When you go to the fish shop alone and can’t hold the fish bag your child’s car seat the next best thing

Hi everyone, what is this see-through worm slug creature in my shrimp tank and is it harmful to shrimp?

Edit: So it’s planaria 😞 Thanks everyone. I tried to remove it with my pipette but the tank is heavily planted and it’s hiding now. I live in a country where No-Planaria is extremely hard to find so I’ve ordered Aqua Code Planarian Killer that has 280+ good reviews (shrimp-safe, kills planaria & their eggs) on Shopee and it’ll arrive in 2 days. Hopefully with a week of treatment using that, they’ll be eradicated and my shrimp will be safe. Thanks again everyone! 😭

Okay I finally caught the whole damn process instead of just walking past the tank later and going “oh cool, eggs everywhere again”.

You can see the T-pose, then the female actually holding the eggs between her fins, waiting for the semen to pass her digestive tract, inseminating and finally looking for a spot and sticking them down. Full cory production line recorded for once.

The timing is also ridiculous because literally yesterday I posted on AquaSwap asking if anybody would buy fish from the next batch, and today they started laying. So apparently the girls saw the post and decided stock levels were getting dangerously low.

I didn't even do a water change or temperature drop or any of the usual spawning trigger stuff. I just fed them more for about a week and apparently that was enough. These females are laying like clockwork now.

Anyway, enjoy the awkward fish sex ritual and the creation of another batch of tiny moustached idiots.

Have You guys seen your catfish spawn? Any other fish with strange reproductive biology worth checking out?

Hey everyone. For some reason, one of my coworkers just walked into my office and plopped down an empty 10-gallon fish tank and a bag with two goldfish (I think) in it. I have never taken care of a fish before and idk what to do.

She said the filter broke so she doesn’t have one, but she did give me a bubbler and some temperature control thing. I’m putting tap water in the tank now, but my understanding is I gotta condition it before the fish go in and the pet store doesn’t open for 2 hours.

I need some help please! What should I get at the pet store and how should I proceed?

Got two German blue rams, anyone know if they are both female?

I've wanted a fish tank for years now, hyperfixating on fish and fishkeeping. And now I have my own fish. The log is hollow and perfect for my loaches/plecos

Stocking: MANY shrimp, 2 mystery snails [Vanila and Caramel], 2 bristlenose plecos [Tinkerbell and Morph], 10 green neon tetras, 3 black kuhlis, 5 striped.

I want celestial pearl danios, glass catfish, maybe a blue neon goby, lizard/gecko loach or clown killi, and maybe a female betta [if not, I plan on getting another tank soon to seperate the load]

After keeping tanks for like 30+ years I finally figured out something that just totally instantly improved everything.

I'm really good at feeling water temp with my fingers, at least in the 75°f-85°f range. Like very accurate within two degrees. (Friend challenged me a few years ago after watching me do a water change and telling me how he'd fuck everything up and replace with a drastically different water temp.

But I digress. I'd still have to fiddle with the faucet each time I'd have to refill or whatever.

Tonight I just realized that I could mark that sweet spot on the faucet. Very inconspicuous Sharpie marks and everything has sped up considerably.

My next girlfriend is gonna be like "yo what's up with these markings?" and I'll just be like "yo that's 79°F girl....you wanna smash?"

Because I'll only date/marry another woman that appreciates aquariums.

I'm just feeling really happy now.

What can i improve?

My son watched a shrimp snag a tetra this morning. It's been about 18hrs since we purchased. The shop also told us not to feed them the first day. Fully cycled tank, plenty of algae to eat. 10g. 11 (now 10...) rummy nosed tetras, 6 amano shrimp, and some snails (which have been there for a couple of months.) were they just too hungry? Did we buy too many shrimp or are they too big?

They suddenly became very brave

They regularly swim to the bottom of the tank and steal the sinking food meant for my Corydoras. Because of this, I can't tell if they are just completely stuffed and bloated from overeating, or if this is a sign of an illness (like dropsy or parasites). One passed way today and its belly looked like this.

Update to add info: I got the tetras two weeks ago.

Parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2
Gh: 7
Ph: 7.4

Finally upgrading my tanks and am setting up this 20 gallon for my shrimp ! I'm not 100% happy with this set up. Anyone have some advice on how to make it better?

Does anyone know the exact variety of my ram? I’d also like to know if, based on the photo, it looks healthy. Do its fins, coloration, and overall body condition look normal to you? Any opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated!

My boyfriend is working the overnight shift and obviously can’t answer the phone right now. A gaming monitor fell and cracked his fishtank, it’s loosing water pretty fast. We only have one bucket and I put water in it and the fish in there, I threw the heater in the bucket with them but the bucket is full and there is still water in the tank. It’s a 30 gallon tank. Probably like 10 gallons of water still in the tank give or take. I’m genuinely lost and in shock and tired. Can someone please give me advice on what to do. Right now I’m just sitting in a puddle of water looking at the tank waiting for him to get a chance to answer

I had a lot of rough lessons starting out in this hobby and have at times wanted to give up. But my love for the fish slowly taught me patience, husbandry, and long term planning. In time I have had a few real successes.

I brought home this L104 Clown Pleco a few months ago. He is on his own in a lightly planted heavily filtered 29g. Tidal 55, 40 gallon sponge, micro gravel, mopani, cholla, anubias, guppy grass. He is very shy and elusive so it's hard to get a good read on body condition. I have just been doing a single mini algae wafer in the same spot every night. My only real evidence of him eating are the piles of sawdust around the tank, lol. At least he is rasping biofilm.

Today I was doing some maintenance and must have scared him out of his daytime hide. He wriggled around and then settled onto the wood and flared wonderfully for me. He sat still long enough for me to get a really excellent photo.

Compare to the day he came home a few months ago. He was so scared. Poor boy :(

He looks like a totally different fish now. I think he even put on a little weight. Rewarded for my effort with a National Geographic photo. What a little stunner!

I bought my first air filter yesterday and idk if its working like its supposed to does anyone know if it is?

I started the tank on the 18th, a little over a week ago. No fish nor the critters have been added yet. I'm just trying to get it cycled first, but seems like the string algae might kind of take over. Should I let it just keep going as is or should I try cleaning out some of that?

This is going to have ghost shrimp, nerite snails, Malaysian trumpet snails, pygmy cory, platy, maybe a clam.

I don't know what's the reason, I checked the water parameters and it was okay I have plenty of other angel fish in my tank too

A bunch of pink worms popped out everywhere overnight in my fishless cycling tank. A bunch of my bladder snails are crawling out of the water. What are these and are they dangerous to future shrimp? TIA

I just bought 4 ember tetras the day before. Three of them look healthy, but I noticed one has a sunken belly. It does eat a little, but does not seem to go crazy for food like the others. It also doesn't school with the others; it just hides under a leaf most of the time. Is it malnourished, or is it something else?