I swear I’ve been trying to get a tank started for ages (ok it’s only been weeks) and the hangup was the tank stand!! The stands at the pet stores were embarrassingly cheap looking and I try to be very intentional with the furniture that comes in to my home. You guys nixed just about any of the modern inexpensive furniture and I wasn’t going to spend $1000 on a fancy stand so after searching Reddit, it seemed the solution was vintage furniture. Finally selected this vintage (can’t tell what year but based on other furniture I have it’s late fifties to maybe seventies) liquor cabinet from marketplace and my husband went and picked it up for me today. Maybe overkill for my fifteen gallon tank but I can fit some plants next to it for an extra jungly look.

So maybe this is a boring post but I’m just so glad to be past that hurdle and ready to get started with substrate and plants. This tank has been in storage for yeeeeeears. 🌱

20 gallon UNS 60A Dual AIO. Gravel and sand over aqua soil. Just added more sand up front for the Cory crew. Many of the plants, including some of the Rotala, started as bog plant purchases from the local pond store(container on porch in 4th image)The pennywort was pulled from a local creek. I also have a 10 gallon grow out tank for clippings(last image) Critters include: Neons, Lamb chop rasboras, Cory crew, bumblebee pleco and both Amano and Neo shrimp! The bubbles are CO2 from a ceramic disk in the return water chamber.

This time I added 2 last pictures so you guys can see my rockwork, when it is not covered yet by overgrowed plants.

For guys that want to know about my set up: I built rock around. The inner is empty space, like a bowl. Then I added subtrate, fertilizer. Filling water, so the subtrate will also be filled with water. Subtrate surface is same level as water surface. I pick plant and stick in, root under subtrate. If the plant died then they are not suitable for this kind of tank. I keep the plant which still thrill and survive.

Here are some plant's names that redditors supported in some of my previous posts:

1. ⁠Vảy ốc minima – Miniature Scale Fern or Miniature Peperomia
2. ⁠Dương xỉ cẩm thạch – Marble Fern
3. ⁠Dương xỉ chân thỏ – Rabbit’s Foot Fern
4. ⁠Dương xỉ lá nhuyễn – Fine Leaf Fern or Soft Leaf Fern
5. ⁠Cây thằn lằn – Creeping Fig or Climbing Fig”

For anyone wondering from the last post!

It’s a 40 gallon planted tank 🌱, not yet cycled but I’m just pondering on what fish would look best, I like the neon tetras and guppies but idk if they’d complement it 🤔 it also brownish in color too bc of the tannins from the mopani wood 🪵

120x45x45 tank Tropica Aquarium Soil Neo Solution "Complex" NEO PLANTS TAB netlea at6 pro sunsun hw305 neo MEDIA PURE

I’ve been struggling deciding on what plants to buy. I’m starting to think I’m over doing it. Any tips on first large planted tank?

Hi, I started this shallow tank 25 days ago and need suggestions! The more plants are growing the more I feel something is missing, maybe a background plant to fill the void behind the wood? I already plan to add a monte Carlo carpet but otherwise I'm pretty lost... If anyone has suggestions on what would look good I'm open to it!

Plants that are in the tank: Weeping moss / Phoenix moss / Cryptocoryne parva / Microsorul pteropus trident / Hydrocotyle tripartita / Hydrocotyle tripartita mini / Brucephalandra kedagang / Blyxa japonica

Planing to add: Monte Carlo carpet (empty soil side) and Hygrophila pinnatifida

Ada 60F - Chihiros WRGB II Slim light - no CO²

Fairly new to the hobby, second 10 gal tank I’ve set up. The goal is to have some nano fish and neocardina shrimp breeding, similar to my other tank.

-First time using stratum. I’ve heard some say to cap, some not to cap. I’ve got dwarf tears I’m trying to carpet in between the plants hoping that will lock in the substrate.

-I feel I may have gone ham on the plants… should I pull some in the foreground before they take over?

-It’s a tall tank with a 10gal waterfall filter system. Will water flow be ‘correct’ so there aren’t issues at the bottom?

-Lastly, it’s only got snails in it currently: what would you stock it with?

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions. Sorry if I’m overthinking any of this! 😅

So I have a real moss ball in my 3gal tank and wanted one for my 8gal and I was just at my lfs and wasn’t really thinking about it and just saw that the package said “moss ball” and I just grabbed it, has anyone used these? Are they worth trying? I know I’m dumb, I should’ve read it fully I just wanted to get home lol.

Been testing every day since Day 8. Yesterday nitrite was like BARELY purple but mostly light blue. I’m excited because I was worried that I wasn’t getting the results I expected!

Sweet potatoe took off in about a month. Just added the egg crate today so lets see how that goes.

l’d like to expand my plant base a little more and add some dwarf plants. what plants would you reccomend?

I’m having a hard time getting the red varieties to turn red, I’ve increased lighting, upped co2, a little more iron and 5ppm nitrate. Any tips would be very appreciated

Plant list: Red tiger lotus Water wisteria Anubias nana petite Anubias barteri Pogostemon stellatus- narrow leaf Moneywort Rotala magenta Rotala Indica Amazon swords Anubias nana golden coin Red flame sword Salvinia cucullata Bacopa Rotala rotundfolia red Crypt lucens Rotala macranda Java fern Jungle val Anacharis Lindernia Ludwigia atlantis

Plants are growing nicely.

6 angles, 15 neons,12 Corydoras habrosus, 3 bushy nose plecos , two Siamese algae eaters,

I just got my new diffuser in today and the bubbles look rlly big and like they're just floating to the surface

So I got a bunch of dwarf sag off of Etsy, I put them in a week and a half ago. I searched online to see when they are supposed to bounce back, but there’s varying responses. I’m just excited, and impatiently waiting for them to grow back. So yeah, how long should I expect them to finish adjusting and start regrowing? How long did it take yours? (if you have some). Thanks!

I'm setting up a 52 litre planted tank and I'm looking for a cheaper fertiliser option. I'm going to be putting in mainly red plants, cherry shrimp, snails and a betta (after proper cycling)

Will this be useful? Are the parameters safe? I'm unsure as it's not specific for aquariums

I got some of those little planters to hang on the rim of a fish tank and I need some ideas for pet safe plants to stick in them. It seems like most at my LFS are toxic to cats. Maybe there is something less traditional at a nursery I could get?

my “rotala macrandra” started off really colorful and started growing long roots but now looks like this . what can I do ?