Ok so I have been trying my hand at the freshwater refugium as my sump has the room for it. My geos and other fish destroy any plant that goes in the show tank so I figured why not. I've got that grow substrate made for planting and
I'm using the root tabs and such but I am still losing plants. I have a low light setup and have been placing plants that require low light in it but they soon die. The moss balls of course are fine and so is my bamboo but the rest soon die. I have ghost shrimp in there and am planning to get another type of shrimp or 2 for it, but that doesnt solve the plant issue.
My sump runs down than through k1 media, through a small chamber and over my wet dry. Then draining down into the refugium. The water than goes through the substrate into my final chamber and back up to my tank.
I need a plant that grows very well in low light conditions. I have 0 algae issues and my levels are never high but as my last tank had lots of plants I know that the plants add a good stability.
Is there a plant that will take over my whole refugium for me in these conditions? If I need to increase the amount of light thats fine since im using pods.
If anyone has suggestions on how to really get some growth without C02 dosing or anything I would like to know. I'm just looking for a few large plants to do some of the filtering for me to make the tank more stable. And decrease my workload even if by a fraction.
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I'm using the root tabs and such but I am still losing plants. I have a low light setup and have been placing plants that require low light in it but they soon die. The moss balls of course are fine and so is my bamboo but the rest soon die. I have ghost shrimp in there and am planning to get another type of shrimp or 2 for it, but that doesnt solve the plant issue.
My sump runs down than through k1 media, through a small chamber and over my wet dry. Then draining down into the refugium. The water than goes through the substrate into my final chamber and back up to my tank.
I need a plant that grows very well in low light conditions. I have 0 algae issues and my levels are never high but as my last tank had lots of plants I know that the plants add a good stability.
Is there a plant that will take over my whole refugium for me in these conditions? If I need to increase the amount of light thats fine since im using pods.
If anyone has suggestions on how to really get some growth without C02 dosing or anything I would like to know. I'm just looking for a few large plants to do some of the filtering for me to make the tank more stable. And decrease my workload even if by a fraction.
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