AquaMike

Hey guys so i got an aqua zonic max bright light for my soon to be 50 litre(15 us gallons) planted tank. The specs are T8 2x18watt, one tube says sunlight and the other says super tropical tube( its pink), Ive kept cold water fish for most of my life but this is my first real attempt at a planted tropical tank and was wondering if anyone can tell me if my current light would be enough to grow plantes and if so whats the lighting range ie. High, medium, low, and also i have a few plants in my cold water tank without lighting and they been fine. And also i will be using Daltons aquatic mix and a thin layer of aquatic peat capped off with some aquaone black silica sand, not sure of the fish yet but most likely a few Rasboras and a couple of cleaners.

Aw choice as, i will be giving itna try soon

so is there an actual recorded life span of them in a tank? like as in the longest time they've lived

Wow very interesting, thwnx for that bit of info, im getting in a must do gotta do mood now hahaha. How long do they live in fish tanks aposed to in the wild?

If i may ask why does it need to drain into the sea? Ive go a spot in hamilton that has heaps of plants and easy enough to get to but doesnt go anywhere near the sea.

In the sea?

Any one know a place near hamilton where i should get them? I was thinking the waikato river maybe?

Yeah i was also thinking either double routing the flow through a T piece or just dirrecting the outlet holes towards the back glass as ive seen done on someones aquascape

Aw didnt think of that hmmm, anyway to keep the turn over but some how make the flow abit less

Sweet will do

Might be over kill for my soon to be planted tank but i just bought an aqauone cf500 for my 50 litre tank. 100 litres per hour for every 10 litres?

Where did you buy your shrimp? Id be keen as for a native 28 litr e shrimp tank

The palmers here in Hamilton has it aswell as the Daltons propergating sand and a huge block of compressed peat and not to kention they had a few submerged aqautic plants, got me a 15 kg bag of the aqautic mix today and only $13 aposed to the $35 for aqaubasis plus. Me thinking i should grab a few bags and chuck em on trademe.