Title essentially, the aquarium store quoted a tank for me and placed two filters, a 20 gal fluval filter for my tank, and a small sponge filter with a airpump. I plan on building a 10 gallon so would both be necessary or could I get away with just the Aqua Coop sponge filter?

Cycling a planted tank and wanted to know if this is too much on a 29 gallon tank. I have an Aquaclear 50 and here’s what I want to get below. If you have any additions replacements or subtractions to the list, let me know!! Thanks guys!!

1 Apisto Cacatuodies (center piece) 8 Cardinal Tetras 6 Pygmy Cory’s 1 Homey Gurami

Either Snail or large Shrimp for algae control

I was looking into purchasing some dense floating plants for my betta tank so he could rest in them closer to the surface. However my local pet stores near me don’t sell floating plants. I was looking for recommendations of some good floating plants and hopefully some trusted websites where I can purchase them from that won’t cost an arm and a leg shipping to BC Canada! Thank you for the help.

What substrate is good for plants? I wanna use sand but I know the plants will need some nutrients so I was gonna use substrate bags but I do not know what to use. I’ve seen aqua soil topsoil some different mixtures. What do you guys use?

I’m moving houses to a more permanent situation, advice on how to move it without having to start over on water

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What is this turquoise like color in my sand? There's a few more locations with it.

I like to keep it on the wild side.

Went on vacation and had a major algae bloom the weeks after I got back. Bloom cause a ton of plant diatom build up. Parameters have now stabilized but I'm wondering if continued water changes alone will remove the algae or if mechanical assistance will be needed.

I kinda wanna add more plants

I got into the hobby not long ago when I took in a friend’s betta and I’ve been wanting to scape a nano shrimp tank for months. I finally got around to it and here it is! It’s a 5 gallon tank and I’m only running an RGB light, sponge filter and a water heater at the moment, but want to add some C02 to help the carpet. I have some parrot feather in the back, rotala, vallisneria, and hydrocotle tripartita as the carpet. It’s only been cycling for about a week now so no shrimp yet. This picture is from day one and there a LOT of bio film on the spider wood, which I know is expected. I added a nerite a couple days ago. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as this is my first tank doing this properly!

This plant is at my LFS but it has no tag to identify it, anybody know for sure if it’s chain sword?

This is my first attempt at a high tech planted tank, and the tank itself is a 75 gallon and about 8 months old. Give any advice or criticism you'd like!

I have no clue how to help my levels. It's stressing me out and I'm starting to feel like I wanna give up.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. 😕

I'm doing research, taking advice, asking questions... it seems like it's all for nothing. As nothing is helping.

It's been about a month since water was added to the tank. About a week and a half since I last added plants.

What’s the best substrate for plants? I’m setting up a tank for my parents and although I have a planted tank of my own it only has gravel and I know that’s not ideal for plants. Something relatively cheep so I don’t run my parents up a 1000$ dollers 🥲. Lmk pls!

I've currently got a 5-gallon betta with rock substrate and anubias nana, the only thing that survived.

A friend is giving me her 20 gallon tank. I'd like to have a legit planted tank, full of low-demand, easy care plants. What do I want for substrate? What plants do I want aside from anubias? If anyone has a good tank "recipes" I'd love to see them.

My intention is to get the tank cycled and ready for the betta to live out his senior years with his two snails, then transition to white cloud minnows and maybe some Cory cats.

My ANUBIAS released two new leaves recently, one of them was green but the newest one is yellow, is that good or bad?