sw to planted

I friend gave me a good, working Rena XP3 filter. It's been used on a salt water aquarium and has media in the three trays. A guy at the LFS told me to just run/test the filter with the input/output hoses in a bucket of fresh water and rinse and run through for about 30 minutes or so, maybe...

Hi new guy here, Bri the new guy. Just thougt Id introduce my self and ask some of you gurus if you had any good advise for a reefer setting up a planted tank. All advise is appreciated. Any helpful tips, must have equipment, hard learned lessons of the trade. Quick background, I have had FW...

I'm fairly new to planted tanks, I do work in a greenhouse though so I know the basics. I have a 10 gallon tank with a crap load of java moss growing in a ball taking up most of the tank, I'm going try to make a moss wall and tie some to some driftwood and see how that looks, I have two 10 want...