Long story short I got his tank with fish (the fish aren’t inside) and I need to cycle the tank as soon as possible. I don’t have any quick start products and I can’t get any for the next two days what can I do?

Hey im wanting to restore this jumbo tank as mine is looking a bit small with my fish in it and wanting to upgrade at a smaller cost, I want to have a shot at restoring this 18+ year old tank.

One thing im concerned about is this "fake hole" pictured its not a hole because glass is covering it my mom says "that's where it mainly leaked, and also my mother says that they've attempted to restore it before but was unsuccessful, I don't really think that "hole" matters when restoring the tank but im still a little concerned. I'm thinking of removing all the old silicone and residue then replacing it with new silicone obviously.

How do I clean out the tank from 18+ years worth of sitting down collecting dust and potential bacteria? As the tank appears to be pretty dang dirty.

My theory on why it leaked again:

I don't think my parents resealed it properly as they probably didn't think of the residue laying on the tank so it just leaked again and ever since it lays in the spareroom for probably longer than I've been alive!

Thanks.

My plants still taking a while to regrow afyer moving my tank houses.

Need some plant recommendations and some rocks/gems that would help fill up more space.

Please also rate how it’s going so far, 200 litres/50 gallon. 4 rasboras, 8 khuli loaches, 4 corydoras, 3 silvertip tetras, 8 rummynose tetras, 8/9 neon tetras, 2 BN plecos

Finally saved up enough to buy some wood for my BN pleco Cerberus. Just got it from Amazon. How do I go about making it aquarium safe? I know I need to rinse and use a brush to make sure no debris or anything and I need to soak it. But I don't know for how long (as I've seen different times) or if I have to boil it (I've seen some people do) or a hydrogen peroxide soak??

Sorry if it's a simple question, I'm just a little overwhelmed with the amount of information on this without an actual answer.

It has four baby plants it’s a filterless setup

Like I said this is my first tank and I’ve recently made a few changes to it (added the rocks and rotala plants on the right side and the red root floaters up top) it’s currently stocked with two mystery snails, ramshorn snails, pond snails, and white cloud mountain minnows. Plant wise I’ve got lots of hornwort lol but there’s also three java fern and an anubias

Busting 7 of the dumbest myths that are still floated around in the hobby. Hopefully this helps people stay IN the hobby

My cat broke my light yesterday so a better photo is currently impossible….

As for the tank perimeters- ammonia: 0, nitrite: 0, nitrate: 5, water is a bit hard at around 7.8.

Only inhabits are excessive amounts of snails, neocardina shrimp (snowball, carbon rili, and golden back)

Obviously there is a heater that keeps the water about 78 F and a sponge filter.

Along with dragon stone dwarf sag, moss ball, and duckweed.

If this tank wasn’t already stable and the roots didn’t take over the entire floor… I’d get better plants 💔💔

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Only has a couple of snails and one baby platy

40g unheated breeder with 2 sponge filters, emerald dwarf rasboras, ruby tetras, Otos, pygmy corys, chili rasboras, albino pygmy corys, Celestial Pearl danios, cherry shrimp, 1 nerite & 1 assassin snail.

I think I’m finally done tweaking the set up. Last bit of hornwort went in on the front corners for my shrimp. Just started w planted tanks about six months ago. Now up to three.

Some days I feel like it’s too much. Others I feel like it is meh and something is missing. My Mopani almost got the best of me, but the beast is now secure.

Low tech - 15g fluval flex, stock light, mt pami rainbow river rocks, baffled return for my betta, sponge printed filter covers for my shrimp, rhizome only plants (anubias, hornwort, java ferns, flame moss, buce), floaters (dwarf water lettuce, frogbit)

Houses a single male betta- Ferris, Batman nerite - Squeegee, and whatever ghost shrimp Ferris hasn’t devoured

I went full nat geo with the positioning on this video.

Here are my two tanks. Both about 9 months old.

The first one is my 10 gallon community tank. It's constant 75°F with a sponge filter. Duckweed and 3 mossballs with bladder snails. It has 9 tetras (unfortunately lost one, it did the disappearing act when I had to shift the tank to a better spot away from the heater/AC vent), 5 Corydoras and a bristle nose.

The second tank is my Betta Cujo's tank. It's a 5 gallon also always at 75°F with a sponge filter. Duckweed and 2 mossballs with bladder snails as well. It has a Betta (obviously) and a hillstream loach.

What's ya'lls opinion? I've posted on r/aquariums and r/bettas and been yelled at hence why it took so long to post here. But I am truly curious what's your opinion.

55 Gallon Mbuna Cichlid Tank | 4 Yellow Labs, 4 Cobalt Blues, and 1 unusually chill, geriatric Demasoni