The plants

The plants aren't the hard part. Burying them is.

A planted tank is easier than an empty one, not harder — it competes with algae for you. Thirty steps on what plants actually need, which species survive a first tank, and why the one in the shop photograph needs equipment you don't have.

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Cryptocoryne, grown in

Free, and it prevents most algae

Plant heavily on day one.

A tank planted heavily on the first day very rarely gets a serious algae problem. A sparsely planted one under a bright light very often does.

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Sound familiar?

Everything you plant dissolves within a fortnight?

It's almost never the light, the fertiliser or the water. It's where the plant was put.

Anubias and java fern grow from a rhizome that rots if you bury it. Crypts and swords grow from a crown that rots if you bury it. Bunched stems planted as a bunch rot from the inside.

Three versions of one mistake, all of them taking two to three weeks to show, which is long enough that nobody connects it to planting day.

What you get out of it

Low-tech, on purpose.

No injected CO₂ anywhere in this book. Slower growth, far fewer ways to fail.

The five things a plant needs, in the order that actually decides outcomes

The reliable species list — all of them cheap, common, and fine without CO₂

Which plants in the shop photographs need equipment a low-tech tank doesn't have

Why a buried rhizome or crown rots, and how to plant each type properly

Why melt looks exactly like death, and how to tell which one you're looking at

Floating plants: the cheapest algae prevention in the hobby, and nobody mentions it

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When it is a vet, not a book: If fish are dying, gasping at the surface, hanging at the top or lying on the bottom, if they have visible wounds, growths, cloudy eyes or a bloated body, if they stopped eating, or if several went wrong at once: test the water today, stop feeding, add nothing to the tank, and take the numbers and a clear photograph to a veterinarian who treats fish or a specialist aquatic shop. There is no medication in this collection and there never will be.

The mistake you can see

A buried rhizome rots in weeks.

Anubias and java fern aren't substrate plants at all. They tie to wood and rock, and burying them kills more of them than everything else combined.

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Inside the file

Thirty steps, six chapters, 42 pages

A page from the The Planted Tank PDF — An actual page from the PDF, at full size

What a plant needs — light, carbon, nutrients, substrate and flow, in order of importance
Plants that survive you — the reliable list, the heartbreak list, and floating plants
Putting them in the ground — rhizomes, crowns, stems, melt, and planting heavily on day one
Keeping the balance — fertiliser, reading a deficiency, the light dial, and night oxygen
Trimming and keeping it going — stems, slow plants, floaters, and propagating for free
When plants fail — dissolved, algae-covered, stalled, or eaten

What you get

A 42-page PDF, 6 × 9 inches

Thirty numbered steps, one page each, with the depths, the timings and the mistakes written down.

Steps30
Chapters6
Pages42
Format6 × 9 in

One page per step, with the numbers printed on it
A drawn plate of right and wrong planting
The reliable species list and the heartbreak list, both named
Prints on ordinary paper, reads fine on a phone

Thirty steps, one page each

Depths, spacings, and what goes wrong.

Every step has the number on it — how deep, how far apart, how long to wait before deciding something has failed.

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The plants that survive you, and the one mistake that kills the rest.

A 42-page PDF, 6 × 9 inches

Thirty numbered steps, one page each, with the depths, the timings and the mistakes written down.

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60days

60-day money-back guarantee

If the ebook is not what you expected, write within 60 days and you get your money back in full. You keep the file. No form, nothing to return, and you do not have to explain why.

Important purchase information

Delivery: A digital ebook in PDF form. Right after your purchase you receive an email with a secure download link, and the same link on the page you land on. Nothing is shipped.
What it is: Educational material about keeping a freshwater aquarium. Not veterinary advice, and no promise that any fish will live.
Payment: One-time payment of $10.00. No subscription and nothing further to buy.
Refund: 60-day money-back guarantee, in full, with the file kept.

Ten dollars, once

No subscription. No upsell. No list.

One payment, instant download, and 60 days to get your money back. You keep the file either way.

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Questions people actually ask

Do I need CO₂?

No, and this book doesn't use it anywhere. Injected CO₂ raises growth and difficulty together, and unstable CO₂ is one of the most reliable ways to cause an algae outbreak.

Do I need a special substrate?

No. An aquarium soil is convenient and not cheap. Plain sand with root tabs pushed in beside the root feeders works genuinely well and costs a fraction as much.

My crypts lost every leaf.

That's probably melt, which is normal after planting and looks exactly like dying. Pull gently: firm white roots mean wait. The book covers how to tell them apart.

Will plants fix my algae?

Heavy planting is the strongest long-term algae prevention there is, because plants and algae compete for the same light and nutrients. It isn't instant and it isn't a cure for a light problem.

What format is it?

A PDF, 6 × 9 inches. Phone or print.

What if I hate it?

Email within 60 days and you get your money back in full. You keep the file.

One payment, and it is yours

Plants that actually live

Thirty steps, from choosing them to the month they fill the tank.

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This is educational material about keeping a freshwater aquarium. It is not veterinary advice, it does not diagnose anything, and it does not treat anything. There are no medications, doses or treatment protocols anywhere in this collection. Sick or dying fish mean a water test today and a veterinarian who treats fish, or a specialist aquatic shop, in person. No book can promise you that a living animal will survive.