How did you learn?

[fish_4_all]

I asked about 100 questions, collected all the information tried a little of everything from everywhere and eventually got it to work for me. The range of advice given here made it easier to get enough different ideas to make it work for me in a way I wanted to do it.

Many techniques I could not get to work like DIY CO2 and layering substrate. Others were easy for me to make work like adding root tabs in mass to regular gravel to get a good amount of laterite in the gravel to support good plant growth. Eventually I got enough responses on different ways to make what I wanted to do work and I can now grow plants pretty well.

[herefishy]

Research. research, and more research. Then came the trial and error. Nothing drives home a learning experience better than making a mistake.

[Glenc]

I learned almost everything from the kind talented people of this site. I also read everything on planted tanks I could get my hands on. Next step was to set up and try it for myself. After that it was all trial and error as herefishy said. Screw a few things up and learn how to fix them. Best teacher there is. Once you do a planted tank for awhile you get a feel for it, as Purrbox said. It takes awhile to get there, but it's worth it. I still come home from a tough day and sit and look into my planted tank. The stress of the day just melts away.