Preston John Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 (edited) Please share what you consider a Heavily Planted Tank or Moderately Planted Tank or Lightly Planted Tank. Here are a few from my fishroom. Edited October 22, 2020 by Preston John Lots of views.... noooooooo participation:) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack.of.all.aquariums Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) I agree with you lightly planted. Your medium is on the boarder of heavy in my opinion. My heavily planted tank. Edited October 22, 2020 by Jack.of.all.aquariums 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston John Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 19 hours ago, Jack.of.all.aquariums said: I agree with you lightly planted. Your medium is on the boarder of heavy in my opinion. My heavily planted tank. I guess I chose “moderately” on that one because most of the plants are slow growing and don’t create very many line of sight breaks. But that’s the conversation I think would be great to have. BTW... your tank is amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Area Aquatics Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 I consider my 75 Heavily Planted. My breeding tanks below I would consider lightly planted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryo Watanabe Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 My moderately planted tank... Thought of taking out the sand and planting the rest of the tank but for now I’ll leave it as is. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superjoepez Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 This is an interesting topic. I would like to introduce a different thought though. Maybe the designation of heavy or light is not so much about the amount of plants but the nutrients required to keep them happy. For example you could have a tank filled to the brim with Anubias and Java Fern but that would still be moderate compared to a fully carpeted tank full of fast growing stem plants 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack.of.all.aquariums Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) I like this idea but I'm not sure it works perfectly since dosing strategies vary wildly. My tank is obviously loaded to the brim with plants both fast growing and slow growing. If I was to dose following the EI method I would be putting in nearly 15x the amount that I actually do. I guess it's sort of like the inch per gallon thing. Yeah it gets you pretty close to doing things right (10 neons in a 10 gallon is reasonable) but get wacky in some cases (one 10 inch fish in a 10 gallon is not reasonable) Edited October 23, 2020 by Jack.of.all.aquariums Formatting got messed up from the app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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