My first Day With Plants

[Zach]

How many are too many plants in a bed ? Is this too much for a 10 gallon with 12 gold fish?

[Alex Veidel]

"Too many" plants in a bed happens when they start crowding each other out for light or you are getting poor airflow in between your plants. Yours looks fine; you can always trim them back or pull a few out if it gets to be too much.

[Zach]

thanks

[Zach]

I am thinking of growing......have a 50 gallon plastic barrel, 396 gph pump and a bunch of totes....am told to get a sump pump ( have a old 1/3 that might work but electrical use is an issue )  so I want to put it in a 8 by10 GH ......am open to advice at this time. ANYONE!!

[Curry Benoit]

I agree with Alex, with 12 fish I would add even more plants if your concerned about space, maybe you could go with some micro greens, or a couple vine of plants that you could control their direction of growth. On your 50 gallon barrel system, you could put a float switch on the sump pump and save you some power costs.

[Zach]

I am going bigger soon enough, have 50 gallon plastic barrel, 396 ghp pump, and black tubing....just putting together plan.

[Zach]

have one here somewhere, just need to find it.

thinking of having a swirl dump into sump tank and put my pump in there and dump into my beds, then nthe beds dump into fish tank.

[Brent Shafer]

Looks like you could use some more plants. 

also have you done the vinegar test on your grow media?

= get a jar and add 2 cups white distilled vinegar and a cup of grow media-

If you get bubbles you have lime stone in your media and this is going to cause you to fight high pH, which will lock out nutrients to your plants

[Zach]

I did do the media test for lime. have more plants in seeds under the stone just waiting for it to come up.

Did you see my siphon time? 6 minutes 49 seconds fill time and 1 minute 55 seconds drain....what you think?