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I've been asked by a few people to start a thread here about my 2 US Gallon Fluval Spec. It's not your typical SW tank - this tank is stuffed to the gills (pun intended) with South Carolina coastal pest anemones. That's right - a tank with several different species of aiptasia, actinaria, and...

Show off ;) LEDs it is!

Awesome. I should be getting everything together next week (I'm going out of town this weekend). I've had someone offer to trade me a stock BioCube hood (2x 18W Power Compacts) plus cash for my LED rig, and I'm definitely considering it. I know it's a huge downgrade so to speak, but it's still...

Awesome. That settles it :) Purigen + CO2 in the tank. I really appreciate all of the help everyone!!

Hehe. The problem I have is mine are less than 5cm from the water surface... But yes. LEDs + Height and you're golden.

I'll be dosing some ferts, plus this will be a relatively hitec tank since my lighting is designed for a reef. Maybe I should run Purigen? Ah. So confused ha.

Ah. Gotcha. It will be the left side, but yeah. I know what you mean now. Underneath the return. Sounds like a plan to me.

Alrighty. I heard Purigen was used in some planted tanks, but I've had quite a few people say no chemical media. So the media is out. Now I just need to figure out if that CO2 will work or not. I'm afraid it may all bubble out due to the waterfall effect that the chamber system creates. Any...

Here we go. The light blue indicates water levels. Chamber 1 fills entirely then spills over into chamber 2 where the water passes through my media rack. It then exits through a baffle at the bottom of chamber 2 into chamber 3 where it is immediately taken up by the pump and returned (via...

If I put it on the right hand side it won't do anything. In fact, it won't even be under water... I probably should have added water level lines to give you more of an idea as to what water looks like in the tank... Let me do that quick.

Awesome. About what grain size? 1-3mm I think you said? Or did I just make that number up? Also... They have ghost shrimp at the LFS. They're pretty cool looking. Are they a good idea or not?

What looks best with a Dutch tank? Maybe black substrate? Or dark red? So many choices!

Hi guys. I'm looking to turn my 8 gallon BioCube All-In-One system into a FW Planted tank. As you can see in my journal thread, it's previously been a SW reef and had many modifications. I decided to make a mock-up of the rear chambers (since no one here seems to have an AIO tank) and get some...

Awesome. I figured as much, but thought I would check before tossing out this sand. So stem plants take the most from the water? Very nice. I plan on dosing a fert of some kind in the water, so that should work nicely. Thanks for the tip!!

Assassins shouldn't bother plants. Alternatively, puffers tend to gobble up snails (and they can usually stand up to a betta).

So my substrate needs to wear a hat? That might not blend well with my scape. You're right though -it was flourite I saw. The bag looked filthy, but I just assumed it had been sitting a while and got something spilled on it. Apparently that's just flourite though. So this is probably a really...

I can only speak from salt water reef experience, but LEDs are really, really powerful. I ran a custom LED rig on my 8g cube and at ~40% output I had the equivalent of a 150W Metal Halide (way too much for an 8g tank). I was bleaching out the highest light corals easily and had to tone it down...

Teach me the ways of no CO2 + High Light, master. SPAM - Randomus latinus namus

So I took a trip to the LFS today. They didn't have much for freshwater planted. I need advice on what substrate to buy. They had two different planted kinds. One was a red clay (I think made by Seachem) and the other was a brownish grey something. What's the best?

I'm colorblind, so all green doesn't bother me much at all hahaha.

This little tank is a beauty! Honestly, I really liked the round rock. Gave it a very zen garden feel. The smaller rocks are quite nice, though. It's a win either way.

So I've spent this evening looking at stock options, and here is what I've come up with. Let me know if I'm an idiot. Plants Amazon Sword (Echinodorus amazonicus) Anacharis (Egeria densa) Cabomba (Cabomba caroliniana) Chilensis (Sagittaria platyphylla) Dwarf Baby Tears (Hemianthus...

Thanks for the tips! They're 3W CREEs about 4CM from the surface... Luckily I can turn them way, way down thanks to my controller, so hopefully I won't completely nuke anything I put in the tank. Yeah, my pump is 163 Gallons per hour. It's strange coming from SW because that was considered low...

Hello everyone! A moderator here has convinced me to come to the dark side and start a freshwater tank... So blame lljdma06 for all of my trolling :) Lets start with some background, shall we? My name is Kyle, and I'm a marine biologist (insert group "Hiiiii Kyle" here). I've been building and...