ADA Aqua Soil Prices/Sizing

Hi Guys

I am planning on buying ADA Aquasoil for my 1.2x70x70 tank, but I need some help in estimating the amount I need for the tank and what kind of the ADA soil should I get?

Also I read that the soils does not go well with fish with whiskers, anybody had any issues with cories or synodontis and the soil?

Also cheapest place I can buy it from as it does cost a pretty penny to get the soil...

Thanks in advance!

 

Hey there!

For a tank of that size, if you want a complete carpet of plants, you'd need about 6-8 bags of Amazonia.

It is not a good idea to have catfish in the tank at the start. They will dig your plants out of the substrate. You can wait until the carpets have rooted properly, and then add them. But aquasoil is light, so it's easy for them to uproot your plants. I definitely wouldn't keep a synodontis with aquasoil.

I'd also definitely recommend the powersand. It helps keep the substrate healthy, long term.

 

so I gues i need another 3 arms to give to get the amount of soil i need for the tank =(, around R3560 and then I need the Power sand as well....

But put in to perspective, thats about the average i would spend on liquid ferts on a monthly basis as well for the volume of the tank, at around R300 a month so in a year the sand would have paid itself off.... hmmmm...

 

Just remember, you still need to fertilize the tank. Aquasoil is rich in N and P, but not K or traces. So you need to dose that. Also, your fish, when you feed them will also product N and P in the tank. That's why ADA only add Potassium and Trace elements as fertilizer.

ADA Designed everything around the Substrate system. And it works extremely well.

 

At this point I dont know what to do anymore as its seems I have some kind of difiecency but dont know what it is, looking for a plant master to tell me whats wrong, ill post picks when I get a working phone again, but all my old leaves are yellow and they get holes in them, and this is my anubias and javas...

 

That would be a potassium deficiency, or possibly a Nitrate and Phosphate deficiency.

If the plant gets holes that have a yellow border, it's potassium.

 

@Sean J I created a new thread...

PLease help identify Plant defiecincies and advice in fixing it