Marginally experienced
My first fish tank ever was a planted tank back in 2006. Had a lot of drama happen including flooding my house (not related to the aquarium......I promise) and having two kids so I tore it down and got out of the Hobby a few years. That was about 2009 I think.
I missed it and life slowed down a bit so now I'm back. With two 75G and a shrimp tank. I've kept many tetras, otos, Plecos, but nothing too exotic. I picked these guys up at a pet store in Moline and they have done quite well in my tank. Their behavior is just neat and their color is simply awesome. They make their clicking noise quite often and because of their color and plumpness seem to be happy enough in my currrent tank, but not sure they are happy enough to breed. Plus there are other fish in this tank that I am sure would happily pick off any fry.
I think this weekend I am going to move the shrimp into one of the 75's, and give it a try. I'll get about 5 Gallons of RO water to start with pump the filter full of peat, see if I can find some acceptable leaves, buffer the KH to the correct level and go from there.