Semi planted tank can masuk?   

Some japanese water purification.. actually its just baked zeolite. Useless wan.... took down that tank liao.

The betta died

planted tank only??or
you plan to put any livestock(fish,shrimp,snail etc) inside??
for wood normally people boil it to get rid off the tannins and
for rock it doesn't need to be boil BUT
it might change your water PH(alkaline or acidic) which is depend
on what kind of livestock you plan to put inside the tank

some people do suggest that you can kill the algae/moss by soaking it in chlorine mix water OR
you can also just let it dry under hot sunny day for couple of days OR
you can baked them in the oven
and i'm not sure which are more effective because i personally never tried it

fall3n: i am with sniper on his thinking. yellowing of water is likely the tannin... it will take a few weeks to months depending on the wood size. my 2 pcs of medium size wood took 2 months to clear. fishes doesn't seem bothered with it. if its already in the tank, leave it as it is an keep your water change schedule once a week until its cleared.

unless ur fishes are showing signs of sickness, i wouldn't do anything more to the naturally occurring things.

danny: you need to know why we clean or soak the rocks in the first place. cleaning is to get rid of any foreign items that may pollute your tank.
soaking is to determine if the rock is suitable underwater. some rocks reacts to bleach. this means the rock will make your water with high GH/KH (very hard water) which is not so good for some plants/fishes. personally, my java ferns are growing better after i took out some rocks which are making water very hard (and throwing off my ph reading). with hard water, the leaves are smaller as i observed. i could be wrong because i did a few other things like light change to led etc.

hope above helps. cheers.

the other 2 plants i'm not so sure, but glosso, you need high lighting, as well as frequent water changing if you decide not to use co2. they will still grow upwards though.

danny, my tank also has amazonia inside mixed with normal soil. so far no change of ph levels. the problem with some rocks that reacts to water that it will slowly increase your ph. thats the reason why some ppl drop a few drops of bleach to see if it sizzles. if it reacts/sizzles, then it will change your water ph in the long run (maybe a few days depends on the amount of rocks).

i found out my lfs has those light yellow gravel which i cover on top of amazonia that changed my water ph. at first i thought it was the rocks that i brought back from seaside. after doing the bleach test only i found the culprit.

if you wanna do planted tank, it's best not to get curved tank, just get the flat one, it will look nicer, speaking from experience.

just get the bleach from 99 speed mart, RM2 something only. don't assume the rocks you buy from aquarium are all safe for use. just bleach them then wash with running water will do. however, ryu stone should be fine.

if your amazonia is less than 6 months old, no ferts required. usually after 6 mths only it will used up most of it nutrients. this is based on my own findings when i first started.

this is general guideline, it will also depend on the plants and amount of soil you have put in.

Its this. not sure if enough

No I'm just dosing excel.  Then I found out the lamp is 13W not 15W. Probably not enough light. Now then I found out that I should do EI dosing as well.

new in planted aquarium.
feel free to give any comment.

Thank you for your reply. I'm noob here, what is LFS?

Just a quick update on my office tank.

Updated it to be as low maintenance as possible.

- Only 2 types of anubias and floating plant.
- Gave away all my adult female guppy. Too many heart-aching scenes of fries being gobbled up by adults in overcrowded tank.
- Slowly moving to an all male tank.

I'm afraid that fungus/mould starts growing on the soil... looked like there was a bit when I didn't completely submerge the soil...