fresh water question

You can use things like FW shrimp to help as part of your "clean up crew" if it's going to be a community tank. The recent rise in bacterial systems in Saltwater may also be something to consider. Brightwell aquatics makes a bio pellet media and supplements that are sold to work in freshwater as well. I'd look into those depending on your experience level. It's called Katalyst bio pellets and Microbacter7. I run them on my reef and have seen a drastic drop in dissolved nutrient levels since starting. You can also set up some sort of RDP refugium with different plants in your sump, as well as putting them, in the display. I think the only real difference is that with a planted FW tank you'll eventually need to supplement CO2 to help them grow really well.

Edited by CapnMorgan - March 06 2011 at 6:21am

the only problem i have with mine is that the main tank has Koi in it therefore i will be unable to plant anything in the upper portion...however i was thinking of having either cherry or ghost shrimp as my cleaners...and was debating on how i want to do the sump portion of it...