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That sounds awesome, now just to find plants. Though that quikrete stuff is quite expensive over in the uk. I'm not finding decent prices on it, I could go to pets at home and get sand there for £8 which seems reasonable from what prices I'm seeing.

Ah so just some plant feed in with the sand? or on top? and that'll take care of that? I thought it was going to be alot more complicated lol

Thats actually helpful, I just went on google to look at substrates lol, nice timing. Going to look at an underlayer for plants (I think thats how it's done anyway)

Excellent, I'm gonna jot down everyones names so I can harrass ask questions to them. I'll try and do the bulkload of work first so I keep the questions to a minimum.

You'll regret telling me that haha, the amount of questions that are building up inside me is unreal. I just don't want to sound stupid, I try to research everything before hand, but there are so many contradictions out there!

Have you cleared your browsers? and what browser are you using... Chrome is quite the hungry hippo when it comes to ram. I'm on my gaming PC right now, it's not top of the line, but I'm handling the pictures smoothly. I'm using Firefox (I'm accustomed to it and know how to optimise my internet...

Apologies for the double post, but voting was the first thing I did after introducing myself lol.

Well I would quote you all and thank you for your suggestions and warm welcomes but that would create quite a large post lol. I am grateful for the help. I'm thinking of using ther 5g for a hospital tank. I'm just starting so juggling two tanks could be a recipe for disaster, but, should...

I'll pick up some Safe start tomorrow whilst I'm grabbing a test ki, probably some sand (possibly some plants after a little research). Then I'll start cycling and monitoring the water. Hopefully it's all going to be good. Super excited, but I really don't want to rush anything. Trying to pace...

Thanks for the help, take care, Yerp it's dgh/HC/GH so many names for essentially the smae thing lol. Excellent news, I just have to look at which cory and his tank mates. Thank you muchly!

I have soft water 1.61 (not to sure about the 1.61 part, but the water is soft), I would like some plants in there, I kind of want a natural looking tank. I've yet to look deep into cory's so I'm going to have to see if my water is good enough for them.

Thank you for your welcome :) I editted my OP, the previous owner got rid of his tetra's hence the selling of this tank. Unfortunately he got rid of all the gravel in the tank as I mentioned I want a sand bed, as I really want a little cory because I just think they're so damned adorable...

Thank you for the welcome :) I've read about cycling the tank (Still got to grab my test kit, I'll pick on eup tomorrow just to be ready). I just know alot of people use media that has already sustained fish healthily. I'm just unsure if I should put new media in there. Is there anything I...

Hey guys! I'm actually new to the hobby, I've always wanted to have my own aquarium but sadly there has always been something getting in the way (mainly money). My friend knew someone getting rid of a tank, it was last used the day prior and had 8~ neon tetra's in it. It's an aqua one Aquasmart...