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looks nice. cant wait to see when it's flooded & with fish in it. By the way... your cat is so cute.

Looks great! Like advice from UBroke...trim it before adding water and make sure the roots are rooted nicely. I had HC planted on my Fluval Flora (7.9 gal) using dry start. HC grew lushly, green & looked very healthy. After 3 weeks..I then added water, and that when the problem started. The HC started to uproot and died. My mistake were... - didn't trim it when adding the water - didn't use the proper substrate (diameter was too big for HC's root) - didn't have enough substrate (it's not deep enough) Some people said that 3 weeks are still too short, I should've waited for another more weeks before adding water. but of well... Good luck with your HC...and I'm looking forward to see more pictures & tips from what you've experienced.

very nice.

congrats. I guess we'll see some pictures sometime.

Yes, scheduled for November at the Pisces Pets Emporium. I will announced it here when it is firmed up. Did I miss this? How's the seminar?

Great looking tank. How did you do that?? and How do you maintain it? very nice! Thanks for sharing.

I'm the fan as well ..enjoy watching it. I wish I have one.

Nice pictures.

My female betta is such a drama queen betta This is the second time she 'played' dead with me. I also noticed it happened when I didn't pay attention to her. I do a regular feeding & water changes. But there were times when I just too busy and didn't spend time with her...and when I realized, I found her already lying looking dead and made me panic thinking she's gonna die. She did that for hours, didn't move and acting dead. After giving TLC for hour(s) she' recovers and swim actively & happy. I am not sure whether she just wants my attention or she's carrying eggs. Does your beta do the same when carrying eggs?

Thank you for sharing. This motivates me again to work on my tank Nice! I like the rocks too. Update Dec 14: and once again my attempt to set up a nature aquarium failed . I guess from now on I'm just gonna enjoy it from the picture and your post.

Thank you all for the suggestions. I did try pushing the HC down and as vallisneria suggested..added the water very..very..very slowly. After 1 week, the HC looks good, at least the HC don't get uprooted so far .. The only problem now is ..I start seeing some algae on the rocks as well as on the HC. Boy..I just want to have a carpet plant, the algae should not be included

the depth is about 2-2.5 inches not sure about the thickness yet. I may post some pic later.

I have planted HC (dry start) for more than 3 weeks. The HC looks good..lush & green and I thought it's time to fill the tank with water. I then poured the water in..slowly & carefully. I am a bit disappointed because few bunches of HC started to uproot . I tried to plant them in..but the HC started to spread out. I decided to stop filling the tank so that the rest of the plants won't be uprooted. Should I take the water out and add more soils and re-planting? Personally..I don't really wanna do this because more works & I'm afraid that this will uproot more HC. But I guess if there is no other option, I have to do this. The tank now has probably 20% of water. Any suggestion to prevent the uprooting? thanks for your help.

@cdot: i can't wait to see the ADA. I have heard so much buzz on it...so my expectation is now even higher LOL.

any plan to do it in Calgary?

The plant on Edge didn't grow as I expected and too much algae. I accidentally damaged the tank when tried to clean and wash it. The glass hit the sink and cracked. So that's pretty much the end of Edge's life.

my first set up on Fluval Edge was failed..it didn't turn out as I expected. I'm now trying again on Fluval Flora. I just finished planting the HC..again. Hopefully I can post some pictures sometime.

Welcome to AA forum. I like this forum. I found people in here is very helpful and resourceful. Btw.. I'm very interested in getting to know more about Nature Aquarium concepts/methods. Are you going to have any seminar on this topic? when and where?

Thanks for the info. That give me a reason why I may need to take the background out. I want the tank can be seen in all angles..but I'll see if I can take the background out without leaving the adhesive or mark on the glass. What kind of plants you have in there?

Hi...I'm in the process of setting up Fluval Flora tank. Anyone here has Flora? Would you mind sharing a picture? Any tips before I do the works? thanks.

Thanks Tbarabash. I never get the update..but then it's probably time to let go the Edge. 10 days ago..the Edge gone for good On the bright note, I'm now setting up a new Flora. We'll see how it turns out

Hard Core!!! That's awesome :thumbs:

@jvision: yeah..I probably should. @val: I contacted the rep today and asked if they sell the part...we'll see what happen. Hopefully I'll get the update this week.

The image I was trying to post here is still too big even after I resized it. Apparently.. I only have 44kb left out of the 1 MB images I can upload here

oh no!!! I can't breath but I keep scrolling the pictures. Awesome aquariums!! I wish I have one like that Thank you for posting it here.