My Planted Fish Tank **updated**

[Corleone]

thats not what i read on this particular forum, wish i could find the link.

I wish you could, too. I have twelve sites that I check before I give info on a fish I'm not entirely familiar with - nine of them give 36", the rest give 24". I do have a book that coincides with your info, but it heavily overstates all the tank sizes it gives - usually twice even the most generous advice I see on this forum (examples include 250 gallons for a single oscar, 600 for frontosa, 125 for angelfish). My general experience is sources that give erratic basic info like size and tank requirements are outright bad when it comes to more specific info.

 

[TimNorwich]

hey thanks guys, I appreciate you backing me, I'm making more caves/holes for the loaches soon out of rocks so hopefully they will thrive more

 

[GatorJ]

ok now that all of that is settled, i am interested in the diy co2 thing. is it cheap? and how does it help i guess.
2 of my tanks are planted and theyve been doing ok but not "flurishing" so to speak.

the first pic bottom right hand i have that same plant and love it

 

[TimNorwich]

diffuser off ebay for 5£
Empty 2litre coke bottle
Piece of tubing I found in shed
Bag of sugar which will last me for 4 refills
And a pot of dry yeast which will last aaages
Oh and some no nails/household sealant which can usually be found in a shed or garage lol

I'll find the website I used for you later

Hope this helps for now

 

[Truck]

a 4" fish in a record 70 its the same as putting one in a rekord 60 only its 10 cm higher!

a zebra loach is a fairly active fish that needs atleast a 3 foot tank to be happy.

keeping clown loaches in tanks my size if not smaller

a clown loach will grow to half the size of your tank.

thats away from the point, you should be taking action on your own tank, thats not someones elses fault. if they want to have big fish in a little tank then thats their problems, what you do not want to do is have to rehome. or even kill the fish as the tank is too small and they get too stresses. just next time, do some research.

i back nick 16 on this thread as it is in the best interest of the fish that it is kept in a tank that it has lots of space. a rekord 120 would suffice.

in this hobby you cant cut corners to get more fish in your tank. this will lead to . . . . DISASTER

just because someone else hasnt failed doesnt mean you wont! as the smokers saying goes

smoker"oh my dad smokes 80 a day in is 96 years old"
advisor"well that doesnt mean you will live to such an age"

 

[Nick16]

yeah, the more room for them the better. diy co2 is easy

 

[TimNorwich]

This is the website I used for the basis of my system
<a href="http/www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumap...es-recipes.html" target="_blank">http/www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumap...es-recipes.html</a>

I think the only thing I did different was to seal around the top of the bottle (not just relying on the lid being air tight enough to keep the co2 in. Oh and I didn't use baking soda



This site has some useful information about Co2
<a href="http/www.thekrib.com/Plants/CO2/co2-narten.html" target="_blank">http/www.thekrib.com/Plants/CO2/co2-narten.html</a>

thats not what i read on this particular forum, wish i could find the link.

I wish you could, too. I have twelve sites that I check before I give info on a fish I'm not entirely familiar with - nine of them give 36", the rest give 24". I do have a book that coincides with your info, but it heavily overstates all the tank sizes it gives - usually twice even the most generous advice I see on this forum (examples include 250 gallons for a single oscar, 600 for frontosa, 125 for angelfish). My general experience is sources that give erratic basic info like size and tank requirements are outright bad when it comes to more specific info.

For those that don't think my tank is the adiquet size, have a good couple of reads of what Corleone put and then re-consider what you are saying.

How do you people that are consistently trying to prove me wrong know that the source you have for your information are reliable ?

 

[Truck]

i use 5 sources of information all say the same thing. for fairness. for a zebra loach to be happy it needs a 3 foot + they are quite active fish at night.

 

[TimNorwich]

~So why not take your brilliant information a little bit further and tell the websites that give so called false information to correct it. Wise ass, at the end of the day nobody can really tell what the correct tank size is, they can just go off how the fish look, and at the time being they look happier than anything. So can we please leave this now and let me have a post like you'd want/expect a post.

 

[Nick16]

haha truck, a newbie trying to tell us we are badly wrong!

 

[angelmouse]

If they outgrow it then I'll rehome them

give newbies a break, we've all been there.

 

[Nick16]

some are not as ignorant and forceful as others. take in the info not just throw it back.