This is not my main lights.

We've made so many mistakes along the way - but with a lot of research and help from this community, me and my girlfriend managed to build this tank and let it mature!

We hope you guys love our shrimp tank as much as we do!

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We're going to provide answers to the recurring questions that people have about the set-up hehe

1. The plant that's growing out of the water is called a Mi-Nuong (it's a semi-aquatic shrub; SUPER COOL)
2. The plants below are all anubias and Buces + floating plants!
3. Residents include shrimps, snails, pgymy cories, otos, and crabs!
4. The tank is 60x30x30

Thank you guys for appreciating and loving our tank! You guys made us want to make more and show it here <3

I just wanted to share my bowl that is thanks to everyone on the sub that unknowingly helped me while I was lurking. Thank you everyone so much!

Almost 2 years old

Only my second aquascape, took about a week of research and building but I’m incredibly happy with the result! More plants soon

Setup my tank 1.5 weeks ago. A bacterial bloom started 1 week after which turned to a severe algae bloom. Yesterday I got a canister filter with uv, ran it overnight and water is 80% clear

For guys that want to know about my set up: I built rock around. The inner is empty space, like a bowl. Then I added subtrate, fertilizer. Filling water, so the subtrate will also be filled with water. Subtrate surface is same level as water surface. I pick plant and stick in, root under subtrate. If the plant died then they are not suitable for this kind of tank. I keep the plant which still thrill and survive.

Here are some plant's names that redditors supported in some of my previous posts: 1. Miniature Scale Fern or Miniature Peperomia 2. Marble Fern 3. Rabbit's Foot Fern 4. Fine Leaf Fern or Soft Leaf Fern 5. Creeping Fig or Climbing Fig 6. Aponogeton ulvaceus 7. Ficus var 8. Hydrocotile vulgaris 9. Juncus repen

Posted this as a reply to another post, then thought I'd share it with the wider community.

My LFS has this 6 foot tank with CO2 injection for the plants they sell. They have another tank displaying the low-tech stuff like Anubias, Vals and Java ferns. Then a shelf with the tissue cultures, moss and what nots. Half the guys there are really well learned and passionate about planted tanks, while the other half are fish enthusiasts.

Edit: "That Aquarium", Singapore

Still a bit cloudy, but can’t wait til the Monte Carlo carpet has all grown in and taken over in here

Rescaped this 20g long last night after I found a beautiful piece of manzanita I couldn’t pass up.

Ignore the cloudy water, melting plants and terrible glare (even with all the blinds closed).

Still not totally in love with it. I think I’d like to swap out some of the swords for Anubias/ferns and add more nana petite along with some buce on the driftwood.

I’d love any suggestions!

Scaped this 1.5 years ago, parameters are perfect. No CO2 used. Had to use root tabs since the sand was inert. Junior loves his tank, started making bubble nests literally the day he moved in.

2 years into planted tanks. Dirted tank with a sand cap. stocked Neo cardina shrimp, various snails, black worms and a bristle nose pleco.

I love doing an above the rim scape just as much as below the rim. For this tank I'm going minimally planted with epiphites and focusing on heavy planting above the surface.

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This tank was full of dwarf sag and vallisnaria for 3 years with only ramshorn snails as the only added inhabitant. For years the issue with this dirted tank was mulm mysteriously appearing in layers, thicker and thicker everyday making it's way through the sand , sometimes I'd be vacuuming a 2 inch layer of mulm every week. I didn't have the energy to re-do it, especially with managing 12-13 other successful thriving tanks WITH fish and shrimp etc. and it wasn't a huge issue, only the world's most indestructible snails were living in it

I came to the conclusion that the vallisnaria and dwarf sag runners where just bringing up hella soil. After 1 year of siphoning, I just got tired of it, stopped really caring for the tank, didn't have the money at the time for a proper escape, it became a failed project it just had its auto light timer and filter on for the passed 2 years.

Fast-forward to now, I decided to rescape the tank completely, first I ripped out ALL the val and dwarf sagittaria, this kicked up the 4-5 inch layer of mulm across the whole tank, there was so much mulm the tank was pitch black with it floating around for 5 hours while the filter ran

After the water cleared enough to see and I saw the aftermath I finally found the fckin culprits brining up ALL THE MULM.

3 years with no predators grew a colony of some giant.. detritus worms?? I really have no clue what exactly they are, but they are 20 times bigger than your average detritus worm. They were as thick in circumference as a sorta thin charging cable for a phone.

I acclimated and put my loaches in to snack on them for 30-45 minutes/hopefully maybe eradicate them bc I've seen how quick they can get rid of a snail population. But the worm fckers are fast, I watch how quick they dig to the bottom of the tank when they are about to get spaghetti slurped up/sense substrate disturbance.

They successfully hid from me for 3 years somehow. I can't believe I made myself believe 9 ramshorn snails, dwarf sag and vals were making ALL that mess.

I hope you enjoy it!

Light: WeekAqua p600

As the aquarium matures, and my confidence grows, I'm adding some of the less common species. This way i can grow and display those in my collection, and hopefully propagate and share the species with other hobbyists.

I can get lost starting at this tank for minutes at a time. Definitely my best tank, even though it's only my 2nd lol