I had a 10 gallon tank 15 years ago and learned about the nitrogen cycle then. I have a 38 gallon now and I’m all set cycle wise. 2 years established tank. 1 angel, 2 albino Corys, and 3 glofish tetras. This post is not about my stock or my nitrogen cycle water parameters. Information offered before I’m asked lol.
Problem is that my Asperger, OCD, seasonal affective disorder brain decided getting into plants was necessary. What.A.Nightmare. I have no idea what I’m doing, I’m in too deep to stop, and now I find out there is no rule book. My brain is short circuiting.
all of my plants Came from aquarium co-op. They are beautiful now because I’ve only had some for a little over a month, some for a few days which probably wasn’t enough time to ruin them yet. I have several anubias, 2 crypts, the octopus plant, a vallisneria, floating water sprite, 2 dwarf lily bulbs, Christmas moss bridge and 2 java moss mats I haven’t done anything with just yet. They are pretty and I don’t want to do something I’ll regret. I pitched the java ferns I had because they looked horrible and I got sick of looking at them.
i dose with Easy green occasional but not regularly because I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing. I had gravel I hated and wanted to change to eco complete. No one answered my questions about whether I should take out old gravel or leave it. So I shoved it all to one end of the tank and laid eco complete down. Then I covered it all with big pebbles cuz why not. I like the hill it made. Now I don’t know if that was wrong too. Oh and I buried root Tabs in the substrate and in the individual easy planters I’m using. Here’s to the guessing game as to whether the roots will smell the food I buried and grow towards that. I like the idea of the easy planters so I bought 4. I don’t like them. I feel like I’m using them wrong. Oh I bought flourish today too because someone said we need micronutrients too so here’s another thing I bought that I probably won’t know if I should use but I was responsible and it’s on my shelf. How in the world do you people get beautiful tanks in the chia’s off information that may or may not apply to you.
sorry I needed to get that all of my chest. Carry on