I have recently plated some hornwort stems in my tank and I see that they grew really tall really quick. The number gap between the the leave nodes is around 5-6cm, which is really diffrent from what I see in pictures on the internet. The tips also look yellowish brown and not the dark lush...

So I'm having a really tough time with staghorn algae in the past week or two. I had an outbreak of columnaris, ran a UV filter for a about 10 days. When I removed it I also did a big trim and removed 90% of my red root floaters since they were practically covering the entire surface. Since...

My Marino moss ball Newton is looking weird can you tell me what could be wrong and how I could fix it ? The big one is Newton Thx! Also in my Marino jar there are tiny moving white specks what are they ?

Soil consisting of 60% peat moss, 40% composed bark fines and iron sulfate (50g/m3) additive, would it be ok for a Walstad tank even if it has a pH of 4? Or would it be beneficial to have a soil exclusively consisting of either peat moss or compressed bark fines? Cheers,

Hello new to planted aquariums. Have 6 gallon cube hoping to turn into shrimp tank and 40 gallon breeder. Trying to turn into a planted garden. Tanks been up and running since early December. Trying to stabilize and get past the melt off. Always open to advice.