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I'm a nikon shooter myself so I'm not fully familiar with Canon but I don't think there's any bad macro lenses on the market today.

Way I always take my pictures. D300 + 100mm tokina macro on a tripod with a 3 way head but with all three axis of the tripod lose so it can move. SB-600 connected to the camera with a cable. Flash in my left hand, position as needed, camera controlled with my other hand. For each of these...

It all depends. If you're impatient or you want super dense then yes, CO2 makes sense. It's perfectly possible to do planted without though

It depends on how old and what you want to do exactly. For the local aquarium the 50 may be better, for your own tank a 100 would do better. I find public aquariums a rubber lens hood helps, you canget really close to the glass and cut out reflections

I suspect the CPDs will be pretty pale in this setup. Personally this plastic-only is not my thing at all!

2-3 lower PH that's impressive. For that to happen you must have a very low buffer. Valid point though that I overlooked. I've got quite pure water of a consistent ph of 8. With blackwater species I grab every option I have to lower PH. If you already have low PH then adding leaking wood to...

Tannins are bad for the tank that's a common fable. Granted, they give a colour to the water. However, it depends what you're after. Quite a few of the popular species from South America and Asia come from slow to medium moving water where half the jungle drops in the water and rots. With some...

Not pine, not cedar, nasty resins in those. The wood you can buy in any decent fish store is not going to rot, the wood you collect yourself will.

Well... ymmv of course, I took a calculated risk with the bamboo. I'll post an update in a few week on how the moss is doing.

It's sold here in garden centers to use as plant supports. The cheapest ones aren't even treated. These had been lying around in my garden for months so they were washed by the rain. Even so I rinsed them well with boiling water before I started the project. The shrimp were all over them...

I liked the look of these things and my dad was kind enough to give me a few handfulls of willow moss. So I dediced to do some experimenting. Bamboo stick I had lying around just like some fishing nylon. I'm counting on these to grow out a bit more, we'll see what happens. For now the shrimps...

The first one is a Trigonostigma hengeli, possibly a female. It's certainly the biggest fish in my tank. Second one is boraras brigittae Third one is boraras merah The latter two are difficult to tell apart and very often mislabled in the trade. Fortunately for me these two species get along...

There's that of course, I know it's part of ich treatment. What it's supposed to do as a standard addition to your water?

Some of the small inhabitants of my tank:

I see that aquarium salt come up in a lot of American aquarium discussions. Why is that? Over here in the Netherlands it's only the brackish that mess with it.

Brighter coloured shrimps attract more attention. You hear all sorts of reports on bettas, I suspect personality is involved. Snails are safe with a betta. On the invert-only tank, if you can keep water clean and stable then pretty much anything from the neocaridina family is possible. Start...

Hi everyone, I was looking for a nice aquarium forum and found this site. I've been enjoying the hobby since my early teens. Currently running a 60 liter heavily planted tank with shrimp, 2 species of micro rasbora and half a dozen Trigonostigma hengeli. I'm also contemplating my first pico tank.