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Hi all, I have a 10 gal planted tank that I painstakingly brought home from college for the summer (a 7 hour drive!). As much as I enjoy the tank I have no interest in tearing it down a second time and moving everything back up with me, so it will be staying at my house this time around. This...

Hi all, As my first year in the college dorms is coming to a close two things have me stressed out: (1) final exams and (2) how the heck am I gonna get this tank home for the summer?? In my excitement about setting up a new tank I failed to ask myself this critical question, haha I'm...

Just a few updates if anyone wants to chime in/recommend anything I should do differently I've since reduced the light intensity to 50% and have noticed considerably less algae on the glass, so I will likely stick with that for the time being. I ordered some duckweed, corkscrew vals, and water...

A lot of great points here. And that's not the first time I've been recommended Walstad's book, I'll have to give that a readthrough (or a few). Upon poking around a little further I've realized that many, if not all, of the brown spots on the leaves ARE actually some sort of algae that does...

Got it, I'll probably look at getting frogbit instead if you say it will serve the same purpose, and I'll go ahead and start incrementally reducing the light. Just now I was looking at what the cost of running CO2 on the tank would be hypothetically, and while I don't think I can afford a...

Thanks for the quick reply, Duckweed index is brilliant, I would've never thought to do that. It's difficult for me to get live plants here (I have to order online) but I will try to get my hands on some asap. In the meantime, seems like you're suggesting reducing the lighting. Would you...

Some photos as promised

Hi all, I have a lightly-moderately planted tank I set up back in November--my first tank since I got tired of the hobby way back in middle school, lol. The plants started out doing fairly well but now look, quite frankly, terrible. Hoping someone more experienced can help me to diagnose why...