I am a newbie to having a fish tank, never kept live plants or fish before.

I have bought 10 Amazonion Swords on Ebay
3 onion plants
and i have 5 plants from the shop that i forget what they are called...


My tank is 350ltrs, and i am using a Fluval FX5 filter.

No air pump or fancy bubbles, sand for a base in my tank, and a big chunk of funky bog wood that looks ace.


I bought these basket things off Ebay that look good, they look like Mini plant pots made of mesh to put the plants in (only a fiver for 20)

Problem i have at the moment is the 5 plants i bought from the shop are going yellow and with advise from the forum i guess this is because i have no lights in my tank?

So i have bought a T8 light unit and Bulbs for my tank, hope this does the trick?


Managed to pick up a few ltrs of some stuff called 'plantamin' by Tetra, and some stuff in a bucket called 'complete substrate'...

Idea is now i am gonna add the Plantamin to the tank, add lights, and plant all my plants in the pots with Compeate substrate

will that do the trick?

Yes....i also replied to you're OTHER plant thread