The filter that never was
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Here's our new 55 gallon. Its got the one E. Blue female in it now but soon will house the few dozen or so fry that are now in the QT tank. I think the plan is to take the picks of the litter and donate them to our LFS. Then do some intentional cichlid breeding. I like the idea of E. Blues actually ot Venustus. Any suggestions?
There are salt-tolerant plants that can work with cichlids. The trouble with plants and cichlids is the digging they tend to do for those plants that are ok with their water. A friend of mine (I wish she would send me some photos and I could post them) does plants in terracotta pots in her cichlid tanks. The pots are about 1/2 full of substrate and then topped off with small rocks. At first, they'd dislodge some of the rocks, but eventually, all was left alone.
Or you can check other forums for items for sale/trade. I got my first plants for my current 40gallon breader tank for $20, and that included shipping. I could not plant them all, and traded about 1/3 of them to my LFS for store credit.
When I did 8 tanks up in Iowa, I sold clippings to friends, just for the postage cost.
If you do a 'grab bag,' you will not be sure of what you get. You need to know a bit about plant structures (so you don't bury rhizome plants in the substrate, etc.), but its fun (to me) to see what you get. You won't have things individually labeled so you must do some research once they start growing to see what you ended up with, if you are curious.
When I did 8 tanks up in Iowa, I sold clippings to friends, just for the postage cost.
If you do a 'grab bag,' you will not be sure of what you get. You need to know a bit about plant structures (so you don't bury rhizome plants in the substrate, etc.), but its fun (to me) to see what you get. You won't have things individually labeled so you must do some research once they start growing to see what you ended up with, if you are curious.
aquaticjungles.com is a great plant site. i belive he is based in cleavland as well. u can watch his videos on plants and dirted tanks on youtube. it's under dustinsfishtanks. also on fishtanktv.com he gets some realy cool stuff in and he knows his crap lol. that is where i got all my info for doing a planted tank. and it's all low tech low cost growing. thats what i love. no ferts, no co2 to remember filling, u can get away with lower lighting then normal high tech tanks i have found out. it's something to look into. also pretty quick to do. i have taken down a tank, dirted, planted, and stocked within a few hours.