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And has joined us; A direct sunlight planted tank

You could try a background, it's cheap and easy to experiment with different colours. And to change back if you don't like it.

Why 82°F?

How else would you do it?

Looking good. :) Brown algae often appears after about two weeks. It usually dies off as the tank matures whether you do anything to tackle it, or just leave it alone. :)

Rock is certainly not essential. You just need to make the tank look good (to you). You should be able to do that with wood, botanicals and plants.

A purist would use a real human skull. :)

I would wait, it can be quite slow to get established.

The 'grassy stuff' is Hairgrass, Eleocharis.

Well, that's told me.

And perhaps a novice class for people who have never won a contest (top ten or whatever) and maybe a budget class too.

It is Amazon that has taken orders and not given any explanation of the repeated delays. And it's Amazon that says it's not been released even though people have received copies. :(

We had similar in the UK, except it didn't have to be Dutch style of course. :) Local clubs used to do it as well, it was easier to organise the judges' visits at a local level. Regional and national competitions were a bit more complicated to arrange, but clubs and societies usually have one or...

It doesn't look good. :( The idea of taking pre-orders for a book is that you can judge the size of print run needed. And it must have been released if people have received their copies. You expect better service from Amazon.

When I ordered in January, Amazon said June delivery. Then said they didn't know when it would be. Then they said Nov 10th, then Dec 2nd. Now they say it won't be released until Jan 21st. :(

They are cute and interesting. They are also Isopods; if you think Asellus is scary, don't look at giant isopods, eg: Isopod :)

Welcome! :)

Slate and granite are good. Sandstone if it'd hard, some kinds are a bit soft and crumbly. Flint itself is OK, but it's often attached to chalk. If your water is soft and acid the chalk can dissolve and make it hard, which you probably don't want, depending on your fish species. A soak in...

The marketing tells us that Indian Almond Leaves are what the top Betta breeders in Thailand use. I wouldn't be surprised if they use them for the same reason you use what you do; there's a big tree in the local park or woods and they can get them for nothing. :)

I would cover the butterflies from the level of the tank light downwards. Probably with black paper to match the back of the tank.

Coal. It was quite popular in aquascapes years ago, easy to cut and shape too. And not as heavy as a lot of rocks.

If phosphate drops to zero your plants are using it faster than you are supplying it, need to increase the dose. As @Zeus said, holes in the leaves of reinickii is usualy a sign of insufficient CO2 reaching them, probably due to the flow. Reducing the light a bit would reduce their CO2...

Humidity meters (hygrometers) are not very expensive. eg...

Mist leaves a film of water on a surface, not drops. :)

I think that's what happens when people spray instead of misting. :) With a mister you won't get water droplets.

If you like the look of the cube, I would stick with it. If you're not great at design, you need to learn a bit, so you can learn how to scape a cube as easily as how to scape a long tank. There are lots of good cube scapes on the net you can take inspiration from. They can be useful to form an...

Nice wood though. Time to get two more tanks, surely?

Here's an interesting thing some people are doing to save trees from illegal logging. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-31650591/buddhist-monk-ordains-trees-to-help-the-environment

That's a good point. When you buy timber, furniture, sheds, cutting boards or almost anything else wooden it's labelled with the origin and what sustainability scheme it's been approved by.

Also the Daphnia test to check if they release anything toxic.

That's good, I still like the second version though. Certainly better with the extra substrate, amd the slope gives more apparent depth. Have you got Photoshop, or Gimp? You could mock up what they would look like with the carpet grown in.

When you're happy with the arrangement, yes, bed the stones into the substrate a bit more, so they look as if they're growing out of the landscape, not sitting on top of it. Or just scatter a bit more substrate to build it up, if you have some spare. Are you going to plant a carpet? If so, it...

I ilke the second arrangement much more, the lines and flow are better. The right hand rock in the first one is not a very useful shape. The right hand rock in the third one looks as if it's trying to get away from the others. :) Also not so much difference in size in the third scape between the...

Hi Glenda, before a house move I had Echinodorus tenellus growing very well without CO2 injection or liquid carbon, and my tap water was 17DH, not much different to yours. I used to take a handful out once a week. Sadly I don't have it now, or I could have sent you some. :) That was a cherry...

You're good at making stuff, Marcel, why not give it a try? I might try something like that if I can find the space. It won't look as nicely constructed and finished, because of the budget, but when the plants grow you won't be able to see the imperfections. :)

And if you put some Daphnia in with it, you will find out if it releases anything toxic.

For sticking wood to slate there might not be enough contact area for superglue. Silicone or hot-melt glue would fill the gaps a bit and get a better grip on the wood.

Could be Mopani roots?

You've got it, it's Manzanita. :)

Water and a scrubbing brush should be all you need. If you want to check they are still shrimp-safe after that, put them in a bucket of water with some daphnia or cyclops for a few days. If they have picked up anything that will kill shrimps it's almost certain to kill daphnia too.

Good luck with the op. I'll send you some virtual grapes. :)