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Skip to the actual journal here. I'm known here for high tech, high nutrient, inert substrate scapes -- but I also love NO tech, rich substrate scapes, too! This thread is three-sided: To act as a journal for my new No-Tech bowl scape, and To act as a discussion board for no/low tech bowl...

I picked up a UNS 45T secondhand and decided to set up a high tech, NA-inspired triangular layout. Aiming to keep this relatively low maintenance. For the cabinet, I ordered a SUNDSO cabinet from IKEA. It's a stylish black indoor-outdoor cabinet made of galvanized steel but extremely flimsy...

If anything, this tank is an utilitarian aquarium. This is not an aquascape, in the sense that I want to artistically impress on you a feeling. Its main utility is for me to grow plants and relax in front of it. Hope you also find reading this journal useful for you. The idea behind this tank...

Version 1: Version 2: After finally buying our first house, I was able to live out my dreams of installing a large high-tech rimless aquarium. It has: RO-water lines in (one large one for water adding from the basement storage, one small one for the top-off reservoir and float valve) with...

Hi all, loving the journal threads the most, so maybe it’s nice to share my own stuff. It’s way out of my comfort zone, but hey, learning is all about doing stuff outside it, so here it goes! People like pictures, so this is my display tank this morning. Some specs: non CO2 injected, using...

Hello all, with the summer and vacation time behind me, it's time to finally time to dust off the old equipment and start looking for what is still need. I have been thinking about starting a planted tank for a time now. While I have been doing some reading and got some clarifications from...