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Your post seems like it will be very helpful! I have a couple follow up questions. 1. Most of the hair algae is attached to the leaves/stems of plants pretty good and difficult to remove without damaging the plants. Is it worth it to trim a bunch of the plants to get rid of more algae? 4...

My plant/fish/equipment specs are included at the bottom of this post for your reference. I have a fish tank that was fishless cycled correctly and have had plants and fish in it for the last 6 weeks. This is my first planted tank. I have tried to go "low tech" with the appropriate plants...

I have snails that hitchhiked on the plants in my aquarium. Currently they are all pretty small (max of 0.2inches/5mm). I inadvertently crushed one with my tweezers while extracting it from the tank. As it fell, a fish swam over and quickly gobbled it up. it looked like it got almost all...

My new plants in my new tank are the following (see tank specs at the bottom): Java Fern Java Moss Bacopa coraliniana Anubias barteri nana Water Wisteria Brazilian Pennywort I will be getting neon tetras, corys, a pleco, guppies, and a few other fish to "fully" stock my tank over the next two...

I am about 3/4 through my fishless cycle of my first aquarium and have decided to go low tech planted (no CO2). My local fish store doesn't have a very good selection of plants. Where would you suggest I shop online? While you are here, any suggestions on my planned plant list? Java Fern...

Yea, although the Ram would have been a beautiful centerpiece of my tank, you are probably right in that it isn't worth the difficult living conditions for the fish.

What is the reason for getting plants first? Wouldn't the plants want to see the nutrients from the fish (hence adding the fish first), or is there something I am missing? Is the reason for picking one or the other shoal of tetras due to overstocking, or will they not get along well?

Is there a particular reason for picking only one or the other species? Do they not get along or will one out complete the other species for food? Or do you just mean the tank is generally going overstocked and these are the first that should be cut?

I am just joining the aquarium hobby for the first time and I'm nearly 3 weeks into the fishless cycle of my tank (ammonia is dropping at a rate of 2ppm per 24 hours) following this guide: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f15/the-almost-complete-guide-and-faq-to-fishless-cycling-148283.html...