Guide to High-Tech Planted Aquariums



A “high tech” planted fish tank is one of the strong lighting properties for fish. The strong light makes the plants grow faster, but they can only do that in a healthy way if they have plenty of carbon dioxide. In the high tech planted fish tank is provided by bubbling the gas into the water through a diffuser. There are literally thousands of ways to set up a high tech planted fish tank the following information’s are very useful to create a high tech planted fish tank in success.

  • The lighting bulb should be at least be 2 watts/gallon with the good reflectors
  • High levels of the filtration and flow should be there
  • During daylight hours the tank should have the 30ppm of CO2
  • The nutritious substrate should be regularly dosed in the water

The high tech planted fish tanks are two types and the first one is traditional kind of the tank that have the cover glasses, stress bars and a rimless or hood tank. This tank is much wider and taller than other tanks and it is found to be very costly than a standard 36” long 15” wide tanks but the added width and the height allows more capacity and it contains more volume of the water in the tank and it makes your home gorgeous.  For somewhat different dimensions are need to adjust the equipment accordingly.

Requirements need for High-Tech Planted Fish Tank

 

The basic requirements for the high tech planted fish tank are listed and explained below.
Lighting – Having a good lighting in the fish tank is found to be an essential thing and this can be done with the help of the lighting bulbs having the maximum, efficiency on it.
CO2 - Adding pressurized CO2 will help I increasing the growth of the plants at the same time it makes the growth of the algae to be at bay.
Substrate - A high-quality planted tank needs a excellent fertile substrate in which it  supplies the needed nutrients to the plants, helps in the growth of the plants and also  act as a ‘safety buffer’.
Fertilizers – The fertilizers must be added to the water of the fish tank daily in order to ideally supplement the nutrition present in the substrate.
Filtration and water circulation- The major part of algae is organic wastes. The filtration and the water circulation is produced from the wastes of the fish, dead plant bits and the most important things is that you should keep this to be at minimum level to avoid algae.
Heating- Set the heater to about 26 degrees centigrade, but this is dependent on the fish and this heater need to use on winter season and very useful for fish healthy activity.

The above requirements are very useful for designing a good High-Tech Planted fish tank which you can follow to have a good and beautiful planted fish tank at your home.

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