2.5g nano planted snail breeding tank

[TaTeR ToT]

Standard 2.5g glass tank

Pool filter sand
Cypress branches
Mexican river stones


Red sea nano hob filter
13watt 6500k coiled fluorescent light
10 watt marineland stealth pro heater

Java moss
Flame moss
Duck weed

Rams horn snails
Pond snails

Going to add a pair of dwarf neon rainbows
And some gold and green neon tetras


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Lmk what yall think.

[Mrs. Tittles]

Personally I think it's amazing. Lol.

[davemonkey]

Nice concept! With your lighting, you could actually grow a fair carpet of Lileaopsis or one of the dwarf hairgrasses (maybe Eleocharis microcarpa or E. parvula). Though, I suppose you'd have to fertilize a bit then.

-Dave

[TaTeR ToT]

How do you think regular hair grass would do in this tank with regular doing of Excel, would I still need a planted substrate?

I want to upgrade the lighting to a Coralife 9" t5 Ho twim bulb fixture down the road.
And possibly do Eco complete for the substrate.

[davemonkey]

I think any hairgrass will be fine. It's not so much the substrate as it is the nutrition needed, and excel is only a carbon supplement. Eco-Complete has some bits of micronutrients in it and might be okay with low light (like what you have now). If you upgrade the lighting, you'll need to increase ferts accordingly. As it stands now, you could grow hairgrass and it would stay small and grow slowly for you since the substrate has no real nutrition in it.