Mustang Man Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 I kept Freshwater tanks a little over 10yrs ago before jumping into the Saltwater reef game. For years I've been wanting to set up a planted bowl, I had a bowl picked out already that was about 1.5g. I finally got some time off work and decided to jump in head first, I went shopping for a lamp to use over the bowl and while doing so found a nice 3g bowl for a great price so I swapped my original plan and decided to go with the larger bowl for more water volume. I decided to go with the Walstad method because I don't want to deal with a filter in the bowl. I started with a dirt base capped with Seachem Onyx. I used a piece of drift wood I picked up a couple years ago when I was originally coming up with this plan along with a couple small rocks I picked up at the LFS. The day I set the tank up I picked up an Amazon Compacta and some red root floaters. I ordered some plants from a member if another forum, mostly stem plants, and planted them as soon as they arrived. The picture I'm attaching is from before I swapped bulbs, was originally using an LED 5000k bulb that put out about 300 lumens and I swapped to a different LED bulb, this one 2700k and 500 lumens. I've also raised the water volume higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Man Posted January 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 Forgot to mention, as long as my parameters balance out and the cycle finishes by this weekend I'll pick up a couple Amano shrimp to go in the tank, few weeks later some kind of neo, not sure which yet depends what I can find available but in leaning towards a blue variant, if everything stays stable 1-3 male endlers will finish off the stocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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