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My first attempt at planting an aquarium. It's been tedious repeatedly draining the water to try to get clarity. Later I hope to order some nicer plants, but until I get a handle on keeping entry level alive this will do.

My first attempt at planting an aquarium. It's been tedious repeatedly draining the water to try to get clarity. Later I hope to order some nicer plants, but until I get a handle on keeping entry level alive this will do.

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This is awesome. I need pictures.

I've got about two inches of soil and two inches of sand, with a bit of pebbles on the surface. I watched a guy go over which soil is acceptable and bought within his ranges. I have had the tank for a week now and I'm just now getting the clarity in the photo. It's been 24 hours now so I hope it stays. Do you have any filtration at all? I'm going to be looking into nicer plants and I am wondering if I messed up already by not having enough plants now.

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>This is awesome. I need pictures.

As soon as a relearn how to remove EXIF data and shit, its been awhile since i've shared dic pics.

> Do you have any filtration at all?

Yes! What i do is i take a powerhead pump and convert it into a sponge filter. Sponge filters don't have enough flow rate for me and i notice that my tanks with less flow rate have more issues, but the tanks with the most plants and my filter set up are just fine.

Sponge; https://files.catbox.moe/fumqpn.PNG

Powerhead. https://files.catbox.moe/3a8ua7.PNG

Thats the style (cylinder) sponge is use you can get them in various sizes. I get a medium sized one and attach that to the intake with a ziptie so that it has complete seal and can't suck up my shrimp. Then i take a small sponge and ziptie that to the exahaust but its a open tube, all it does it restrict the output as its too much until a pump get worn in.

How big is your tank? I would recommend purchasing x4 packs of stems plants for the rear of the tank and 1x-2x of the jungle val you have (or whatever val that is). Also for you foreground i would increase the dward sag or haigrass by planting it in groups of 3-5 bundles about 1/4 inch apart as it helps spread but trimming and high light will do that too.

(Stems: Bocopa, ludwiga, pogostemen, moneywort, scarlette temple, Things like this clean the water well and stems are easy to manage)

Your amazon sword will grow huge, and if thats a red flam swrod in the right or red melon it will get big too.

EDIT: USE AMANO SHRIMP FOR YOUR TANKS!