How to Make Aquarium Plants Thrive When Nothing Seems to Work
# How to Make Aquarium Plants Thrive When Nothing Seems to Work You’ve followed the guides. You’ve bought the expensive substrate, installed the CO2 system, and your lighting schedule is…
Pothos in an Aquarium and the Filter Hack That Actually Cleans Your Water
# Pothos in an Aquarium and the Filter Hack That Actually Cleans Your Water If you’ve been fighting nitrates in your fish tank and getting nowhere with water changes, there’s…
How to Clean Algae Off Aquarium Plants Without Killing the Plant
# How to Clean Algae Off Aquarium Plants Without Killing the Plant Three months after setting up my first planted tank, I watched in horror as my carefully chosen Cryptocoryne…
Guppy Planted Aquarium and the Low Maintenance Setup That Runs Itself
# Guppy Planted Aquarium and the Low Maintenance Setup That Runs Itself Setting up a planted guppy tank that practically maintains itself sounds too good to be true, but it’s…
How to Clean Aquarium Plants Before Adding Them to Your Tank
# How to Clean Aquarium Plants Before Adding Them to Your Tank When I started teaching biology, I thought the hardest part would be explaining cellular respiration to thirteen year…
Guppy Planted Aquarium and the Low Maintenance Setup That Runs Itself
# Guppy Planted Aquarium and the Low Maintenance Setup That Runs Itself Setting up a guppy tank shouldn’t require constant intervention, expensive equipment, or a degree in aquatic chemistry. After…
Planted Aquarium Trimming and When to Cut Back vs Let Things Fill In
# Planted Aquarium Trimming and When to Cut Back vs Let Things Fill In Getting your first proper planted tank growing well is genuinely exciting. You’ve got the light working,…
Cleaning Aquarium Plants With Bleach Dips and Getting the Concentration Right
# Cleaning Aquarium Plants With Bleach Dips and Getting the Concentration Right You can lose an entire tank of fish to a single contaminated plant. It’s happened to me, it’s…
How to Take Care of Aquarium Plants in a Low Tech Tank
# How to Take Care of Aquarium Plants in a Low Tech Tank When I started keeping planted tanks, I made the classic mistake of thinking that more equipment meant…
Aquarium Plant Turning Brown and What Colour Changes Actually Mean
# Aquarium Plant Turning Brown and What Colour Changes Actually Mean When your carefully selected aquarium plants start turning brown, it feels like watching a slow-motion disaster unfold. One day…
How to Trim Aquarium Plants Without Ruining Your Layout
# How to Trim Aquarium Plants Without Ruining Your Layout Trimming aquarium plants is one of those things that sounds straightforward until you’re standing there with scissors, staring at a…
Aquarium Plant Problems Chart and How to Diagnose What’s Going Wrong
# Aquarium Plant Problems Chart and How to Diagnose What’s Going Wrong When your aquarium plants start looking rough—yellowing, holes in leaves, black edges, or just that generally unhappy look—it’s…
Why Are My Aquarium Plants Dying and the Five Mistakes You’re Probably Making
# Why Are My Aquarium Plants Dying and the Five Mistakes You’re Probably Making I’ve seen this question asked more times than I can count on aquarium forums, and I’ve…
Tropica Premium Nutrition and the European Dosing System That Actually Works
# Tropica Premium Nutrition and the European Dosing System That Actually Works I’ll admit it straight off: I spent three months trying to figure out why my plants kept melting…
Melting Aquarium Plants and Why New Plants Fall Apart Before They Grow Back
# Melting Aquarium Plants and Why New Plants Autumn Apart Before They Grow Back You’ve just spent twenty pounds on what looked like perfect aquarium plants. You carefully planted them…
Aquarium Plant Fertiliser Dosing Schedules and Why Following the Bottle Gets It Wrong
# Aquarium Plant Fertiliser Dosing Schedules and Why Following the Bottle Gets It Wrong I spent my first year as a planted tank keeper religiously following bottle instructions. Half a…
Tropica Premium Nutrition and the European Dosing System That Actually Works
# Tropica Premium Nutrition and the European Dosing System That Actually Works I’ve been dosing Tropica Premium Nutrition for three years now, and it’s the first liquid fertiliser that made…
How to Care for Aquarium Plants Without Turning It Into a Second Job
# How to Care for Aquarium Plants Without Turning It Into a Second Job Most people get into planted tanks because they want something beautiful and peaceful, not because they…
Crypts and the Low Maintenance Root Feeders That Hate Being Moved
# Crypts and the Low Maintenance Root Feeders That Hate Being Moved I learned about crypt melt the hard way. Three weeks into keeping my first planted tank, I decided…
The Complete Guide to Cleaning and Maintaining Aquarium Plants
# The Complete Guide to Cleaning and Maintaining Aquarium Plants > **TL;DR: Start Here** > > **Three foundational steps:** First, establish a proper trimming routine using clean, sharp scissors to…
Aquarium Plant Maintenance Schedule and What Weekly Care Looks Like
Establishing a planted tank is one thing. Maintaining that tank is something else entirely. More often than not the tanks that stay stable long term have a predictable weekly maintenance…
How to Remove Dead Leaves From Aquarium Plants Without Making a Mess
It’s easy to look at those brown or yellow leaves decorating your aquarium plants and decide to leave them be for now. After all, there’s no need to stress your…
How to Keep Live Plants in an Aquarium Looking Good Long Term
You spend ages getting your planted tank looking exactly how you want it too. Your carpet plants are spreading into the open areas, your stem plants are growing vibrant red…
Water Changes in a Planted Aquarium and How Often You Actually Need Them
Arguably no topic causes more debate and argument amongst aquarists than water changes in planted aquariums. One website will tell you to change 50% every week, another that you never…
Marine Refugium Plants and How a Separate Growing Chamber Cleans Your Water
Marine Refugium Plants: How a Separate Growing Chamber Cleans Your Water The first time I actually watched my refugium working I was astounded by how effective it was. This thing…