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The theme for this month's contest is: Best Aquarium Closeup (Macro) For clarity - Take a closeup picture or video of anything in your aquarium. The rules: Submissions are allowed between October 1 and October 15. Voting will start on October 15 at 12:01 am Eastern time. Voting will end on October 31 at 11:30 pm Eastern time. Be as creative as you like. The prize: A $25 store credit from BurrAqua thanks to @Burr740! Please post your pictures in this thread starting now. Good luck!

THE official "what did you do to your tank(s) today" thread! Let's keep it real by sharing our daily routine. Post daily if you want. It's nice to check in with fellow aquatic gardeners.

Main idea/inspiration: Since my main 150p aquarium is in our front room and is the first thing we and our guests see, I can't afford to experiment much with it. I also spent like $600 on aquasoil to fill it, so I thought I'd like to try something different. This tank will be 100% BDBS substrate, no fertilized substrate. No root tabs (yet), no aquasoil. Only water column fertilization, to challenge myself to see whether I can grow plants well without aquasoil or not! Inspired by the @Burr740...

Happy Sunday all! I want to share with you an exciting and fun update to ScapeCrunch called "Community Achievements". Similar to Reddit's Community Achievements, it's a system that provides a small and fun reward for helping our community in different ways. Why? The main and best feature that ScapeCrunch will ever have is an active community of people sharing knowledge and support. Full stop. Therefore, active posting by members is the fuel for our community and anything that may...

I have always liked Rotala florida as plant due to its strongly colored leaves, but realized that I haven't actually aquascaped much with it - meaning to integrate it as part of a layout and not just growing a bunch of it in farm/collector style tank. Using plants in a layout in tighter bunches, and in competition with surrounding plants/hardscape is much harder than growing it farm style in a single patch - it also means be able to shape/trim the bushes to match the overall curves of the...

Hello all, I’ve been mentioning recently that I’m going to be restarting my tank and now that I’ve got what I need, let’s get this going. To start, as the title indicates, this is going to be a Mineralized Top Soil tank. I’ve mineralized about half a bag of Black Kow Top Soil that I happened to have in the garage and completely forgot about. I was hestitant to use it as the company is famous for their manure compost, but some reading around suggested otherwise for this particular product...

Version 1: Version 2: After finally buying our first house, I was able to live out my dreams of installing a large high-tech rimless aquarium. It has: RO-water lines in (one large one for water adding from the basement storage, one small one for the top-off reservoir and float valve) with leak prevention and redundancy. A drain-out in the wall behind the stand for easy water changes. A custom built ADA-style plywood stand stand. Skylight Hyperspot FM lights above. A GHL Aquarium Computer...

Hello all, my name is Mike and I just found this site by accident. I think @gjcarew told me @GreggZ had moved here but some how I failed to remember; so I'm glad I found this site today. I am a fan, as you can tell, of GreggZ. He taught me just about everything I know (through his journal on that other site) and I was also banned over a 0dKH discussion :oops:. So you know, I kind of feel close to the guy. Joking aside, I was able to go from this. To this within a short period of time...