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…
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…
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…
Snail Free Aquarium Plants and How to Quarantine New Arrivals Properly
# Snail Free Aquarium Plants and How to Quarantine New Arrivals Properly There’s nothing quite like the sinking feeling of spotting tiny snails crawling across your carefully planned aquascape two…
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…
Aquarium Plant Supplements and Whether Extra Additives Are Worth the Money
Walk into any aquarium shop and you’ll be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled into a chemistry lab’s marketing department. Bottles upon bottles of every imaginable supplement promising faster growth, healthier…
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…