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Originally Posted by bastion12345
Thanks for the information. I am setting up a new 2 feet tank with beach sand(silicon sand). Is this okay? The bottom layer uses garden soil along with sheep fertz.
The reason i want to buy glosso from a member here is becoz the glosso in the shop don't look alrite, and Prangin was selling foreground plants between RM13 - RM25+ for a small container .
Thanks for the info again.
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First, silica sand (Not silicon sand) is alkaline. Glosso need slightly acidic water like PH 6.2-6.6. Silica sand will raise the PH up to PH8 at least. So, it is not suitable for glosso.
You can use the garden soil at the bottom. But your tank will take time to stable or mature. Once you pulling out any plants. The garden soil will just come out n explore inside the water. End up you will facing lot of algaes problem.
You can use that sheep organic fert inside the aquarium. But wait till your plants are growing well. Then only insert it one by one inside the substrate. If you just put a layer of sheep organic fert under the substrate. And the plants yet to start growing n the fert will turning into ammonia/nitrite. Then kill all of yr fauna n flora inside the tank.
Wait till your tank stable with bacteria grown. Bacteria play an important role inside the aquarium. It will help to convert the nitrite into nitrate for plants to absorb.