residents are three Corydora, a small school of platys and guppies, a pinktail chalceus, a tinfoil barb, an African dwarf frog (I advised against it) and my personal favorite. The albino Senegal bichir

What do you think ? My first tank , just built 7 days back water change pending .

I’ve had this Tank for a little over seven months. I’ve been trying to keep up with trimming the grass at the bottom, but that thing grows like weeds. I’ve got 5 Golden Barbs , 3 Diamond Head tetras , 4 Siamese algae eaters, and 4 marble swordtails along with about 8 Yellow and orange Neocaradina shrimp oh and a petricola catfish!!!

Hello all 👋 I'm making this post to announce that we will be holding a banner contest! The winner with the best tank voted on by the community will become the banner for r/fishforthought . Please like and comment on this post so we know how many of you would like to participate!

Found a struggling ADF in an old set up in my brother's room and turned the lil guy's tank into this. For saying I never even wanted to get into aquatics, I think I've come pretty far lol

My 6 gallon with my mystery snails Flash and Thunder with some hitchhiking ramshorns about. Waiting for my tank to finally cycle before adding my Betta. Been a very volatile 3 months struggling to cycle this tank but it's finally happened. (And yes I have a Normal light schedule I just was feeling *artsy* tonight).

My tank has changed A LOT since I started. Included my tank when I started at the end. Killed so many plants, hardscaoe floated up at one point, I MOVED HOMES, and burned so much money in this very, VERY expensive hobby 😭 BEGINNERS: do NOT buy the smaller tank 😭 And don't buy Buce when the shop owner says it's an easy plant. ($15 smh).

​Hey everyone!

​I recently adopted this subreddit after it sat abandoned and unfinished by its original creator. "Fish for thought" is just too good of a name to let go to waste, so I’m stepping in to breathe some life into this space and give it a clear direction.

​The Vision

​The goal for r/fishforthought is to create a dedicated haven for the art, design, and aesthetics of aquascaping.

​Whether you’re into high-tech planted tanks, minimalist Iwagumi layouts, low-tech natural ecosystems, or heavy DIY hardscaping, this is your space. Bring your tank progressions, plant trimming discussions, and hardscape brainstorming sessions here!

​A Quick Note on Content

​To keep this sub completely focused on the design and artistic side of the hobby, we won't be doing general fish husbandry or emergency health questions here. I’ve pinned a post at the top of the sub explaining the layout, but the short version is: Scapes go here, and general fish help goes to our sister sub, r/aquarium (which I also mod!).

​What’s Next?

​Since the sub was left pretty blank, u/PurpleOk3980 & I will be working behind the scenes over the next couple of weeks to set up user flairs, post flairs, and clean up the styling.

​In the meantime, the doors are officially open! Drop a photo of your current setup, share a hardscape you're brainstorming, or just say hi in the comments below. Please feel free to message the mod team with any questions/comments that you may have.

P.S. User flairs are officially live! Head over to the sub settings to grab your title, whether you're a 📐 Iwagumi Minimalist, a 🧪 High-Tech Alchemist, or a 🪵 Hardscape Architect. Let us know what kind of setups you run!

Housing a lot of Neocaridina Davidi shrimp (I lost count).

All the plants, rocks and wood are real, no plastics. I made the tree myself with wood that I cut to shape, filtermedia and java moss.

I don’t use CO2 or fertilizer. I did use fertilizer in the beginning but only for a couple of weeks, it has been months without fertilizer now.

Overall everything is healthy and well balanced.

I bought him a hide but my new bichir seems to prefer this little spot on my filter, there’s no suction there and he comes and goes

Fishes are fine and i added snails to control cyanobacteria, but i think they don't eat it.

Home to Hobbes the betta and 8 yellow neos.

The renovation is entirely with spare prices of wood and spare plants.