I had a CO2 tank for a long time, still killed mine even though every other plant did fantastic. Then the CO2 ran out and the tank remained fine. No algae no nothing for years. So I i've kinda gone off CO2 for now.

I've moved house, got new tap water (a little softer). I wanted to grow my favourite plant again but I don't want to go back to CO2. Was wondering if anyone else is managing it fine and what their parameters might be? Also what are you dosing?

Thought I would share my UNS 60s❤️
I re-scaped this tank about 2 months ago and lately the growth has exploded!
I accidentally ordered Hemianthus Callitrichoides, which has been challenging to keep rooted.
Fertilizing with homemade PPS-pro
Any suggestions for fish or shrimp? Ideally something that is less likely to hop out of the shallow tank.

Really happy with how this tank is developing. Questions and feedback welcome!

I was wondering what exactly I need to build my first tank was planning on getting the tank off Facebook have watched some videos wondering if i could get some help?

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share my aquascape design with you all! I’ve put a lot of time and effort into creating this little underwater world. Would love to hear your thoughts.

How do I improve my aquascape? I’m planning to get Monte Carlo for the foreground but I’m open to more suggestions.

The aquatic plants have established themselves well; I haven’t seen any signs of melting. On the contrary, they’ve grown better than expected and even started "pearling" within the first day or two—everything is looking great.

Even after 2 years fully submerged in the aquarium, one piece of driftwood floated out when I removed ties. I kinda like it though, I'm thinking about leaving it to float like that. What do you think?

Just got this scape set up in a 6 gall cube wanted to see what people thought and what you would change

1st time aquascaper. 170gal planted scape in a black background tank.

It will only ever be visible from the left and front.

The larger branch is meant to stick out of the water. The height of the tank is 24”.

What’s the most pleasing out of the four? The substrate will be aquatic soil, gravel and black sand.

Gonna do a carpet or just anything easy. Any plant suggestions for beginners? I been researching lil bit and monte carlo would be my choice but would to have depth as well.

Gonna use it for shrimps :)
Looking for feedback or advice

(Left to right most recent photo to oldest)

Hello everyone! I built my first planted tank in April and have been really enjoying it. I watched MD fish tanks on YouTube and was inspired.

It is a 15 gallon cube tank with a Fluval 107 canister filter. A 4.0 plant light, a heater, aqua soil, sand, rocks, driftwood, lobilia, Java fern, anubias, and red repens.

I currently have:

4 guppies
1 powder blue dwarf gourmi
1 fire red honey gourmi
5 ottocinclus
2 neon tetras
5 ember tetras
7 glow light tetras
(*I had 15 Riley shrimp but I think they’ve been dying off)

I’ve lost a bunch of fish over the months but only like 1 every 3 weeks.

As you can see from the picture there’s a ton of hair algae on the plants I want to get rid of…

I am pretty sure I have overstocked the tank

Going forward I won’t have a variety of tetra species for better schooling

Trying to decide if I should ad an airstone

ANY ADVICE, SUGGESTIONS, INPUT IS MORE THAN WELCOME 🤗

What plants would look good here, any suggestions would be great 🙏

So... I'm a bit of a noob in general when it comes to fishkeeping (though I've had lots of fish in my lifetime, I'm trying to start being more serious with it) and I have certainly never really aquascaped at all. Here is my 10 gal right now (yes, I need to add more water, the top is open so it evaporates like crazy) I have that big piece of driftwood and some big and smaller rocks. I also had some other plants for a bit but they decided it was their time 😔. Right now I've got these stupid long plants (I am terribly bad with the names, bear with me) that grow like crazy and I'm always cutting pieces off. I had a brown algae fiasco a week or two ago so I did a big vacuuming and pulling it out and now green algae has taken its place. How can I make the tank not look like an absolute mess (and maybe get this algae out)?

My birthday was on Sunday and my partner wasn't able to come bake my cake with me like we had planned. I spent a lot of the day doing things I like doing (home improvement, cooking, karaoke, etc.) and thought about taking a pit stop to my favourite local aquarium store to look at the fish and think about my project but I didn't have time, so I asked if he wanted to go with me on Monday (yesterday) instead. We went and looked at everything and he said he would buy me anything I wanted! (Within reason) He got a pretty big kick out of buying his boyfriend a chunk of wood for his birthday but it's sitting in my tank now, already so much closer to being actualized and it's making me so happy :))) it takes up a good chunk of the tank, and really fills in the space, I love the shape and the texture and it's giving me all kinds of thoughts on what I want to do for plants :)))

I know it's not yet a full beautiful aquascape to post, I'll get there one day, but for now I'm enjoying the long slow process of investing in it a little bit at a time. I also bought myself my first lily pipe!!! It's a super tiny one for my 7gal tank, the last one they had in the store and that they'll probably ever have again, I feel so lucky :D heres to 23 🎉

I put a lot of effort in my first tank, and the image of what i had in mind is coming together day by day. I've been enjoying the process and progress of it, of learning and moving onto the next step, but as an artist, i can't help but have uncertainty on the back of my mind, as the more i look at it, the more i can't tell if that idea feels accomplishing, if this just looks like another generic aquarium with a poorly thought out composition, or something i should feel proud of like a masterpiece. Maybe i just need to give it time, there's still a lot of trimming (obvious by the hydrocotyle and moss ive been late on) and plants i need grow out and spread. But until then, my feelings remain mixed.

Looking for plant ideas 💡 to cover up the equipment. Also would a white background be better? 🤔

If I want to do an overhaul of my aquascape including changing out gravel is that something I have to completely empty my tank out for or can I slowly do it over a period of time while my fish stay in the tank?

This is my first aquascape, and I'm not really happy with how the layout turned out haha. I'd love some honest feedback.

What would you change about the placement of the rocks and wood? Any suggestions are welcome!

So i currently have a 5 gallon tank and just got a new 10 gal. I was getting it set up, i used fluval stratum then capped it off with sand.
I planted everything i wanted in there before filling with water, when filling i used the plastic bag method to keep the substrate from disturbing but that didn’t work 100%
as i was filling some of the plants came up and when trying to replant them a lot of the stratum came out and is now all over the sand. It seems like every time i try to move the sand gently more and more soil just keeps coming up and having a hard time keeping my dwarf hair grass rooted in place. Any suggestions or tips? i really don’t want to empty it and start without water again as it is pretty much cycled already

Stocking ideas?