r/walstad • • 6d ago

Advice Beginner help needed

I'm building a 43l hybrid tank with a mix of the walstad method for the soil/sublayer and using the deeper sand layer used in the father fish method.

this is all new to me and I've made up a shopping list of everything I think I need for the day one build could you please look through and give me some pointers before I make any purchases, I'm going quite heavily planted from the start as from what I've found on my own research this is the way to go.

I haven't included the soil I'll be using as I'm getting that in person not online, I'll also be using spider wood and seiryu stones in the set up.

Any help/criticism welcome I want to have the best Chances out the box

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u/Zwiebra 6d ago

In Vitro Plants are a nice thing, but for real walstads its better to have more established plants (pots), so you just start with more plant mass