I’m excited! I’m terrified! I’m learning! These “shrimp tanks” are going to be my first fish tanks since childhood. I’ve got a green thumb so I hope that helps with setting up a planted fish tank. I also wanted to make these on the cheap so I bought these 2 gallon cookie jars from Target for $14...

I first got my ostrocods from a plant order hitchhiking on some frogbit. The population exploded in my patio pond. The ostrocods, along with some stowaway bladder snails, have been eating all dead plant tissue in the pond and they are keeping algae levels to near zero! I attribute the success of...

Hello all, been into tanks for decades now and on a different planted tank forum for years and recently found this forum that seemed more equiped to assist in my current delima. I finally got a Fluval Spec III this May and got everything set up for a betta tank. Four months later im at a...

I have a greenhouse with passive solar heating. It is warmed by a 600 gallon 'pond' (absorbs heat during day...radiates back to greenhouse at night). The pond has a biological filter (bio-balls) with a small spillway. I have decided I now want to add some aquatic plants to the pond. I plan...

Hello Friends! Im spinning up a new thread to document my journey as I experiment with outdoor aquaria for the first time. This is the ‘Giant Metal Bucket’ - a 2’x6’x2’ galvanized stock tank that I plan to use as a ‘pond’ on my patio! I’ve done a bit of research, and have discovered that...