Ordered a 9L bag of Aquasoil Amazonia on Amazon (lol) and the bag that came is different than any other bag of Amazonia I've seen. What I'm afraid of is apparently there are counterfeit bags sold out of China and a search revealed that ADA may have even changed their bag design because of it...

My new tank 5 feet X 1.5 feet X 1.5 feet is ready. Did my water testing, no leaks. My plans for aquascaping is an area of approx 2.0 feet X 1.5 feet with complete grass and very small carpet plants, followed by a sand only area of approx 1.0 feet X 1.5 feet followed by another area of 2.0 feet...

So Im on the verge of changing out my substrate in a couple tanks from blasting sand to ADA AS. Got a couple of questions... The tanks I will be changing are a 75 gal, a 29 and a 20. All high light, co2, EI, etc, and I do have a tendency to uproot/move things around a lot. I understand AS...

My husband set up his Fluval EBI with ADA Aquasoil instead of the Fluval Stratum. Stock filter, lighting, and no heater. We let some anubias nana petite float in the water overnight and when we woke up this morning the leaves on the anubias looked burned. The ammonia test was at least 8 ppm...

Okay so I've been swayed to get the AdA soil (thanks everyone for the help!) and I will be purchasing the new ada amazonia soon but I've read that it lowers your water GH, is that true? My gh is already pretty low. Can anyone also tell me what it will do to my water parameter? I want to know if...

12 NEW Bags of Red Sea Flora Base for $300 firm. Getting out of the hobby. Cash only payment at pickup in San Francisco at 12pm-1pm weekdays. I will NOT break up the set.

will ada soil cycle while in process of doing the dry start method?

My Journey From Reef to Planted... For the better part of the past twenty years, I've kept reef tanks, mostly SPS. As did many, I got my start in aquaria with freshwater tanks. In my case it was 55 gallon tanks with Oscars and Jack Dempsys in my bedroom some 40 years ago. While I was certainly...

Hi. So by bf and I want to start a emersed plant farm :biggrin: We are currently growing HC, E. Belem, M. Minuta, & Glosso in our 12G long tank right now with very decent growth rate using Fluval Shrimp Stratum at the top layer and Eco-complete at the bottom layer with Osmocote Plus tabs. We...