Ideas on setting up and maintaining a black water tank

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b.reder wrote: 07 Feb 2018, 05:42 Lycosid- My wife's father's people are from Lincolnton and Hickory, N.C. The folks we met there might want to open a boutique fish tank/ coffee shop.... if you franchise it. :))
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Yes- organic, tactical, and gluten free!
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What happened to my thread? :D haha xD
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I spent a couple of hours yesterday bagging alder cones, catappas and rooibos to bring with me to the NEC event in March. I use all of them in my Altum angel tank. I also put two of my sub-adult F1 H. contradens into that tank about four years ago. Unfortunately, I lost one a few weeks ago. but it wasn't the water quality at fault.
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it looks like you are off to a great start with that tank as a planted tank
the light levels should be fine to grow a fairly wide range of plants, I have 2x 54w t5 lights over a 450L tank and I am able to grow a wide variety of plants under that light yours should be capable of improving on that range.
I notice you have a bubble ramp for co2 in the corner of the tank, could you give a few details of the setup you are using?
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