People who have just started practicing aquatics often do not have experience, and are often confused and confused about information related to aquatic substrates and substrates. Article written byAqua Plants Hub Providing hope that it will help aquarists have more necessary and extremely useful information to help you make choices for your aquatics game.
How to spread the substrate in an aquarium
- Spread the base layer with a thickness of 1-2cm, you need to slope about 3-4cm in front, sloping towards the back. The thickness of the base depends on the player’s needs. If the thickness is greater, the durability will last longer.
- The substrate needs to be 3-4cm away from the glass walls to avoid nutrients being released quickly through the glass walls into the water, leading to an excess of nutrients in the aquarium, creating conditions for harmful mosses to grow.
- After the foundation step, you need to cover the surrounding foundation, then spread layers of gravel over the substrate with a thickness of 4-5cm, sloping from the front surface to the back.
- After completing the layout setup, water slowly and gently to avoid water being poured directly into the substrate, causing the substrate to break. In addition, ferns and ferns can be planted immediately after watering.
How to care for an aquarium using Vu Aqua substrate
- Regarding lighting: Players must increase the capacity to about ⅔ of the average in the first 3 weeks.
- About CO2: Provide CO2 as usual. If you don’t have enough CO2 for the first few days, it won’t affect the process much.
- About light: provide the amount of light depending on the growth of the plants in the aquarium.
- About water: You need to change the water every 3 days about 30-40% of the water in the first 2 weeks. The water change time you need to gradually shorten according to the growth of the plant.
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