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My first planted tank and I'm excited, so excited that I'm putting up the build thread a day early. With any luck my plants will be here tomorrow (more on those in a bit) since I ordered them Sunday night. This is a 29 gallon with a 20W T8 bulb and no CO2. My hardscape has been changed from...

Not sure if anyone has done this, but I bought a piece of dw at the lfs thinking it would look good. When I put it in the tank though, it really wasn't as I imagined it. Lucky for me I had some spare pieces left over from what I thought was a failed DIY driftwood project. I decided to play...

Having finally decided on the plants I want in my low tech/ low light 29 gallon, I'm wondering if an increase in lighting would serve me better. If I ordered my plants right now they would be under a single 20w T8 6700k bulb. The plants I'm planning are Apogenton crispus, java fern, dwarf water...

I recently bought a 29 gallon tank and it's ben sitting in my room empty for a week. Time to shake off my mood and get down to planning this thing so I have something good happening. My goal is to do some sort of Southeast Asian lagoon. Well that's the look I'm hoping to get. I know almost...

We all know the work with an aquarium is never truly done. With that being said my recently set up South American blackwater themed tank is doing rather nicely. I have only to maintain it and eventually add a few more fish. This has freed me up to start planning my second aquarium. The one...

I thought once my ammonia problem was taken care of (or more likely outwaited) that things would go quick for me. Turns out I was wrong. Things should not be this hard, so once again I'm going to ask for some advice. My first test for NO3 was on 10-09 and it was off the charts. Since then I've...

Has anyone used dried tree leaves in their tank? I mean on the forum not ever. I bought some Indian almond leaves this summer and have added them for the first time today (trying just 6 for the moment in a 40 gallon). The cost on ebay wasn't too bad...but if I can save money then why not? I know...

After a lot of misfortune and a whole host of errors coupled with some straight up mystery I've been advised to basically start fresh on my build. I wanted wanted to before but just didn't. I figured now would be a good time to start especially if something goes wrong again and someone can learn...

I'm totally new to plants but since I'm starting up a new tank I decided to try and keep some. I'm setting up a biotope so just planned to try one species. A month ago or so I got a bunch of Amazon frogbit off of ebay for pretty cheap. They looked pretty beat to me (the plant newbie) when they...

So after a multitude of problems with bad driftwood and dying plants I've started fresh with some Malaysian driftwood. This is the hardscape for my South American biotope. Any advice or critiques?

I'm a total newb when it comes to fishless cycling. For about a week I've had my aquarium set up with 50 pounds of cleaned Quikrete playsand as well as all of the equipment. I added nothing else. Tonight my first shipment of live plants came and I added them. I was going to start my fishless...

I'm in the process of setting up a new aquarium and would love some advice on stocking. I've kept fish in the past but not for a long time so I'm doing my research and learning all the new changes since then. As a kid I used the one inch of fish per gallon. I know now how wrong that can be. I'm...

I'm setting up a 40 gallon breeder. Right now I've gotten to the point where I have the sand cleaned. The only decorations I plan to have in the tank is a lot of DIY driftwood. I'm in the process of trying to sink the driftwood right now and I know that will take time. My question was is there...

I have a standard 55 gallon tank (48"X12"x21") that I would like to set up with frogbit. This will be my first attempt at keeping live plants. I know floating plants need low current so now I'm curious about lighting. I was looking into both T8 and T5 HO systems. I was told floating plants don't...

After much research I think I've finally come up with a plan for my next aquarium. I've been out of the hobby for years though so I figured I'd run it by everyone to see if it could use any tweaking before I go on my spending spree this weekend (I'm basically starting from scratch). Tank: Either...

First off hello everyone. As I was growing up my family always had a multitude of aquariums in the house. That was growing up though. It's probably been about ten years since I had one (I went more into herps). A couple months ago I got that old itch back though and decided to treat myself as a...