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Your aquarium has a ton of beautiful plants that help keep the water clean and create a gorgeous aquascape. While plants are a great way to add natural beauty and provide shelter for your fish, they a… read more

Live aquarium plants, like all organisms, need nutrients to survive. The nutrients that aquarium plants require can be divided into macronutrients and micronutrients. MACRONUTRIENTS. Macronutrients… read more

Aquarium plants need light. They use it to photosynthesize, creating their own energy to grow and propagate. Without a sufficient level of light, plants cannot photosynthesize and will wilt… read more

This is Part 2 of a two-part guide to Sword Plants (Echinodorus) for planted aquariums. If you haven’t read it yet, Part 1 lays the groundwork—what swords are, where they come from, how th… read more

While there are many varieties of aquatic plants, including stem plants,  floating plants, mosses or those that need gravel to flourish and those - like Anubias - that don’t, we s… read more

The answer to this question is almost always a resounding YES. In fact, while there may be a very few cases where having aquatic plants would make little or no sense - e.g. aquariums housing plant ea… read more