Once you make one, you gotta make more. 7 day progress on the new guppy tank (was supposed to be a Shelly tank but I was given some nice turquoise and gold guppies that I couldn’t say no to especially being the OG strong bloodline.)
This tank is a 6.8 gallon lowboy tank, not filter, no co2. I never recommend stocking a system upon setup, the swings are extremely hard to manage if you’re not doing constant waterchanges and having media from established systems. Currently running at 0 on ammonia, 0 on nitrite and 5 on nitrates. Gonna be adding shrimp soon to this system which is a blessing and a curse when you’re like me and use hydroponic nutrients in your tanks. For this build I had to make the substrate richer instead of adding nutrients that can contain copper into the water column like I typically would. So for this build I added osmacote indoor plant fertilizer to the base layer (spinkled it lightly, then added microryza for building an active root/fungus network and then fluval stratum as you can see plants are absolutely taking off.
For equipment I’m running the light that came with the tank and a heat pad that I can control digitally with a prob (this needs to be done carefully as if you use ones you cannot control then you risk cracking your tank.)
Waterchanges are done once a day at 75% till tank is fully stable.
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