Your First Low-Tech Planted Aquarium: A 90-Day Plan for a Stable Freshwater Tank Without Injected CO₂

By Slavi Rahov

Build Your First Planted Aquarium With a Clear 90-Day Plan

Your First Low-Tech Planted Aquarium is a practical beginner's guide to creating a stable freshwater tank with live plants-without injected CO₂, complicated equipment, or constant adjustments.

Choose a Setup That Actually Fits Your Home

Learn how to evaluate tank size, source water, filtration, lighting, substrate, maintenance access, and fish requirements before making expensive purchases.

Start With Beginner-Friendly Plants

Understand how to plant and care for Bacopa, Cryptocoryne, Anubias, Java fern, and Vallisneria while keeping roots, crowns, rhizomes, lighting, nutrients, and growth under control.

Establish the Aquarium Before Adding Fish

Follow a measured fishless-cycling process, learn how ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, GH, and KH work together, and use an evidence-based readiness check instead of relying on a fixed number of days.

Follow the First 90 Days Step by Step

Move from setup and establishment through the first fish, daily observations, weekly maintenance, plant adjustments, algae management, feeding, and a repeatable long-term routine.

Know What to Do When Something Changes

Use practical decision paths for cloudy water, unexpected ammonia, declining plants, filter problems, algae, temperature changes, and abnormal fish behavior without immediately reaching for unnecessary products.

With three complete aquarium configurations, diagrams, worked examples, calculations, a recurring 90-day case, and practical checklists, this guide gives beginners a structured way to build a freshwater planted aquarium they can understand and maintain with confidence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HK8RLLKS
• ISBN13: 9798175334709
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"