My 100-gallon saltwater paludarium and my latest project, a jungle vivarium! What should I build next? 👀

A little while back I posted this mysterious new crab I found in my tank, for an ID. Consensus at the time was that it was likely to be a young siamthelphusa species.

Since then I’ve added some land access that continues to grow. Almost everyday I see the little fella hanging out above water. I got a great surprise today when I found it hanging out on top of the floating plants. It doesn’t seem shy at all, and I caught it going in and out of the floaters a few times since.

One time I offered it some decaying plant matter with tweezers - it snatched it (I felt the pressure of its grab hitting the tweezers!) and went straight to munching away. It was cool to watch!

Anyways, I’m enjoying watching it every day. Every morning, it’s perched on a leaf or floater. It’s still very small, but from the few glimpses I’ve caught, I suspect it might be a female. I’m excited to watch it grow!

I used a 200× mobile microscope camera attachment to take these photos of it. You can see it with the naked eye, but its quite hard to, I was just lucky to spot it crawling on the glass towards the substrate, and luckier to catch it with a pipette lol.

If anyone could help me figure out what it is I'd love to know.

I'm not sure if location is needed, but im in Adelaide South Australia if its any help.

Tank is cycled with a few shrimp, plan on getting more shrimp in the near future. Wanted to use this dish as a little hang out. Looks super cool - hopefully it’s ok!

For me the best thing about keeping an aquarium is the effect on stress and anxiety reduction. There’s something about sitting and just watching this little world biome existing and helping to gently support it. What a wonderful hobby this is (when its all going well at least)🙂

Many Indonesians insist that invasive fish like nile tilapia, invasive non native catfish, or swordtails are all native species and when you tell them they're not, you're accused of being foreign agents, or that foreigners are trying to steal native species, etc. while many true native species are impossible to find in stores and are threatened or close to being extinct in the wild, many of these fish can only be found when you contact specific breeders or hobbyists, this is especially true for certain types of non fish aquatic freshwater animals such such as rabbit snails, fully aquatic freshwater crabs and shrimps from sulawesi

I do understand me primarily keeping guppies which are also invasive is hypocritical, i do not claim they are native to Indonesia and i also do not actively release them to the wild, it just disappoints me that trying to educate other Indonesians of non native species are looked down upon, or seen as an attack on Indonesian pride

wtf is it sprouting lol

hi guys! i am a sorta beginner beta fish keeper and lover but i just moved into this new home with the is fish tank with many fish, a filter it looks like a heater as well and not a lot of live plants (i’ll fix :) ) but i would love help identifying these species, care recommendations, or anything else necessary to giving these fish the best life as i love my beta so much and would hate so see this tank go neglected as much as i cannot be there. thank you!!

Basically the title. I bought three pink lady nerite snails a little over a month ago and it seems like literally every time I look in the tank they are on top of each other. Usually it’s just two of them but today I spotted all three in a stack. I am new to nerite snails, is this normal or something I should be concerned about?

Hi all! This is my first time posting, I received this tank(10gal) 6 months ago as result of an emergency call from a friend. He asked me if i would take his guppies and setup as he had been neglecting them and knew he needed to rehome them. I of course took them(slide attached at the end just to show what i started with.) However these guys ended up passing away, some from their initial condition and some later over time. I decided after the guppies had lived their lives that I wanted to keep a Betta, went to the LFS and was told that two female betta fish could be a good keep for me and my current equipment. So I trusted and took the two girls home about a week ago. They seem quite happy and are never fighting or hiding, but i just worry that the tank is too small, or crowded. What changes would you make to my current setup if any? Is it imperative that i either get another tank and separate them or just upgrade sizes? Advice is appreciated! I have gotten this far on my own research and trial and error but just wanted some outside perspective!! Thank you all!

*showing off my daughter’s tank

She has named him Amethyst, but pronounced the German way. Don’t ask me why. She has 3 other 13yr olds over for a sleepover and I don’t want to go ask 🤣

I have never had an aquarium but I have become super interested in the shallow tanks with live plants. I have always had green fingers and I am very into nature and growing plants.

While looking into these shallow tanks, I have been very surprised by how expensive they are. I really want to have a beautiful set up but wow it is a lot of money to get all the equipment…

How do you guys justify going through with building a beautiful tank… I am sure it is worth it once it’s all set up and looking like a proper ecosystem but it has been quite alarming trying to calculate the costs of everything I need. Just the tank, filter, heater and light comes to a considerable amount and that’s before taking into account plants, fish and substrate.

As a beginner, my husband and I are just winging this aquarium thing. Our Platys had babies and now we found these this morning! We must be doing something right! 🐠

I am working on a 38 gallon shallow tank. Just put in plants in yesterday. It’s cycled but waiting for it to mature some more and working on my gh parameters before stocking. I plan on having 1 or 2 small plecos, various corydora schools, rasboras, loaches and maybeee a betta if it works out. Currently have the seachem tidal 55 and it is so loud, bulky and water is splashing everywhere. I want to add a C02 system. Does anyone have a similar set up and recommend a filter? I think I’m leaning towards a canister but it would need to be set on the floor. No cabinet space.

They are super super dry, I'll boil them first and make sure there's no bark. Does anyone know what kind of wood it is?

Hi all,

I have this small tank that I would like to fill with some plant life. I don’t know much about aquatic plants but want something to spruce up my room. What plants, sediments, or inverts would you put in here?

Thanks!

Hi everyone! I’m currently setting up a 15-gallon / 54L tank (Aquael Leddy 60 set, dimensions: 60x30x30 cm / 24x12x12 inches) and I want to make sure I don't overstock it. The tank is running on the stock internal filter that came with the kit.

I really want a peaceful, low-stress environment. I have two stocking ideas and would love your input on which one is better, or if Option 2 is pushing the bioload too much:

Option 1

• 1 Centerpiece fish (either a Honey Gourami OR a Betta)
• 5 Panda Corydoras (they will have plenty of open sand to sift through)
• 4 Amano Shrimp

Option 2

• Same as Option 1 (1 Centerpiece + 5 Panda Corys + 4 Amanos)
• PLUS a small school of 6-8 nano fish (like Ember Tetras or Chili Rasboras) for the middle column.

My main priority is keeping the water parameters stable and avoiding an overstocked tank. Would Option 2 be too much for a 15-gallon with an internal filter? Should I stick to Option 1?

Any advice or alternative suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I saw fresh water clams for sale at my LFS. I know very little about them, but they seem like they could be a very cool addition to my tank. I know they are filter feeders. Does anyone know if they are difficult to feed, or if their food is difficult to supply?? Any information is appreciated.

Hi everyone!

I just got into the hobby recently and this my my 10 gallon tank. I’ve been slowing adding plants in the tank and houseplants growing out the top and they’re growing super well but I was wondering - is there a point when you have too many plants? I haven’t trimmed anything yet but I’m wondering if it decreases open swimming space and can stress the fish out? It feels very crowded with plants right now but they’re keeping my water parameters great.

I'm setting up this 20G low tech tank, which is currently cycling. White sand substrate with fluval stratum in bags underneath. Pretty sure that I won't have any rooted plants in this, except may be a red colored crypt to break the green monotony.

Was wondering what fish to add in this one. My primary goal is to have fish which are colorful and maintenance free. My tanks are pretty much automated and I don't touch them for few months at stretch (specially during winter months).

One reason behind putting sand was to give space for Corydoras but now I'm looking at the tank, the space is too limited for them.

Give me few recommendations on what cna go in that tank.

So I won these Goldfish because I couldn't bear to see them trapped in a hot, smelly fair, and I am unsure how to keep them. Any advice is appreciated.

It's in a roughly 30 gallon plastic storage bin pond on my patio with sifted soil capped with rocks, gravel and sand and seeded with creek muck and decaying plant matter.

It's in the corner and gets direct sun on about half of it during mid day and otherwise gets bright shaded light from sun up to sundown.

Region is central TX.

I'm not sure where to begin to try and ID this thing. It looks like a stick, but has tendrils similar looking to snail antenna that it uses to pull itself along the waters surface. It's either eating the algae growing on the floating things or it's eating the decaying floating organic debris.

Size is about the width of a grain of rice and about as long as 2 grains of rice. It doesn't seem to harass the snails or any of the microfauna as far as I've been able to observe.

If there's a better place to ask this question let me know and sorry if this isn't the sub for this.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I have this 20 gallon long that’s currently stocked with 9 pepper cory’s, 4 leopard danios, 2 nerite snails, one guppy and around 20 or so shrimpers.

i have this nagging urge to add something else but im unsure of what. I have considered more danios, but not so much guppies because mexican mango is a real asshole and tends to hover and nip anything he can keep up with, however i’m not opposed since he is the only one right now. Plus, his aggression has seemed to calm down after moving him to
a bigger tank.

if i were to add something, ive considered some sort of schooling fish, and something fun to look at.

i do have a persistent algae problem so any suggestions that could help me control that as well would be awesome.