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What do you recommend? I have a 29 gallon, heavily planted but with low-growing plants. My current denizens (6 rummynose tetras, 5 otocinclus) love the plants so much that they mostly just zip around their mini-jungle. Lovely to watch up close, but now I need some fish I can see from my desk...

I am planning my first FOWLR tank with aspirations of converting to reef in a year or so, when tank is well established. I have a 75 gallon tank and am getting ready to build a DIY 30 gallon sump/refugium. Drilling is not an option for this tank so I will need an overflow box. I'd love to...

OK, on March 27, I started fishless cycling on a 29 gallon that contained about 4 live plants and standard aquarium gravel. I used the guidelines posted here. On May 10, I started a 28 gallon bowfront with sand over soil, fairly heavily planted. On May 12, I got some mature filter media...

I have an opportunity to buy a tank from someone with whom I am friendly. It's a 55 gallon tank (no hood, no hardware) and a wood stand with cabinets. Assuming both are in decent condition, what would you consider a fair price for these items? I don't think either of us feels educated enough...

After a false start a couple of weeks ago, I finally have assembled enough bits and pieces to start my very first planted tank! I really want this to be as low tech as possible, so I am adhering to Diana Walstad's recommendations as printed in Ecology of the Planted Aquarium, with minor...

So it started with some clear space on a cabinet in my office. Filled it with a 29 gallon tank. Planned on malabar puffers. Well, malabar puffers need snails, so naturally I started up a 5 gallon snail breeding tank. Then I read about planted tanks. Oooh, I wanna do one of those! But the...

I am cruising CL for a used tank. I was originally looking for a 75-90 gallon, but I have seen a few offers for 125 gallon tanks that have caught my eye. I am a bit concerned about the total weight of the tank when filled (1500 pounds plus including stand and equipment, by my estimation)...

Since so many of the online vendors show plants at purchase size and not at fullly grown size, I am having a bit of trouble finding what I want. I am looking for a medium-light accent plant with broad-ish leaves that will grow to about 6 inches. It should have a full, bushy appearance when it...

I have been reading about lighting and getting a bit kerfuffled about wpg, lumens, tank height, etc. I want to shop for the right plants for my setup - I have a 28 gallon bowfront, 18 inches high. I just ordered the Zoo Med Aquasun T5-HO, which has 2 24W bulbs (also has independent power...

OK. So I cleaned my office a few weeks ago. Made some empty space on the top of a sturdy file cabinet. And had the brilliant idea to get a 29 gallon fish tank, without knowing a darn thing about aquariums or fish. Luckily, I didn't buy any fish before realizing how much of an education I...

Hi all - newbie here. I am 2 weeks into a fishless cycle and I have decided to start my 29 gallon tank over because I want to have a low-tech planted tank and I want to change substrate from standard aquarium gravel to gravel over soil as described by Diana Walstad in Ecology of the Planted...