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Need plant stocking help.

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#1 ·
I have a 55 gallon long that I am currently setting up. The substrate is organic soil with pea gravel over that. I have a 350 GPH canister filter and a Coralife 6700k T5 bulb. The area I have the tank at gets almost direct sun after 2pm. I am not using CO2, but do have 2 air stones. There is Malaysian driftwood and lava rock in there that I'm hoping to attaching moss or something to.

I'm looking for suggestions on which plants would work well in that setup. I am fairly new to planted tanks, I had a 20 gallon beginner LED setup for the past 2 years and they only thing that ever thrived in that was Anubis.

I have soft water (around 2.5ppm) and ph is a little over 5ppm.
 
#3 ·
ditch the airstone move it out of sunlight or some how block it. thats asking for algae problems once you start dosing ferts. id go with some java ferns for your drift wood, crypts and some sword plants of some sort, jungle val or corkscrew val, crypts and anubis. they all will do well with the light you have.
 
#4 ·
I use a mix of fast growers (anacharis, vals) and slower growers (small potted type like crypts and 1 or 2 amazon swords). That way you have plants to rapidily do the initial conditioning and that will help out later on.

My 55g gets morning sun and I had to kill the lights, cover the tank (to block sunlight) and suspend feeding for several weeks for it to cleared up.

So don't be surprised of you have to kill the lights and syspend feeding when the tank becomes cloudy. But usually after the initial incident, things balance out and remain clear. Just takes time and adjusting.



my .02
 
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