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I think I have finally achieved "heavily" planted but you be the judge. Where I started- What it looks like today. Even in a sunny window I can't see through the tank! The Brazilian Pennywort has decide to grow emersed all by itself. It is trailing everywhere. Here is the top/side view...

Is anyone interested in some Corkscrew val? I just thinned the jungle in my 10 gal shrimp tank. I've got a bunch of it. It's beautiful stuff and long. I hate to compost it if someone is interested. You pay shipping and I'll sending whatever fits in a small flat rate box. I do have pond and...

So I saw something strange in my 29 gal planted this morning and I'm looking for some help identifying it. I saw it first from across the room. Looked like a way to large and long strand of poop falling down from the surface and my Paradise Fish trying to attack it. (BTW, I never see any of my...

I have a 10 gallon shrimp tank that I started back in the middle of April. It's heavily planted and sits in front of a window with morning sun. I don't have any other light on the tank. I have sponge filter running on the tank. I added the shrimp on 5/19. I purchased a bag of shrimp and plants...

Looking for 2-3 assassin snails to control pond snails in a 10 gal. Have any you can part with? Please PM me if you have some you can spare and pricing. Thanks!

I got won a bag of fire painted shrimp with lots of plants included at my local fish auction this weekend. I'm trying to figure out what the three plants are in the two pictures attached. I thought this one might be some kind of moss but I've looked through the whole list on aquamoss.net and...

My favorite calculator page, Yet Another Nutrient Calculator, hasn't been working for about a week that I know of. I've tried the Fertilator but it's not quite the same. Does anyone know if the YANC will be fixed or how to let someone know it's not working? Or is there a similar replacement out...

I'm currently cycling a 10 g tank that I hope to stock with just shrimp but maybe also some snails or couple of small fish. But the primary goal is shrimp so I can see them and they don't have to hide from the other tank inhabitants. I have some driftwood, floating water lettuce, small amazon...

Is dosing Flourish Iron plus Flourish Trace the same as Flourish? I'm almost out of Flourish but still have Iron and Trace. I'd like to use them until I get some of the Plantex Csm+b to replace the Flourish. The Plantex CSM+B is the dry fertilizer equivalent to Flourish right? Sent from my...

So in the beginning of March I added 4 Julli Corys, 5 Lemon Tetra and 5 Cherry Barbs to a cycled 29 gallon tank. After a month of healthy fish and no issues, I decided I wanted a center piece fish and did some reading. I decided I wanted to add a dwarf gourami and some amano shrimp. So I headed...

Anyone have Java fern experience that could help me with why my ferns are dying off? I superglued two baby ferns to the either side the parent plant recently. The one of the left is fine and still green. The other on the right is all brown and dying off. Thinking it's not a deficiency because...

I took out about 2/3 of what I had in my tank today. It was starting to shade the plants underneath. Is anyone interested in any? Local would be great but I'll ship it if you want to pay for the cost of shipping. I started with 6 plants and now have hundreds of little ones. Let me know if you...

I have tried to find the best way to do this by watching some videos and reading. But it seems pretty split between remove the babies and leave the runners or cut the runners and plant what is left of the runner with the baby. I did have one baby fall off while cleaning and I just planted it and...

I'm having some difficulty each week getting my gravel vacuumed well. I have an Aqueon siphon I use now but I don't remember what size it is. The opening is about 1.5". Whenever I try to vacuum deep I seem to disturb and uproot plants and I have a hard time getting around rocks, driftwood and...

I think my plants are experiencing nitrogen deficiency and whiting in the leaves I'm seeing is chlorosis. All of my plants seem to be effected. I am about 4 days overdue for a PWC but my nitrates are only 5 ppm and have been for about 5 days. I do have some Flourish Nitrogen ordered that should...

If you’ve seen some of my other posts, you know I have been dealing with water issues from the beginning. My problems continue but I’m making process and this is the latest. I hope there is someone experienced in using RO water in freshwater aquariums that can offer their support and advice...

I'm looking for suggestions from others with hard water on what type of substrate to use for a 29 gallon beginner planted tank. I have just finished cycling and adding fish and I thought initially my pH increases were related to ammonia additions. I am still in the process of testing it but it...

I have LIVING creatures in my tank and my plants are growing!!!! The creatures may not be fish yet but I have one teeny tiny snail and I think what is seed shrimp, ostracoda. They are super super tiny so it's hard to judge any kind of shape but when they swim in open water they definitely look...

So I have learned an amazing amount of information in just one week. I did not realize I need a college level course to have a few tropical fish or goldfish. I wish I knew what I know now a week ago. Hindsight is always 20/20 they say! So anyway I have a request and I don't know what the...

I am currently trying to cycle a 29g with seed material from a failed 10g goldfish tank. All of my liquid test kits are finally here and I've been able to accurately test everything. We have softened well water and the test strips were telling me GH was 0 and KH was off the charts. Well they...

I am just starting a 29g fishless cycle but with seed material from a failed 10g goldfish tank. This morning I got Nitrite and Nitrate readings so I'm excited!! My master test kit will be here today so I'll get a better handle on what's actually happening. So I've been thinking about stocking...

I am getting ready to start my first fishless cycle on a 29g in the next couple of days. I have a couple of plants right now (java fern and moss ball) and have a few other low tech plants arriving on Thursday. Based on what I've read the last few days, it's benefical to run the temperature in...

After several days of reading and research I think I'm ready to move forward my first planted build. Here is my plan. I'm going to mix two bags of Carib Sea Flora Maz and 1 bag of Eco Complete and that should give me about 1.5 lbs/gallon. I was going to order 1 micro sword, 2 Anubias...

I started a new 10g tank the beginning for January with some plants I purchased at a chain store. I purchased 2 bunches of 3 plants. Of course I have no idea what they are or what they need for care. So I'm trying to figure that out after the fact. I think one is either Amazon Sword, Oriental...

I'm a beginner and with my kids I'm trying to get a small tank set up. I had a very small tank with a goldfish for a couple of years while in college and never spent much time on it and never seemed to have any problems. So we set up a tank and put a couple of goldfish and live plants in it and...