The tank gets about a 40% water change ever other
week and gravel cleaning. At that time I add liquid fertilizer.
I use Florapride.
For my substrate I use small pebbles with laterite.
The filter for this tank had to be a submersible,
because of the water line being about 3" from the top. I narrowed
it down to two filters, the Fluval and a Duetto filter. I chose
the Duetto DJ100. The reason for my choosing this filter was because
it had a prefilter, a bacterial sponge, and a small place to put
carbon. The Fluval only had a sponge. I actually cut some of the
sponge in the Duetto Filter and placed ceramic beads for bacteria
to grow on in the filter. This filter gets cleaned once a month.
I have the following plants in this
tank; Egeria densa, Ceratophyllum demersum, Cryptocoryne wendtii,
and Rotala rotundifolia.
