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  1. New to Planted Aquariums
    Hello! I hope someone here is more knowledgeable than myself on this matter. I am currently cycling my aquarium, dosing ammonium chloride (Tim’s) and the ammonia is at 1ppm and nitrite .50ppm mis it safe to have the plants in the aquarium during this chaotic balancing stage? I’ve only ever...
  2. General Aquarium Plants Discussions
    I have an aquarium that is currently only being occupied by a snail and a few hundred copepods. It was previously occupied by actual fish, but they sadly passed. Anyway, now I have this fish tank called the Fluval Spec V, just sitting on my organizer, and I'm wanting something to do with it...
  3. General Aquarium Plants Discussions
    Hi everyone, I’ve been having some problems with my tank and I’m not sure exactly what’s going on. I have a water testing kit and for most of the period over the past two weeks. All the levels have been in acceptable ranges. Nitrate was a little high once, and pH has been a little low. About a...
  4. El Natural
    So i have moved this discussion back to my journal so if it possible to delete this discussion please do so.
  5. Lighting
    Hello everyone, I’m new to both high tech tanks and APC so please bear with me. I will try to succinctly explain my problem and thank parameters. I’ve had my current tank set up for about six months, but I have been converting over to high tech since the beginning of January. I guess I’ll...
  6. General Aquarium Plants Discussions
    I just set up a 20 gal walstad tank with 3/4 inch of miracle gro that I soaked beforehand. It has 1.25 inch of seachem flourite substrate cap. It’s only been a week and I have planted a LOT of rotala, ludwig, and a few vals and wisteria. I noticed the tops of all the plants look very healthy and...
  7. El Natural
    So this project is several months down the line June hopefully. It's all hinging on renovating my 400 gal pond. I thought I would be able to at least move the rocks out but nope, its Michigan and we have had rain, 3 days of 60° weather then snow then rain then this morning more snow...... i am...
  8. General Aquarium Plants Discussions
    Hey everyone! I having been battling with myself on what is the correct thing to do. I have. 125 gallon discus planted tank with some other fish that go well with discus in it. Also have a 40 gallon goldfish tank. I have been using strait RODI water in it. The first fill was with strait tap...
  9. El Natural
    Hi everyone! I have been a long time lurking and decided to make a post because I couldn't find one asking my exact question. So I have a 5.5 gallon Walstad shrimp/snail tank that has been setup for approximately 9 months. It made a cross-country move and frankly the plants are doing better than...
  10. General Aquarium Plants Discussions
    Tiny tanks, Walstad to the rescue?! Help! Part THREE of my (Q's) SAGA SERIES I want to try a Walstadd tank with my smallest aquarium (1.5) since Walstad is known to be good for fish bowls, nanos and the like. Regarding my 5 tanks. I don't know where to start with my upgrading since I don't...
  11. Journals
    Hi everyone. http://youtube.com/c/waterculture id like to direct you towards our YouTube channel where we do 12 week long series (The current one is the step by step of a dutch style nano aquarium) we also upload regular shorts on the various fish and plants that we keep, We also have a poll...
  12. Aquascaping
    Due in part to the help from this forum, my tank is finally starting to look good :) Here are some pictures from today! I'm still modifying the scape because I'm not 100% happy with the way it looks, but I've only had this tank up and running since July 31st. I can't wait to pull out the ugly...
  13. Filtration
    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...
  14. For Sale or Trade
    Aquatic plant that is fairly new to the hobby and only a handful who has it still... A Syngonanthus that grows compact/smaller than its cousin, Syngonanthus caulescens... Same care and requirements like the other Syngonanthus spp... First time you will see it FS as I need to thin down my herd...
  15. El Natural
    Dear group, Unfortunately, I come to you with yet another problem at the moment just as I wanted to show how well my tank was doing! Well, I'll show that first anyway :) The fish were (and still are) happy, but from the center of the tank a sort of plantocalypse is happening. All the...
  16. New to Planted Aquariums
    Tank setup and Plant Suggestions? 20 Gallon Tank Mostly Invertebrates. I plan on doing the following for a 20 Gallon Tank. 8 White cloud Minnows 1 Mystery Snail 6 Nerite Snails 5 Cherry Shrimp This is going to be a Planted tank. I will be establishing the plants first before I add the...
  17. Equipment
    Help please? I've am so confused about my CO2 and Ph levels in my 65 gal planted tank. The more I read the more confused I get. My Ph is a natural 7.8 from the tap and in my tank. I have be injecting CO2 for about 2 yrs now and still can't get it right. I just purchased a CO2 regulator/reactor...
  18. For Sale or Trade
    Some new items and some old for sale! Very much getting overgrown now. 8 - Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides $1 for 10 nodes 8 - Lilaeopsis brasiliensis (micro sword) $1 for 10 nodes 8 - Ambulia $1 each 8 - Ranunculus inundatus $1 each 5 - lobelia cardinalis $1.50 each, larger plants 2 - 25 stem...
  19. General Aquarium Plants Discussions
    Hello everyone and good evening from Seattle! I am new to this forum and I apologize if I have posted to the wrong area or anything. I am experiencing some trouble though. I am a somewhat experienced fish keeper, but I am not experienced with plants. So far I've just been doing what various...
  20. For Sale or Trade
    Algae & Pest Free - Tissue Cultures - Free Shipping till Fathers Day! 2018 Please PM regarding questions, pictures, and PayPal payment Glossostigma elatinoides Jade - ONE LEFT - $24 Althernanthera Reineckii Mini - $10 each Alternanthera reineckii Purple - $10 each Amblystegium serpens 'Nano...
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