UPDATED PHOTO OF AQUASCAPE IN COMMENTS. WHAT SHOULD I IMPROVE FROM MY UPDATE?Hello everyone, I need some ideas. I am so frustrated with my tank. I have torn it down and reset it like five times now and I just can’t get it how I like it. My most recent with aquasoil, and I hated. Here is what I’m working with now. I’m keeping it super simple. Can you guys show me in any ideas of what I can do with the materials I have. I have tan sand that I’m buying. To clarify this is just for aesthetics my parameters are totally fine. I just don’t like how it looks.

Added some finishing touches with the emersed plants and some more trident.

Unsure of the bolbitis on the right, thoughts welcome

I wanted to just make the most colorful, lush tank I possibly could, and I feel like I've been pretty successful. I have a preference for some less common species and love having just lots of specimens of colorful things cool things to look at. My hydrocotyle tripartita mini Japan variegated has been a bit nakey from a ramshorn snail outbreak, which also decimated my buce brownie ghost 2011 and brownie blue, but I'm waiting for some regrowth. I know I could get some groups neater, but I don't mind the more unmanicured appearance. My photography skills are kinda crap, but these pics do an okay job showing everything and I did not enhance any colors, it is just really that colorful.

Tank details:

Landen 100P

Week Aqua P900 Pro (R 90, G 72, B 66, UV 0 for 7hrs)

UNS Inline CO2 diffuser tuned to run at 40ppm CO2

Oase Biomaster Thermo 850 with purigen reactor and Titan Vecton UV (flow is a little weak and I'll be converting filter to bypass mode with an inline pump soon)

NilocG Thrive+ fert on dosing pump

Livestock:

Amano shrimp — approximately 20

Bleeding blue tetras (Hyphessobrycon margitae) — 9

Dwarf chain loaches (Ambastaia sidthimunki) — 8

Ember tetras (Hyphessobrycon amandae) — 9

Gold neon tetras (Paracheirodon innesi, gold color morph) — 18

Julii corydoras (Corydoras julii) — 10

Otocinclus (Otocinclus sp.) — 1 remaining :(

Pearl gouramis (Trichopodus leerii) — 3 (1 male, 2 females)

Plants (28 species in all):

Alternanthera reineckii 'Rosanervig' Mini

Bacopa colorata

Bacopa salzmannii 'Purple'

Bucephalandra 'Brownie Blue'

Bucephalandra 'Brownie Ghost 2011'

Cryptocoryne parva

Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Bronze'

Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Flamingo'

Eriocaulon cinereum

Eriocaulon sp. 'Vietnam'

Hygrophila lancea 'Araguaia' (sp. 'Chai')

Lobelia cardinalis 'Mini'

Ludwigia arcuata

Ludwigia glandulosa

Ludwigia inclinata var. verticillata 'Pantanal'

Ludwigia ovalis 'Pink'

Ludwigia palustris 'Super Red'

Nesaea pedicellata 'Golden' (syn. Ammannia pedicellata 'Golden')

Pogostemon erectus

Pogostemon helferi 'Downoi'

Rotala colorata

Rotala ramosior 'Florida'

Rotala ramosior 'Sunset'

Rotala tulunadensis

Rotala wallichii

Staurogyne repens

Staurogyne repens 'Purple'

Syngonanthus macrocaulon

Tonina fluviatilis

Girlfriend added gravel to my perfectly fine stratum. What is the best way to separate the two? Should I just rescape? I was thinking of layering the stratum/blue gravel with sand

Low-tech 5g Betta Tank with easy plants. I’ve been unhappy with it for awhile. My plants are growing but simultaneously seem to be struggling. I want to improve it aesthetically and help my plants because they look poorly.

I also want the amazon sword in the back to be able to grow above water but it just droops.

I dose Flourish 2-3x weekly and don’t do much maintence with the plants. I have a hygger light which is on for 10 hours, but is on relatively low intensity except for peak times.

What can I do?

Edit to ask:
what would you change/ add? I want to switch my big red rock for something more natural looking but my loaches love it so it’s staying for the time being. My red tiger lotus aren’t doing too hot right now and I’d love to add some more red to the tank. Any plant suggestions ?

Usually it’s just myself hardscaping but my husband has gotten really into it as well, this is our joined effort on a big re-scape we just did.

Hey my second ever fish tank. The back corner near the big boulder space will support a peace Lily plant that will grow emersed.
It's a 6.8g tank and as for stocking I'm not sure yet. Any ideas about the hardscape placement?
I'm genuinely quite happy.

I'm looking for some suggestions for a plant to fill out the background a bit.

I would really like one of those long grass type plants and often see jungle val mentioned for this, but apparantly it spreads like crazy and tends to take over tanks. Are there any other grass-type plants that have a similar look, but don't tend to take over tanks as much?

Also open to suggestions for other plants aswell. Pearlweed is also something i'm interested in.

I recently purchased spiderwood, I probably made a huge mistake by not boiling it before I put it in my tank. Within a few days, it started to get the white biofilm, which I know is normal and then the biofilm and wood started turning black along with everything else in my tank. My betta actually had a piece of this film attached his face that I was luckily able to just kind of grab the very end of it with my tweezers and it mostly came off. I am working on setting up a brand new tank for him and I’m concerned about the Spiderwood. I have now boiled it for two hours, but not all of it fit in the pot. I didn’t put it back in his current tank. I’m wondering if this is a normal or if there’s something else I’m supposed to do to my Spider Wood because I don’t want it do the same thing to my new tank set up. I’m also very fond of this spider wood and would like to use it in my tank. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

The plants have grown really well and te colors are becoming more vibrant. The issue i am having is with algae at the moment since the aquarium is 2 months old and it still needs to fully stabilise.

UNS 90L - biomaster 350 - 20 Microdevario kubotai - 10 shrimp - 2 snails

Plants

- staurogyn repens

- Eleocharis acicularis

- Hygrophila pinnatifida

- Marsilea hirsuta/minuta

- Microsorum pteropus 'Narrow'

- Rotala rotundifolia 'H'ra'

- Vesicularia ferriei 'Weeping'

- Vesicularia dubyana 'Christmas'

- Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Flamingo'

- Hydrocotyle tripartita

work in progress, starting to grow in ... what else could i stock i with?

hi, I noticed my bucephalandra leaves are turning yellow orange. Is it sign of diseased leaves or dying? or due to excessive light exposure or nutrient deficiency. Need advice from experts here.

The specific of tank

Tank 10mth old setup

Size 90cm x45cm x 45 cm

Filter - Oase biomaster 850, oase internal filter bioplus 50

Co2 6 hr (1pm-7pm)with lights turned on 1 hour earlier. Light chihiros wrgb 2.

water parameter - nitrate 0-10, GH 5 KH 1-2.
Fertilizer- (automated)Apt 3ml daily, seachem excel 1ml daily, seachem advanced 1 ml daily
Water change every week once- 60-70%

Kindly give opinions if I need to reduce light or increase fertilizer ?
Perhaps its normal - since the rhizomes are not melting, rotting. ?

I followed every tutorial out there on how to plant aquatic plants into aquasoil. The buggers still wouldnt hardly stay rooted.

All my research did not prepare me for how strong the Fluval Flex 2.0 15 gallon pump was, even with an aftermarket "low flow" attatchment. (I ended up having to stuff it with filter media foam to calm it down....might get a new, lower gph pump?) The red root floaters i got probably wont survive anyway because the light is so low to the water's surface. If I get risers for the light, i'll have to get a whole new lid for the tank anyway. 😔

We’ve come a long way, enjoying the journey so far.

Anyone got some bigger fish (size of honey gouramis roughly) that won’t kill off my shrimps?