#plantedtank

3 weeks later 😍🌱

I have a 30 gallon tank with 12 celestial pearl danios, 12 harlequin rasboras and 6 kuhli loaches, can I add a female betta? I understand that CPD are very shy fish and I don't want to stress them out by the betta being there. I also don't want the betta to be stressed by all the small fish...

New fish arrive tomorrow :) everything is clean and ready and Im doing a fishless cycle on the new tank, which is currently lined with river sand and soil. Need more sand, and will do multiple wcs before anyone goes in there. Water parameters were amazing on my 180L, no NH3/NH4, ph of 7.6, Im...

I'm vaguely unsure on what to do at the moment. We have 3 fish tanks, 1 40gal, 1 3 gal, and a 75gal. All of them are planted tanks. The power has been out for about 45 minutes now, and according to the power company, will be out for another hour or so. What should I do??

I recently got API lead zone for my Java fern and red roof floaters but I’m worried about overdosing. Would 1.25 ml be too much?

I’m glad I got rid of all that color gravel because this looks way better. UPDATE; I added plants into my tank ! What do you guys think? I do plan on maybe getting other things since I think it kinda looks empty , I like the wood piece in the middle of the tank but maybe over time I’ll move it.

For a while I have had a few struggles with my freshwater aquarium. In the past I had issues with general hardness as my water source had absolutely no mineral content and it led to a lot of fish loss, especially since my local pet store had an extremely high water hardness level. I eventually...

Hello all, I had a discussion in a past forum where I was having some issues with my mollies passing away, and found out that mollies should be in hard water and not soft. I currently still have the 5 from last time and they are doing great. I was doing some research on maybe some substitutes I...

Hello! My parents have finally approved that I can start further improving my fish tank. :fish: This will be a thread of the progress. I will be posting more on the weekends but during weekdays, I may post updates occasionally. I will not be adding new fish/snails but I will be generally...

Hello all, I talked a lot to @Byron on a separate form that was relating to one of my sick mollies about plants as well, but I decided I make a new forum so others can also find it easier I have just added some water sprite and cryptocoryne to my 29 gallon tank with mollies. What I did was...

Here is my current fish tank shelf, what do you guys think? I feel like something is missing, I might add a planted shrimp bowl on the top of the shelf.

I'm experienced in fishkeeping. I'm redoing my aquarium, and having a tetra tank of about 100 tetras. I know the general rule is 6+ per kind of tetra. Would I be able to do 4 of each kind up to 100 fish? Would this work? I know less than 6 of each kind usually means there could be aggression but...

We have a 20 gallon hexagon tank (~15" across, ~20" high) that currently has fake plants and we want to transition it into all live plants. Right now, we have a fluorescent light bulb and we are looking into getting an LED light instead. I have the NICREW Classic LED Plus for my own tank and it...

check out the video i did of me setting it up. no filter, but i put an airstone in there to push nutrients around. ultra low light. picture represents 6 months of growth. ghost shrimp love it. babies everywhere.

Hi everyone! I’m picking up my 250L tank tomorrow and I’m wanting to have a lot of live plants. I’m wondering what would be the best substrate for a planted tank. I wanted to get the Carib sea eco complete but I can’t find it anywhere online. I don’t think any aquarium shops near me sell it...

Okay so I have a 45 gallon planted tank with some discus. I am about to try and create a moss carpet. I want to add some CO2 to the water for the plants. My plants are growing fine now but I really want them to flourish. So I am wondering what’s the best way to add CO2 and how much do I add...

I really want to get a moss carpet in my tank. I tried to buy one online but they are only sold in like 5"-10" pieces. I have a 45 gallon so i would definitely need more than that. I know that I can buy some moss and sandwich it between two pieces of mesh, but can i do the same with moss seeds...

This seemed to have recently started and im not quite sure what the cause is. He seems to be still fairly active but he's swimming by like wiggling and keeps flipping upside down. His fins are all intact so I know that's not the issue. I'm not sure whats going on or how serious this is so any...

My nerite snails shells have been slowly been getting eaten away by my water. I have well water that comes in for my use and the fish tank is planted. I had been feeding them snailoo and I have a cuttlefish bone in the tank. I was wondering if this is enough to promote the regrowth of their...