Temp for Planted Tank?
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Except for a few specific plant exceptions, most commonly available plants do fine in a wide temperature range. If you have anything that's not considered "easy care" or "easy to grow," you should look those up or ask about them here by name. Or post some photos and someone should be able to help you identify the plants you question.
Here's my tank
And guessing what I have from left to right. Sword, Ludwigia, Hygro.
And there is one little peice of Anacharis btween the Ludwigia and Hygro.
This is about 80% of what the store had for live plants to sell. I think all that was left was some Anacharis, and a couple of more Swords.
I've moved the powerhead up close to the surface. I didn't have any water movement at all on the surface for a couple of days. And yesterday I had a snail doing the backstroke, so I thought I might want to move the water around a little.
I have a digital thermometer that I found real cheap. It seems to work. I don't have anything to calibrate it against. But it's alot easier to deal with than a floater, that I almost always have to take out spin around a couple of times and then get just the right degree of angle to read.
Tanks been running at 80.1 to 81.5 F.
Do we have a thread around here giving info on plants?
And guessing what I have from left to right. Sword, Ludwigia, Hygro.
And there is one little peice of Anacharis btween the Ludwigia and Hygro.
This is about 80% of what the store had for live plants to sell. I think all that was left was some Anacharis, and a couple of more Swords.
I've moved the powerhead up close to the surface. I didn't have any water movement at all on the surface for a couple of days. And yesterday I had a snail doing the backstroke, so I thought I might want to move the water around a little.
I have a digital thermometer that I found real cheap. It seems to work. I don't have anything to calibrate it against. But it's alot easier to deal with than a floater, that I almost always have to take out spin around a couple of times and then get just the right degree of angle to read.
Tanks been running at 80.1 to 81.5 F.
Do we have a thread around here giving info on plants?
I meant to add in a link for the digital thermometer.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3744+12089&pcatid=12089
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3744+12089&pcatid=12089
Your plants won't care about the temperature, that's more generally determined by the type of fish you intend to stock this with and adjusted to provide for their needs.
Yeah, most plants are highly versatile. I've had plants growing from as low as 72C up to 88F....the range is likely greater, but that's the range I've personally grown in.
FYI, those digital thermometers are known to be widely inaccurate. I've had 2....one was 5 deg high, and the other was 12 degrees low. The second led to a mass wipeout of my tank as I kept turning up the heater because the digital thermometer read so low. I recommend el-cheap $2 glass/ethanol thermometer.
FYI, those digital thermometers are known to be widely inaccurate. I've had 2....one was 5 deg high, and the other was 12 degrees low. The second led to a mass wipeout of my tank as I kept turning up the heater because the digital thermometer read so low. I recommend el-cheap $2 glass/ethanol thermometer.
I'm sure most folks woulda skipped over it, but we were talking last night about how boiling is 100C and at certain depths of the ocean that isn't true so rare bacteria are found there that they are found nowhere else... so it made me notice it ;p
(sorry for the derail)