Recent content by amaramw

What is "water column fertilizing"? Would you recommend the Thrive or EasyGreen, is there one you're particularly impressed with other the other or are they about the same? I will probably just do the Thrive or EasyGreen (whatever you prefer) other than doing DIY fertilizers or trying to...

Interesting. Your plants grow nicely in the blasted sand? Do you use root tabs or "flourish tabs"? Should I still use the Seachem Flourish & Flourish Excel? Did you rinse the sand? Sorry for all the questions, there's just so much to ask lol. I had no clue that the gravel in the Eco-Complete...

Wouldn't the grit blasting sand be harmful to fish or anything that stays on the bottom? I'm striving to make the tank as vibrant as possible. Have you heard good things about the Flourite Black Sand by Seachem?

I have recently just got a 5 gal. Marineland Portrait aquarium and I was wanted to create my first planted tank (freshwater). A friend of mine gave me half of a 20 lb. bag of Eco-Complete Planted Aquarium substrate that he had sitting inside his room, never taken out of the bag. The...

This is the photo of my aquarium.

I recently got the Marineland 5 gal. aquarium from Petco. It comes with a filter and an LED light. Many say that the lights work excellent for plants but for some reason, my plants arent thriving. I have been using Flourish and Flourish Excel. I have caribsea substrate with API root tabs. Not...