Can I Have A Planted Tank With Just Gravel As The Substrate?
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- I want a planted tank, but only have gravel, can I have a planted tank? What are your thoughts? TANK ON!
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Agent Smith from Matrix is now fish keeping😂
Put enough root tabs and boom your good
Damn you're still at this. You were one of the people that got me into keeping planted tanks forever ago
His company took off man, I'm pretty sure he's a huge plant supplier
Use epiphytes like anubias and Java fern🙂
i dont think hes limited by gravel at all he just has to wait a couple years for mulm buildup start with rhysome plants
we're coming to rescue morpheus
I'm in the process of trying to add stratum under my sand. I'm losing the battle, but its getting in there! I can say, the growth with 4 pounds of stratum in there right now is exponentially greater for my sword plants than just sand and root tabs!! They have literally grown 3" in a week. I had to cut them back because of a crash, and I thought they were dead.
One of the biggest problems with just gravel is bioload. One betta? Not growing many plants. A school of fish, depending on size, can keep even vallisneria happy. If all else fails, freeze some dirt in ice cube trays and shove it in under your gravel, just plan on cleaning your tank a few times after that.
Valid response so basically just be conscious of a proper fish to plant ratio?
@Romeo Cano Yup. I don't gravel vac my gravel tanks anymore, but I still swap out several gallons of water at water change time. A pre filter on the HOB helps keep a lot of the big debris out between changes, so the water stays clear. From my experience, easy plants are fine with that setup, but dirted tanks are still the way to go since the plants have an easier time acclimating to the nutrient rich soil and can start propagating sooner.
I Plant swords and crypts in pond baskets with eco complete. I dose liquid fertilizers which the plants absorb easily through their roots that over time extend outside the openings in the plant baskets. I have been told by many of my channel followers that they have never seen healthy, giant swords and crypts like mine. More ways to "skin a cat" in growing aquarium plants
Why are you looking at me through your eyebrows. It's menacing 😮
i have just river soil and root based plants , they been growing for long time , but give them good light , they get their nutrients through fish waste, the fish waste will be filtered into soil , so give it a try
As long as the tank is well established and has plenty of nutrients such as fish poop in the gravel most plants will live, trust me I've done it for years, API leaf zone is also a great product to use and so is root tabs
I have anubias nana, java fern, hornswort and Indica.. still do we need sand?
Fish poop
I use just plain caribsea sand in my tank and grow swords, rotala, water sprite and all other types of other various crypts with zero issues.
Start with dirt Cap with Gravel. Go to kroger and buy some tilapia, cut it up and bury it deep in that substrate.
I've gotten into house plants growing outside the aquarium and the roots dangling into the water. Great for the plants, great for cleaning the water.
There are lots of UA-cam videos about this.
Biology checks out
As a gravel tank owner there is one quick easy way to have a planted gravel tank.
The first few weeks just add liquid fertilizer until the tank has matured
My definition of a matured tank is low maintenance, which is a stable tank that has it's own stable ecosystem that does not require water changes when the plants can filter the water and the fish can fertilize your plants through nitrogen cycling
This is BS. Plants will grow just fine in gravel and have for a hundred years of the hobby. See all that brown water in the gravel? There’s plenty of nutrients in the gravel of an established tank. And if there isn’t then a couple of root tabs will put it right.
Exponentially doesn't mean what you think it does, pal.
I had a pure sand substrate, no dirt or aqua soil underneath, I am a firm believer in father fishes teachings, never had a single issue with growing a full, healthy plant. About once a month a add a little fertilizer. Haven’t lost a single plant and they are all growing a thriving.
Just float the plants. Check out LRB... He's got a video where he's got over 10 types of plants that can be grown floating and these do not include your usual floating plants. ✌️
You look like a Batman villain 😂
Just use liquid fertilizer.
Put root tabs in the gravel. Done
Not to mention most fish don’t like a gravel substrate and would prefer a more sandy/silty substrate
That's what everyone puts on top of the dirt so it won't get your tank dirty and milky everytime a fish touches it
How do you know they don’t like gravel? Do they tell you?
@@giftandeagledelacerda1279 or you can use sand
@@thegamechanger2058 most fish are used to a sandy substrate. and fish like loaches and corydoras can actually hurt there whiskers on gravel where as they can sift through the sand looking for food
@@finnalexander17I've had Corey Doris and Dojo loaches on eco complete for 2 years and it has not damaged their barbles they use suction like little vacuum cleaners
Thanks Dustin I'll put in a new order for more plants ,
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Can we put dirt at the bottom cover it with gravel i that wilk do it
That's the way it's done is you add dirt you add a cap
Yup, just make it deep like 4 (or more) inches and DO NOT vacuum the gravel.
How do water changes work? or do you just add more water?
@@Offonweekends I replace evaporated water with R.O. or distilled. Otherwise the mineral content builds up fast.