Direction for fresh water or planted aquarium

[aslmx]

Im thinking of doing a small or nano fresh water/ planted aquarium. I know nothing about them and they look complicated. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[reefwiser]

http://www.plantedtank.net/ has a good nano tank forum.

 

[Waters]

Depends on what type of plants you plan on keeping. Do you plan on going low tech or high tech? A lot of the same issues can arise compared to marine tanks. You still have to worry about the quality of lighting, substrate, additives, Co2, etc. Here are a couple of pictures of my now removed planted tank.......still can be difficult, just in a different way.

 

[aslmx]

I want low tech. No co2 3 0r 4 gallon. I like the bonsai type trees with the Java moss and maybe some shrimp.