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Hi all,
A few people on my allotment use water tanks as a stand-alone supply of water which is useful if the mains supply is not available, for whatever reason.
I filled my tank with water last year and now I would like to create a micro habitat in the tank so that I can use the water on my plants, which will no doubt be healthier for plants than the brown murky water you can see in the photo.
The water in the tank I would like to emulate is clear right down to the bottom, with aquatic plants and lots of water-snails and newts that occasionally swim up for air and then disappear back down again.
I notice that the tank has some 4-6inches of soil at the bottom of it, and I'm curious to know if I added some soil to my tank I could create a micro-habitat like my neighbour's.
I'm willing to trial this and post progress photos as things progress.
I plan on adding quite a large amount of sieved compost (not manure) to the tank which I will let settle for a day or two. Then I will transplant some of the vegetation in my neighbour's tank (with permission of course), as well as a few water snails.
If anyone has any advice they can share to help things along, I would very much welcome it.
A few people on my allotment use water tanks as a stand-alone supply of water which is useful if the mains supply is not available, for whatever reason.
I filled my tank with water last year and now I would like to create a micro habitat in the tank so that I can use the water on my plants, which will no doubt be healthier for plants than the brown murky water you can see in the photo.
The water in the tank I would like to emulate is clear right down to the bottom, with aquatic plants and lots of water-snails and newts that occasionally swim up for air and then disappear back down again.
I notice that the tank has some 4-6inches of soil at the bottom of it, and I'm curious to know if I added some soil to my tank I could create a micro-habitat like my neighbour's.
I'm willing to trial this and post progress photos as things progress.
I plan on adding quite a large amount of sieved compost (not manure) to the tank which I will let settle for a day or two. Then I will transplant some of the vegetation in my neighbour's tank (with permission of course), as well as a few water snails.
If anyone has any advice they can share to help things along, I would very much welcome it.
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