White cloud minnows and celestial pearl danios and pygmy corys and two flavors of shrimp and all the snails. It's a happy bog, although the danios are screwing way too much.
The secret to nitrate removal? Aquarium plants and floating plants and filter plants and watering plants with aquarium water. Simple.
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18 Comments
Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 167d
Wow looks really cool. Doing this right seems quite hard.
Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 166d
It just takes patience. Everything happens slower in a tank like this. There's sifted dirt on the bottom and then sand on top of that, so the plants have plenty of nutrients in the substrate. I deliberately introduced the dreaded Malaysian trumpet snails to keep the substrate stirred up. Lots of plants, nothing fancy just plenty of stems, mostly pearlweed. I've been dealing with a lot of hair algae but I got some amanos shrimp a couple weeks ago and they're beating it back. It's just a little ecology and I think a lot about every change before I make it.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 165d
Malaysian trumpet snails, you say? My 75 gallon has a writhing mass for a substrate at feed time. They're so prolific they keep the glass clean at night.
Our spotted congo puffer is fat and sassy on crunchy snacks.
Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 165d
People get mad about them but I agree they work great and are mostly asleep when I'm awake.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 165d
Btw a siamese algae eater might be pereft for yor algae woes. Mine was added mainly for BBA but they really lived up to their name.
If your trumpets get too out of control: yoyo or clown loaches are great at snail control.
Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 159d
Respect mate
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 167d
Got a non imgur link? It's blocked here
Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 166d
WTH. It was working fine, I wonder what happened.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 165d
Working for me at the moment.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 167d
Ahhhh, your tank is so pretty!
mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 167d
What a lively tank!
Celestial pearl danios are some of the prettiest aquarium fish lol they look like mini trout :D
Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 166d
They look a lot like Brook Trout which are my favorites so it's no accident I ended up keeping them!
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 165d
With the serious drop in fertilizer, I bet people would be willing to pay you for the water.
standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 167d
Love this setup idea! What filter are you using?
Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 166d
None! That hang on back refugium just has some hydroton to give the plants something to hold onto and there's a power head pushing water around but that's it.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 165d
Beautiful!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 165d
Galaxy danios come from like tiny 3 puddles in northern Mexico, and that's it. They're a weird cross between super rare and ubiquitous.
Let them fuck.
Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 165d
I'm powerless to stop them.