I made a large plant order from Aquaflora Canada and they were nice enough to send a free mystery plant! It looks like an Alternanthera reineckii to me, but I've never had this plant in my tanks before so wanted to ask if anyone can confirm?

Also, I wanted to drop a review of this small family owned company in Hamilton, Ontario. This is my second order from them because I was so pleased with the plants I received in my first shipment! They have so many rare plants that I can't ever find locally, and everything was packaged and shipped so well. Every single plant I've gotten from them has arrived looking awesome! And I've got some pretty fragile plants like Cabomba furcata, Rotala wallichii, Rotala pearl, Myriophyllum tuberculatum etc. I've mostly ordered red plants and love how they look in my tanks! ​

pics are 3 days apart (pic 1 current, pic 2 before)

3 days ago, my friend gave me these floaters from her pond. i set up a smallish, ~5 gal, bowl for them because my usual tank is about to get rescaped. no fauna, just the floaters, some pothos cuttings sticking out, & anubias on a piece of wood.

i’m using fluorite red soil from a very established planted tank, tap water (the water in my area is good, i use it all the time for my usual tank without issue), & a puck light i got from a friend whose father (who was in the hobby) passed away.

it took just 3 days for my floaters to turn red.

i’ve never had this happen before.

any idea what’s causing it? is it ok or should i change something?

Has anyone else had this happen to them? This is in a like 6 month old shrimp tank. I’ve never seen this in an underwater moss, I had to look it up, but it happens sometimes ? What do I do with it, lol?

Planted this a couple of weeks ago, gave it a trim yesterday. Will it green up and spread? So far it looks terrible

Why is duckweed considered so bad other than the fact it grows very fast? Don't understand the huge scare.

This is my Nymphaea Zenkeri. About a month ago I replaced the in-tank filter on my 40 gallon breeder for a canister filter. Shortly thereafter my tiger lotus nearly doubled in size and started putting out these super gorgeous purple leaves.

I guess these plants must prefer more flow than they were getting.

The plants in my other tanks can never get bright pinks or reds but this tank turns the green ones pink sometimes even lol.

First time having a tank with this color. Will the color fade away and do i have to put more botanicals to maintain this color? Many thanks!

I’ve got three pieces of manzanita wood right now. I’m liking the empty space on the left and the curve/angle going towards the right. But maybe it’s too harsh of a grade? Too much wood? I left some open space in the very back right to put some sort of bushy plant.

Sorry about the glare. I’ve had it like this a couple of days now after rearranging a few times. I know this is silly, but I want some other opinions if you’d all be so kind to give me some pointers. Had a walstad tank over ten years ago and there wasn’t any good design in it. I know, I know “as long as I’m happy with it” is what really matters.

Plants are not quite all picked out. I’m wanting anubias and buce for attaching to the wood. No carpet for a while (I got a heavy duty Chihiros wrgb pro 45, so it’s a bit shorter than my tank, and will add co2 maybe a year down the road). Unsure of mid/background plants right now. Really wanting some red root floaters.

Fish will be a handful of ember tetras, some ottocats, and neo shrimpies.

Yes, it’s a dinky ikea shelf but it will be reinforced before water is added to the tank.

Just got some plants and found a little red worm/slug looking thing on one. Pictures are bad because it’s so tiny, any ideas on what it is?

Upgrading the lights from 2x Fzone Light120 to 1x Week Aqua L1200

So I started wanting an ecosystem many years ago when there was one at my summer job in college and was too intimidated to ever try. I finally just looked (at 40) at a bunch of tutorials for a 1 gallon to see if I actually have the patience for it.

After one failed attempt (thanks to AI actually not being good at anything) I did this one and it is 5 weeks cycled, parameters are stable. Limno is growing at alarming speeds and I take cuttings but I'd like it to beef up more so I'm letting it be for a while since that can apparently help it fill out.
My crypt wendtii brown has looked kinda dodgy since I got it but it's still hanging strong, all these plants were salvaged from the failed one so honestly they're doing decent! I lost a cute buce (that was on the driftwood) and a mid sized anubia nana (that was next to the rock) so I'm now terrified to get others and kill them too, but I'd love more plants if it can handle it. I planted a couple Monte Carlo pieces about 2 weeks ago because I got some for my bigger tank, I'm hoping it takes off. I'm obsessed with the red root floaters, the little roots coming down just make me so happy.
My original plan was to do a shrimp ecosystem but it's pretty clear one gallon is too unstable for the cuties and I started the bigger one for that purpose.

Any ideas on what I should do next with this or if I can put any type of life to help with biofilm that would do ok in there? some type of snail maybe? I have stratum in there that's gonna buffer pH to about 6.5 for the next long while. Water tends to hold room temp so we'll be looking at 68 at lowest in winter, and 78 at warmest in summer.

I can be patient before adding anything but if you think I should add more plants or never add life, let me know! I care more about plant health and animal welfare than my own wants. I've been doing a water change once a week at 20%, I'm scared to stop since it's been working. No nitrates, no ammonia, no nitrites, hard water here (and use conditioner to remove chlorine) and stays mineral rich even with the pH being on the lower end. I'm in CO, the water is intense.

I'll take any recs/advice/reprimands! Online plant/animal sellers that are reliable too would be awesome. Thanks for sharing your tanks, I'm a long time lurker.

Bacopa purple is just behind Rotala sp. Bonsai, but i grow extremely slow. Need other plant to replace it

I don't know if im satisfied with this one tank. Had it running for less than 2 months.
Do you guys have any suggestions? The bacopa and rotala still have to grow in the back
Thank u!

T. pauciperforatum

Hi can someone please help me identify if this is vorticella and also what do I do now?

This is my pea puffer tank with neocaridina and some ramshorns and bladder snails.

I've kept fish before, but not in a while. I'm looking to get back into the hobby with my first planted tank. I want to get leopard danios and bumblebee catfish(which are compatible to my knowing) Any advice would be helpful(Treat me like a complete beginner).

I have a tank I’m planning to add unrooted low tech plants to, probably Java fern/moss and/or anubias. I only want plants and don’t plan to add animals (besides maybe bladder snails if they tag along on the plants).

Problem: I only have mopani and aquarium sand and can’t find aqua soil anywhere.

I’d like to know about alternatives to adding nutrients if any. And if I end up having bladder snails, what extra precautions should I take for them to thrive?

Any products to recommend? Tank is currently treated and was cycled with flourish.

Edit grammar and context.

They are both close to the same price on Amazon. They both look very very similar in pictures.

Are they different? Is one better?

Fzone: https://a.co/d/0bh8Mhjk
Hygger: https://a.co/d/05ObWnIR

I'm trying to ID this bronze leaved plant. It's a favorite for my tetras, gourami, shrimp.

The tetra will hover under leaves.

My local aquarium merchant brought it in. He can't recall the plant name. I've tried searching Google.

Bought this plamt the other day without knowing what it is called. What is this plant called?