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    Cheers @Fish Folk! I have my journals listed in my signature. I have learned a lot as I added more tanks, and read DW’s advice more carefully. The mistakes that I made included going too deep with my soil, going too deep with my cap, and using too much sand. When I setup my next tank, I will use 1-1.5 inches of organic soil, and a thin cap of small gravel like Peace River, perhaps about 0.5 inches. It easier to add substrate than remove it. All my attempts to turbocharge my substrate by going big resulted in anaerobic issues. I have thinned out the caps in some of my tanks, but it is better to get the layering right from the start. I still stab the substrate with skewers in a couple of my older tanks to release gasses. I also prefer the term organic soil aquarium over dirted tank.
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    I combined my food by texture. We had another similar thread.
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    I donate spare duckweed to a local turtle tank.
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    @Patrick_G, maybe you have the right conditions for Caridina shrimp?
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    White Clouds and Neocaridina shrimp are two of my favorites. They are both super-hardy, and can overwinter in deep enough water to go below ice. The shrimp will need cover for best results with fry.
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    Aquarium Journals are the best part of this forum. Document your journey with text, photos, and videos. Share your success and issues, and we can encourage and enjoy the progress. If you started a journal in the wrong sub forum, we can move it. You can also edit to change the title.
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    A gentle way to lower pH is by adding a large piece of wood, and letting it slowly break down, hopefully with shrimp and bottom-feeders grazing.
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    You could probably push your levels up to 30-35% power. We have lots of examples here:
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    Your Nano appears to be installed in the default long mode. Reverse the L bracket for tall mode, and you can increase the height.
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    Can you share a photo? Do you have a decent amount of plants?
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    I get this in a couple of my organic soil tanks where I used too much sand or depth in my cap. Now I just use a thin cap of small gravel. For those established tanks, I will periodically use wooden skewers to pierce the substrate to release gasses.
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    I ran my tubs outdoors without filters last summer. When I moved them indoors, I added Fluval Plant 3.0 Nanos and medium Co-Op sponge filters. With enough plants, I would feel okay about running them outdoors without filters for this summer.
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    Cheers @Isaac M and @Sal. I may have started that thread, but it is a community thread!
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    I stage purchased plants in tanks or buckets, with lights and sponge filters, so that I can take my time planting. I quarantine locally-collected plants in buckets, with lights and sponge filters, so that I can check for invasive species.
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    @Fish Folk, tank journals and Apex logs are my limit of documentation, and I don't think I did a lot of testing when setting up tanks. Organic soil tanks are so full of bacteria and nutrients that cycling is not really an issue. As Diana Walstad says, “I usually let the tank run overnight with the heater and filter hooked up before adding the fish. However, if the tank looks good, sometimes I’ll add fish that evening without problems.” Excerpt From: Diana Louise Walstad. “Ecology of the Planted Aquarium.” Apple Books. https://books.apple.com/us/book/ecology-of-the-planted-aquarium/id661029773
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    I believe you said you didn't completely sort your soil, so you might have some bits of wood emerge. Your shrimp will love any of those small bits of wood from the substrate!
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    Mom, Cory called me a nerd! 😉 I was the hotshot programmer in my kindergarten class. We had a Commodore PET, the precursor to the VIC-20, and then the Commodore 64. I wrote a BASIC program to count up indefinitely. Then I took it to the next level and made it count up by tens. @Patrick_G, I think we might be the last gasp of Generation X. Almost all of my tech knowledge has periodically expired and been replaced, except for TCP/IP, DNS, *nix/BSD terminal commands, and troubleshooting steps. Besides my work WiFi, network, firewall stuff, my personal tech pride goes into building and running this Drupal/CiviCRM site as a volunteer: https://lcyc.info
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    It will provide plenty of light, but it is designed for rimless tanks. There are options, like 3D printing an adapter, or putting it on a glass lid with some felt feet.
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    I enjoy small tanks. I have plants and snails in a 1.25, shrimp in several 2.5 tanks, a betta in a 3.5, plants and snails in additional 3.5 tanks, and a 7.5 with ember tetras plus shrimp. These are all boring organic soil tanks with minimal gravel caps and tons of plants.
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    Thank you, @Anita! I wouldn't be surprised if I found more invasive species than native plants in most of our waterways. As is, whatever I decide to keep will stay in that bucket until I can be sure I didn't bring home Zebra mussels with them.
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    I think the grass is terrestrial, or at-best, semi-aquatic. What is the other plant with the wider leaves?
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    @JH Aquatics, let’s go collecting!
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    I love bloodfin tetras, and they are among my most extroverted fish. Perhaps you just need more of them.
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    @Jungle Fan, I have kept Bacopa caroliniana before, and the color, smell, and leaf structure look very similar. The top bits look a little more curly, which is what caught my eye when digging them out. I looked at many of those links when I was researching zebra mussels, but maybe not all of them. I have heard of white clouds and Neocaridina in some bodies of water here, so seeing plants with extended range doesn’t surprise me.
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