No Gravel, No Egg Crate: A Bare Polymer Floor at Fourteen Months
Three tanks on 3 cm of polymer, no gravel or egg crate. What the build saves in height and weight, the stuck solenoid that flooded it, and who should not try.
Mesh Over Gel: Keeping Isopods and Roots Out of a Bioactive Drainage Layer
Two years into my first bioactive dart frog build, I pulled the cork round during a plant trim and found the truth under it: isopods had colonized the drainage layer, dozens of them farming the damp clay under the screen, and a pothos root had pushed through the separator into the standing water. Th…
