Quote Originally Posted by txmike View Post
Surface skimming will help on the FW setup .I would drill and use a wet dry for the FW .To preventing the hitch hikers on the plants put them in a RO/DI and bleach mix for a bit then you move them into RO/DI and change the water a few times and the plants will be clean of hitch hikers .When you set up let me know I will get the bleach to RO/DI mix from my wife for you ,She did this in all the FW planted that we use to have.As far as C02 not sure on that as we never stocked the plants that hard in any of our tanks.

Mike
Thank you Mike, I remember how impressive your setups were. Definitely something to emulate.