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Hello everyone. Been some time since i visited this site. Old tank got a leak, and put the entire hobby on pause for some years, but getting ready to set up a new tank again finally :) So to the question. Planning a 325 liter tank (85.5 US gallon) tank. Loads of rocks, roots and live plants, with ro...

Thanks. :-) It's actually hollow and fastened to the side with silicone. The entire stone module is filled with sand and oak leaves , so the fish can swim in and out of it as they wish. There's a similar stone module on the opposite side of the tank aswell, but a bit smaller. Also filled with sand a...

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/907/FaNaE3.jpg First picture of the tank. The humble beginnings. The picture is showing the tank to be way too bright. In reality it's pretty dark... substrate as well. At the moment containing 6 different types of cryptocorynes, some java moss and a coup...

Thanks redshark. I was considering clowns for a while, but me and the mrs decided we wanted something smaller in the tank, that we could provide much room for and as natural behaviour as possible, even when fully grown. Regarding plants, it seems there is lots of aponogeton from asia. Most of all in...

Ah i see. Thanks for the insight. Will have to do some reading to see if there is any need for liquid fertilizer at all. I was under the impression that all the plants in my list took atleast some nutrition from the water. Especially java fern and moss since they're not planted, but attached to rock...

Yeah will be aiming to keep plants from asia only. I've been thinking lots of different cryptocorynes, java fern, java moss, a couple other fern types i can't remember the name of, and perhaps even some hygrophilia or aponogeton types. Still have some plant research to do though. As i already have t...

Hello everyone. Just wanted to stop by and introduce myself after registering here. 34 year old guy from norway here. Been in the aquarium hobby for 20 years or so now, mostly keeping cichlids from all over the world. Currently keeping malawi cichlids, but recently me and the mrs decided it's time t...