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It’s not the greatest tank but I like it. Still have more planting to do. Plants: bucephalandra giant motleyana, bucephalandra dark skeleton king, bucephalandra pink lady, bucephalandra belindae, & caloglossa beccarri

So I need to do the opposite of what I see a lot of people asking about on this subreddit😅I’m breaking down one of my tanks, and it has a lot of terrestrial plants. Not limited to ficus pumila, pilea, a couple ferns, pothos, scindapsus, raphidiphora, monstera adansonii, hemigraphis, etc….i want to keep the plants, but I’m worried that moving them directly into soil may shock them and kill most of them. Any safe bets or tips on safely transplanting them from water to soil pots again? They’ve been in the tank for well over a year, so they’re quite adjusted in there. Any advice would be appreciated!

Thoughts, suggestions, critiques on my nano tank so far?

It’s about 4 months old and houses a colony of neo shrimp and 2 mystery snails. Current plants are a 2 java ferns, 2 amazon swords, 1 anubias, java moss (that I like to call the bush), a small moss ball, and some frogbit on the surface. The only other decor is 3 pieces of cholla wood and I always keep an Indian almond leaf. Substrate is a mix of black pebbles and white sand.

Need help

i ordered these plants for my 10gal betta tank today. can anyone give me general advice/tips on how to care for these plants? im not necessarily new to fish keeping but this will be my first time planting a tank. thank you sm! also recommend more plants to add.

I have some anubis in my 10 gallon both are cuttings from a different plant in my 29 gallon and one cutting is high in the 10 gallon only a few inches from the light and its leaves are 2x smaller than the one closer to the bottom and both in the 10 gallon have smaller leaves than the og plant that's in my lower light 29g and the cuttings have been in the tank for over a year now so its not just new growth that hasn't reached full size yet

Where do I even start? I have a tank with the only plants being Java Fern and Anubis as my tank just has rocks at the bottom.

What are the basics needed to start a planted tank in terms of substrate? Do I add gravel? I literally know nothing about this so a lesson would be great. Thanks!

So as the title says, these worms appeared over the last 3 days (beem away from home but wife kept feeding the shrimp). The corner we throw most food is on the picture, but i see the worms everywhere.

So, are they due to overfeeding? And.. are they dangerous? I guess if we feed less they'll disappear again.

Sidenote: added 10 helena snails from a local fb group 2 weeks ago, maybe thats the cause?

And is there any fish that eats these worms? Currently only have snails and shrimps in my 70l tank.

I'm trying out a dwarf hairgrass only tank (no fish or live stock)

I'm dosing with fertilizer, excel, high light, co2.. the works.

Should I angle the outflow to create surface agitation or is that just wasting co2? Again there will be no fish in this tank

Hello! I am looking into keeping aquatic arthropods like shrimp or even insects. I know sometimes aquarium plants are treated with pesticides, and I'd really prefer to avoid losing any animals to it. So I'm wondering if anyone knows any good places to get pesticide free plants?

Had what appeared to be a complete cycle (dosed with Dr Tim’s ammonia) up to 4 ppm, then added Fritz Turbostart 700, saw nitrite spike up to 5.0ppm with ammonia down to 0, then reduction back down to 0 ppm a day and a half later, with about 10ppm nitrates. Added back some ammonia to check cycle, up to 2 ppm, within 18 hours ammonia was back to 0 ppm, but nitrite is now again spiked up to almost 4 ppm. Is something like this typical until the tank balances itself out? Tank is fairly heavily planted, co2, 15 gallon, with aqua soil. Still no fish, but had one nerite snail I added after the first zero out of ammonia and nitrite to handle some of the algae growth.

Hi everybody. I’m setting up a smaller tank to house a Betta. I’ve been given a Fluval Spec 19 by a friend but they said the standard light isn’t great for plants. Seems to be mixed opinions from my research.

The plants I’ve selected are all shows as easy to grow with low light requirements (mainly lava fern, Java moss and Anubias). But I’d read anything carpeting tend to need atleast medium light.

Will the stock light bar be enough for these to thrive? My friend offered to sell me a Fluval Plant Nano but I’m wondering if it’s a beneficial upgrade over the stock light?

I’d read the Finnex Planted+ (non 24/7 version) was a good upgrade for this tank but it seems to be almost impossible to find in the UK.

^Before I added most of the fish and before the wood tannings leeched out

I have a new 10 gallon freshwater planted aquarium. It came out good. I am in the process of changing a few things, because the wood I used, the tannings are making the aquarium blood red even though I boiled and then re-boiled it, so I am just going to change to fake wood. But a bigger problem is that the plants I planted (Alternanthera Reineckii Bronze, Amazon Sword Plant, Red Tiger Lotus Aquarium Lily, Mini Super Red Ludwigia, Cardinal Plant, Monte Carlo, and Anubis), are just getting obliterated by the fish stock, first the cardinal plant, and now that that is pretty much a skeleton, they are nipping at the anubis and ludwigia, breaking off most of their leaves and stems, and I think my snail likes the pour tiny tiger lily bulb.

Most of my ludwigia which has now floated to the surface

what is left of the anubis

Here is a full stock list: 3 ghost shrimp, 6 neon tetras, one honey guarami, one snail, and 3 serpae tetras. I was having issues with nitrite levels but I got that figured out, and was hoping that would de stress them. I am going to change the wood out and upgrade the filter and hopefully that would help as well. I am feeding them enough for sure, I think the serpae tetras are just being unnecessarily aggressive, as seen here(It's a short video but I see that kind of action repeatedly sometimes when I'm watching). What should I do besides that? I know plants will usually wilt a little while they acclimate themselves but it's definitely not just that, unless the fish chill out, all the plants are on track to die. I did plant a lot of monte carlo grass seeds though, and it is now starting to grow in, so it's possible if they start eating that instead, it could allow the other plants to survive. On a side note, can I sprinkle in more monte carlo grass seeds while the fish are in the tank?

6 month review. Just gotta wait for the anubias plants to grow now but really happy with this

Scape was difficult to find but I found this piece at the bottom of my LFS hardscape bin. I added fissidens fontanus moss and umbrella grass for the first time, hope it grows out and gives this scape the look and feeling I'm after. Trimmings and cuttings from my other tanks. Cut my kedagang red buce for the first time. I'm tempted to cut more but I'll wait just incase shit starts melting! Thx r/incogCHETo for the moss that came quickly from the other side of the US!

Hi, what would you do if it was your aquarium? =

The top of one of my aquarium have alot of floating plants. And even with some "cleared spaces" (you can see on the picture), i think some plants suffer from so much floating plants.

Should i let those floating plants and get more oxygen/filtration naturally or should i remove some top plants to allow more light for other plants? Or add another light source? Something else?
Thanks!

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Bought a bag of alder cones, introductions were to add one per gallon. I added five for 30 gallons! How long until this settles out?