Sometime in 2012, I am going to need your help.

See this space?  This is the retreat in our house.  I call it my reading room.  There's nothing in there but a couch and a coffee table.  

I want to put a tank here.  A big glorious, "ooooo and ahhhhh" worthy tank.

I made my husband remeasure the space. (I got 87" when I measured) It is apparently 93" long…

PROBLEM:  We were given this DISGUSTING tank.  I would like to make it usable.

THE PLAN:  Soak this sucker in hot water, bleach, and vinegar.…

Can someone send me a link to the correct Miracle Gro soil to purchase.  Everything I see is a "mix" and has fertilizers added.  Even the yellow bag "organic" says enriched with fertilizer.

I have a 20 gallon tank I would like to plant.  I have never planted a tank before.  Honestly, I just bought a 5 gallon last month (November) and it's the first tank we have ever owned.  My f.i.l. gave us his old 20 gallon (which is disgusting and needs to be cleaned) but I thought I would…