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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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Maybe not many but I would be interested in reading about your adventures. What are you breeding? I fondly remember breeding fan tailed guppies and trading 6 gorillion of them for four veiled pearl angels in the 80's.

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I do it different than anyone else i think. I have ZERO water changes. I add water. I Don't take away. My tanks are heavily planted and i use a 4"-6" thick substrate mix with pebbles in the backing slope to allow anaerobic bacterial growth intentionally. Lots of floating plants and frequent trimmings mean i have zero ammonia or nitrites/ates.

As a rule of thumb that means a lot more plant than fish, so i nerd in nano fresh water.

  • apistogramma cacatuoides super red: Only had the pair for about 2 weeks and they spawned in a 20 Gallon. Separated the male a week or two late so he may have got some fry but i have around ~15 growing up right now and will try for a second spawn when i move the female into the males tank

  • Galaxy Danio (Celestial Pearl Danio) I have these guys breeding in a 30 Gallon, about ~15 fry growing with adults,

  • In the same 30G i have Scarlett Dario dario that bred in my 75G i just have them living in the same tank.

  • I also breed blue dream shrimp and have a good lineage going on Gen 20+.

I keep otocinculs, pygmy corydora, ornate gobyies, SAE, Chili rasbora and sparkling Gourami.

And i have a pea puffer for the wife's tank upstairs. Yes i have my own fish room.

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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!

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I have set up a tank for my husband also, same set up but different layout.

I had a pufferfish when I was a kid, I haven't seen those since then. You must have a decent aquarium shop.

Love all the fish you have. My daughter's tank has 2 honey and 2 trichogaster gourami, one angel, five albino cory, a bristlenose pleco, african frog, and a kuhli loach. One of my sons has a great variety of South African cichlids, and my other son has rainbow sharks, serpae tetras, and tiger barbs.

Their tanks are all 55 gallons.

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I forgot about my kuhili loaches! they hide in the 30 gallon i have about 5 of them so cute!

Dwarf watter lettuce and duckweed are nice floating plants and easy to scoop and toss. Also i hatch my own brine shrimp i can do a basic tutorial its super easy.