Hi Everyone, In her book, Ecology of the Planted Aquarium (Chapter 7), Diana Walstad talks about the use of aquarium plants to take up ammonium from the water. Section 4 within this chapter is entitled "Plants and Nitrifying Bacteria Compete". The essence of this is that plants prefer to uptake...

I have a low-tech planted 10 gallon Betta tank and I am interested in boosting the CO2 level a bit for the plants. I have stumbled onto the subject of passive CO2 and have heard that it does work, especially for smaller tanks. I just want to green the plants up a bit and don't really want to...

After tinkering with DIY co2, I have decided to invest in the real deal. What are the specifics to look for? I have heard that it's best to use "Food Grade" gas and equipment. Anything else I should worry about or look at??? TIA, -TF

Why do people put T-SORB in their tank and if you put a fine substrate on top of it will T-SORB stayed covered or will the two eventually mix as the small particle settle ?

Hello, my name is Flo. I started fish keeping as a child and currently own a single 20 gallon /80 l comunity tank wiht a water lettuce proplem. I would love to have more but i am currently not able too. I dont have any recent pictures of my tank so here is one i took february his year. Its looks...