Hi everyone, decided to keep a sort of online journal here, if that's ok! Wanted to share how it's been going, now that it's been...oh dear, a few months now? With my El Natural set up. How it started: I quickly realize there wasn't nearly enough plants, I had to resort to putting in carbon...

I collected this plant from about 4-6 inches of water at the edge an airboat launch on the upper St. John's River basin 5 days ago, planted it in my 40B Walstad biotope tank (unfiltered/no CO2), and it's grown about 6 inches since. I not only don't know what it is, but... now that it's reached...

An APC member TammyWhyNot wrote this in another thread and I didn't want to see it buried before a little "airing out." It's a very unusual approach to rejuvenating old substrates. She suggested adding an inch layer of sand to stimulate stalled plant growth in old tanks with decreasing plant...

Hello group! Long time no posts, lol I have the following available: 5-7 or 8 or so crypt Affinis Metalic Red, super easy and spreads quickly, $10 Cryptocoryne Crispatula Var Balansae "Red", nice tall crypt. A bit less common nowadays, $15 ea, at about 12-15 inches tall Bolbitis Heudelotti, the...

Hello I’m an absolute newbie who has been watching YouTube videos of Walstad style tanks for a long long time. Finally I took the plunge yesterday and started my tank. It’s a 45x27x30cm tank, with mineralised dirt substrate and a coarse sand cap. I think I added too much sand and too little...