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Lot of plant can grow without all ' High tech' thing like 3w/gal of light
or nutritious soil. This type tank need a rigorous choice of the plant,
in my case I choose only pure watery plant like camboba furcata and easy paludous plant like anubia.

The watery plant principaly absorb nutriment by the ...

I want to make a ' low-tech' planted tank wiht no nutritious soil, no CO²
system, no incredible light and no paludoous plant that need all this thing.

I dont want to make ripples , because I wanna keep the natural Co².
This technique is for homogenize the water flow and for keep the co².
I can ...

Thank Mark, for your construtive critique.

I choose the botia histrionica because it is the only one I found that fit whit my tank and my projet.

My hardscape is esentially mineral. I got two bigs verticals rocks
( everything relative ). I can put some tiner rock suport to them and form cavern ...

Hi,
I make a heavely planted tank and I wanna put a little group (5-7) of botia histrionica or a colonie of fancy catfish in it .
For choossing , I want some information on the behavior of this loaches:
-is it damage the aquascape
-what is his favorite place to hide
-is it active during the day or ...