Basics of fresh water planted aquarium

Create a beautiful stunning planted aquarium just maintaining 4 key basic factors, GOOD WATER QUALITY,GOOD LIGHTING,GOOD NUTRITION and QUALITY SUBSTRATE. But which comes 1st?

Aquascaping with Java fern , Anubias , Java moss ,Crypto , Bucephalandra as main plants

A freshwater planted aquarium is a unique and natural aquatic ecosystem you can create for your home or office. Planted or natural aquariums contain specially selected aquatic plants and fish to closely replicate beautiful underwater environments found in nature.

It is no only that your aquarium will have more natural look, but you will also find that your fish behave in a more natural manner. At this point we are going to assume that you already have the basics on keeping tropical fish and are adapt to the basics of maintaining an aquarium. What we intend to do here is fill in the blanks to give you the best start to growing beautiful plants for that aquarium.

Background color and light variation enhance the beauty in multi fold

There are 4 Keys To Success...

Quality Substrate, Good Lighting, Good Nutrition, Water Quality But, which one comes 1st as essential & which is the last ?

Let me arrange it as per the priority for successful plantation-

1st – Good Water Quality (Cristal Clean water with proper PH, dKH, Temp & low good circulation)

2nd – Good Lighting (Lighting with proper lumen & wavelength as per plants requirement)

3rd – Good Nutrition (Co2 & fertilizer as per the plants need)

4th – Quality Substrate (Substrate as per nature of plants to anchor and free root grow)

If we can fulfill 1st three requirements we will get success for 75% of cases or better to say 85% of cases is some scenario .

Planted tank does not always mean a high cost involvement. We can achieve great planted tank in low cost which can amazed us and with this concept we divided planted tank in two categories –

1-Low tech planted tank : Low cost, Low light, Low co2 & fertilizer demands & plant should select accordingly.

2-High tech planted tank: High cost as different kind of plants used to create excellent view and their requirements are also different.

However, the first thing to start of a planted tank & to get success is the proper planning.