Mini Tank

[danielp]

Considering setting up a 5 to 20 gallon tank on my kitchen counter. Want to do a live plant theme without using co2.

Any suggestions?

[wesleydnunder]

Many bottom cover plants like glosso really like co2 and often won't do well without it. I have a couple of 20L planted with anubias barteri, crypt. wendtii bronze, crypt. spiralis, java fern, java moss, hygro, sag. subulata and rotala that get no fert. or carbon supplements and the plants look great.

Mark

[CichlidFan]

Not a planted tank guy, but if you got any sunlight coming into the kitchen, try to take advantage of it. I know my kitchen tanks produce algae quickly in the sunlight.

Good Luck with the mini...

CF

[TaTeR ToT]

i have a 10g planted shrimp tank and a 5.5g planted cory/endler tank, and i have 2 big windows in my room, i have a 24watt powercompact on my 5.5g, and a 15watt lifeglo on my 10g , and i leave my shades up on my windows, and i am getting good growth form both tanks, i just use seachem flourish every 3 days.
i am going to start dosing seachem flourish excel, and seachem flourish iron though just for that added boost.
but yeah take advantage of the natural sunlight.
my plantlist for the 10g is -
hygrophilia
xmas moss
flamemoss
java moss
and a couple java ferns, and they hygro and moss is kicking but, the crypts are growing decent, but i think when i upgrade lighting to the 28watt powercompact, i will see better growth.
also, in the 5.5g
i have -

2 -sm clumps of hornwort
2 - crypt. wendtii green
1 - crypt. lucens
and 1 - sm clump of frill.

[danielp]

All good stuff. I like the cory tank idea. Making it something unique along this lines is a good idea. Fish Gallery has licorice groumies and such for micro tanks.

I like the ada tanks because they look so clean. HAW has a good selection right now. Lights are a little on the high side though.

Any equipment ideas?

I have a old red sea co2 reactor not sure if the yeast refills are still out there and the power head would take up a lot of room in a small tank.

Great suggestions on the plants. I've had bronze wendti before nice plant.

[mahoro]

anything java will be fine, the crypt will be fine too, all the moss, blyxa japonica, dwarf sag, four leaf clover-like plant (cant remember the name) most val will all be fine... and ofcourse duckweed...

[mahoro]

and most anubias will be fine too...

[danielp]

Mahoro,

What kind of tank and light are you running?

[mahoro]

i got the 27w full spec light from home depot, its like 20 bucks on both my 10g, and 2 of those on my 20l, for the 34 i run a 10k 18w t5 and a 6500k 65w cf, turtle tank got no plants other then duckweed so its on a basking lamp, but for some reason the duckweed seens to do very well in it...

[danielp]

Thanks Ciclidfan. Good luck with the move.

I think from a package standpoint at nano 6 or 12 gallon tank might be the way to go.

[fishlady]

i have a tank that has a built in wet/dry in the back of it....it's probably a little bigger than a 10 gallon....but it's really cool....it's topless and i have a nice piece of driftwood and a light that will make plants flourish in it that i might consider selling for the right price....
pm me if your interested and i will snap some pics of it for you.....

[danielp]

pm on the way.

[TaTeR ToT]

i have a tank that has a built in wet/dry in the back of it....it's probably a little bigger than a 10 gallon....but it's really cool....it's topless and i have a nice piece of driftwood and a light that will make plants flourish in it that i might consider selling for the right price....
pm me if your interested and i will snap some pics of it for you.....

:|:confused:

[TaTeR ToT]

[fishlady]

okay here's the tank.....
i sent you a pm on the pricing of it......