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I got the idea from reading around on forums. It's an aquaclear filter. On the outflow side I have biomedia on the bottom and a sponge in the middle. On the top I have a piece of hollow PVC pipe to hold the plants together. (even though you could put holes in the sponge and put them directly in there.) It also works nice bc when I wanna fertilize I can drop a root tab into the pipe and it'll settle on the bottom right where the roots are at. The plants are just the common house plants from Home Depot. Anything that roots in water should do okay. If not I'll just take it out. The outflow "mat" is poultry wire (bend it to desired shape) with java moss, dwarf babies tears and riccia tied to it. Eventually it should cover it so you can't see the wire. And it's nice bc it cuts down on the outflow so it doesn't whirl my shrimp around.