine gravel substrate or can it do well with sand?? I usually add a layer of cactus compost underneath the gravel/sand which I find works well.
Will probally add some basic CO2 unit to the tank aswell once the lights are sorted.
anything else I've left out??
Any help would be greatly appreciated (& clippings if anyone has them, hehe might aswell ask )
) I'd like it nicely planted with smaller plants with the bogwood being the main thing giving a little bit of hight to the tank (if that makes sense, lol).I'm wanting it nice and simple looking, possibly a lawn of glosso & bogwood covered in either riccia or java moss, I can add a small slate cave aswell which I was thinking of covering with the riccia/moss
Tank details are:
temp 23 °c
KH 3 (sometimes lower)
GH~1 (very soft water)
PH 6.3
Here's the question part
Can anyone recommend a suitable lighting unit to add to the tank (also where to get them from), the lid is plastic so can't take the heat of a T5 tube, it's about 30cm long aswell so difficult to find suitable tubes to fit (or one's that don't cost the earth
). The tank must have the lid on since I've got a very nosy cat, who would love to stick his little paws in and chase the fishies .Does glosso do better in a very fine gravel substrate or can it do well with sand?? I usually add a layer of cactus compost underneath the gravel/sand which I find works well.
Will probally add some basic CO2 unit to the tank aswell once the lights are sorted.
anything else I've left out??
Any help would be greatly appreciated
(& clippings if anyone has them, hehe might aswell ask )
I've got the Interpet Compact T5 in a larger tank, they get really hot, they even melted the brackets they came with to hold them onto the lid!!! (Nice big heavy duty holders now, lol).
looks like I might have a bit of trouble sorting this one out 
Bit of DIY now, sure I can fix something suitable up 
