r/Planted_tanks_India

Don't Hate Me I tried 😉👍🏻

I’ve realised the hobby becomes expensive when you have to keep upgrading because the LFS tried selling you stuff. 🤷‍♀️ I trust this subs opinions more. 😎

Your Most preferred brand of:
- Aquasoil / Sand / Dirt
- HoB / Sponge Filters
- Fertilisers
- Lights
- Heater
- Fish Food
- Water Test Kit

Going to buy my 2nd tank tomorrow! 🤸‍♀️

PS - anyone from Mumbai can recommend shops to buy 60-80 litre tanks? My usual shop doesn’t have stock.

Hoping to learn from your setup and fix my mistakes!

Do lemme know if you have a heater or not!

Thanks :)

Hi everyone, this is my indoor Terracotta Pond setup. It started off as an experiment as I wanted to explore how I could use terracotta containers for aquascaping. Always wanted to have a bit of nature in my office so I ended up designing this. Learnt a lot about small setups along the way as I am more used to larger outdoor pond setups. Yet to add some floating plants to it to bring out the movement of the water because of the small waterfall and also to further filter the water. Hope you enjoy it and try it out yourselves...

Thoughts or advice

Just bought two fish- shopkeeper said they’re flowerhorn parrots. What do you guys think? Both are around 2.5 inches right now.

Are these actually flowerhorns that will develop a kok, or something else?

So as a follow-up to this post - https://www.reddit.com/r/Planted\_tanks\_India/s/QNxHA97tvm, I managed to get a tank of 2 ft X 1 ft x 1 ft, along with aqua soil, sand, a bluepet filter, a 16W LED light and some plants.

Its been around 4 days and the plants are slowly growing. I keep the light switched ON for around 7 hours. I had some 3 very small snails, looks like pest snails, but their numbers is upto 10 now. They do seem to feed on the bit of algae that is appearing.

I had the following queries;

1. I plan to buy a water test kit, especially to check on Ammonia. Any experience with Bionix?

2. Should I buy Beneficial bacteria? Any recommendations?

3. Any other tips to check if the tank is cycled?

I am not looking to add any fish for now, as I want to focus on plant growth. I may get some cherry red shrimp though.

Thank you.

My tank is now a week old. I have added more montecarlo and more background plants are on the way. Even after doing more than 50% water changes a day my ammonia is still 1ppm-1.5ppm.
Do I still do 50% water changes everyday or every other day from this week on.

I was planning to do a river pond for my betta fish,
Also, i was planning to add shrimps to the tank as the tank looks best in the tanning of almond leaves.

So this is my planted tank, It's been like 3 weeks since I planted it and it still isn't blooming yet,my plants are melting and the new leaves growth is very thin.Ive added diy CO2 system,filter, light (wrgb: by bluepet(nano S4 16W) ,I keep the fixed lighting hours and have done 3 water changes so far(weekly) ,but it still doesn't feel ready to put livestock in it,(The video was after I siphoned out the ,what I suppose was hair algae ,and all the dead melting leaves),also my is My hygrophila difformis shooting those roots everywhere in the tank,like what I saw online,they don't root so much on the stems,Is it normal for Limnophila Hippuridiodes and rotala to completely shed leaves before growing new ones? ,like my rotala has started getting the aquatic leaves but Limnophila still doesn't look ready,what might be the issues,I think I'll be getting my fish in a week or so.

Here's a close up of my shrimp fanning her eggs :)

Hi guys, I'm about to set up a 1.5 ft planted tank with low to mid tech plants and diy co2 I'm using a well balanced dirted substrate and already bought a sobo 606h HOB filter with good quality filter media but having trouble deciding which light to choose LFS is suggesting me to use Bluepet br 40 (I'm using br 50 pic as reference),that one costs around 960 and has 3 modes and 13 watt and it's underpowered,I'm considering 2 neo helios s3 pro plus (1700) or 2 bluepet s4 nano 10 watt (1100). Lfs and some people saying that neo helios isn't worth it and doesn't grow plants well also the shop gives 1 year replacment warrenty if bought from him what should I do my budget is tight can't extend it much also the bluepet br 40 one have wierd colour you can see in YouTube only one guy reviewed it well.

Thanks.

Hi all, I am selling my 18 length x 12 width x 15 height inch planted aquarium, which was started in Jan 2026.

It has

1. 55 liter 5 mm glass tank
2. Sunsun small HOB with bio media
3. Tech & Aqua, made in India 45 watt RGB light
4. One timer for lights
5. Driftwood with 4-5 species of Anubias & Java fern
6. All plants, river sand and garden soil as substrate

And I can also add a heater for winters, and an aquarium fan.

Price: Total cost of mine Rs 6100-7000
Selling: Rs 2500 for all items above and,
Rs 2000 without light and timer.

Pick up from my flat in Jagatpura, Jaipur 302017

Plus if you want you can even take cuttings from my other 2 tanks, one is a 80 liter 2 feet high-tech and 2nd is nano 35 liter tank.

Selling as I want to set up a big tank.

The tank is in night mode