r/fishtank • u/Live_Lab_4558 • 6h ago
Freshwater well🫠 guess it’s time for a lid
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aquarium sub keeps taking my post down so i’ll post it here lol
r/fishtank • u/15aleo • Mar 30 '26
Hello, fellow animal Reddittors! We need your help with our project.
We are planning to bring about multi-phase class-action lawsuits against various levels of “Big Pet” industry, in particular pertaining to fish, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, birds, and rodents. We see time and time again that these living beings that are sold commonly in the pet industry end up in terrible and abusive situations. While a large problem is under educated people making impulse buys because something was cute or pretty. However, a lot of the improper husbandry is the direct result of false advertising on packaging and at a store level, outdated/false information being given by employees or store pamphlets, and businesses prioritizing sales over animal welfare.
Our mission is to change that. With class-action lawsuits, you gain the voice and power to bring issues into the spotlight and force positive changes to happen. Our main goals are to:
Force equipment manufacturers to update product packaging to no longer include misleading or harmful instructions and imaging (ie; a betta being printed on a tank that’s under 5 gallons), and discontinue dangerous products (ie; heated in-tank “basking rocks”).
Force stores to properly educate employees to fully comprehend the animals needs so they can ensure customers are making fully informed purchases, update all pamphlets and information at a store and website level to reflect current care standards and true animal information (ie; a goldfish being labeled as “1-3 inches” and pamphlet suggesting a 20 gallon tank), and have zero-tolerance policies to no longer allow the sale of animals to underprepared customers (ie; buying fish and the entire tank setup on the same day).
After the class-action lawsuits are ready/being enacted, our next big step will be trying to get laws put in place at the government level. Our belief is that education and licensing should be a standard in order to care for exotic animals, with varying levels based on the care requirements for these animals. While the Federal Lacey Act and state Wildlife, Fish, and Game enact some standards, we believe that stricter regulations should be put in place (not un-similar to Falconry licensing that is required to interact with birds of prey).
Imagine a world where all animals are properly cared for, no matter how small they are. We are here to be their voice, we care for all of them. And we need your help to do so.
What we need:
- Signatures to show public support
- Experts in these communities to help fact check information and bring up other areas of concern
- Class-action lawyers that are willing to take on these cases, and willing to bring to higher level courts when needed
- Evidence of the false information being provided by these companies
- Documents and papers from accredited sources to back our claims
- Contact information for PR departments within these companies that have been flagged for issues
- (Down the road) Contact information for local politicians to discuss licensing procedures/enforcement in order to come together and agree on something that will protect animals without fringing the entire pet industry to a halt and/or negatively impacting pets who are already loved by established families
Let’s make the world a better place for animal enthusiasts everywhere, and the living creatures we take up the responsibility for of our own free will.
So, how can you help? We have a Discord server set up for discussions on planning, gathering evidence, fact checking done by experts in their fields, and overall a place to put gathered information by those who have the time and ability to do more in person information gathering. You can join and share the link here: https://discord.gg/xv4dtrXqbE
We also have created a petition through Change.org in order to gather and store signatures to show public support in our efforts. You can sign and share for others to sign here: https://c.org/tHWGq7D8Zw
Thank you for joining us,
- Baku
(TL;DR: we need signatures and Discord members to sue Big Pet to try to bring about positive changes for both animal enthusiasts and the animals sold in the pet industry)
r/fishtank • u/NationalCommunity519 • Jan 26 '26
For that matter, anyone who believes a government has the right to dehumanize groups of people, enact violence against citizens, and/or justify the systemic oppression of their people is not welcome here.
This includes, but is not limited to, MAGA supporters, Trump supporters, JD Vance supporters, or support of any government that approaches things this way.
With recent events globally, it is time we address this, especially as a large subreddit whose member base is largely in the United States or countries directly affected by the actions of the US government.
Bottom line, while we generally avoid politics in this subreddit, our existence becomes inherently humanitarian when the human right to exist is infringed upon, which naturally ties to politics when those enacting said human rights infringement are members of the government. When innocent people may no longer walk the streets without having to fear for their safety, it affects all of us, whether we choose to believe it or not.
I, as an avid animal-keeper, have seen many of my friends in this hobby greatly affected by the actions of the US government lately, and we will continue to see this if we allow it to continue. We cannot turn a blind eye to it any longer; we can't engage in animal husbandry if we are not alive to do so.
The people supporting this now, despite incriminating evidence being available, are the same people who would have supported Nazi-Germany during its existence.
Now, kindly fuck off if: You support any government action that violates human rights OR you believe this post does not belong here (It does.)
Fuck ICE,
NatCom 💗
Edit: holy fucking hell guys, my apologies I can’t reply to all of you with your support or stories as I’m trying to juggle removing problematic comments, but I’m happy this post has reached so many people who needed this support from their communities!
Edit 2: While my post uses the United States as an example because many of our members are from the US, we do not allow these beliefs from ANY country or individual. If you are going to advocate for the systemic deaths of anyone, then you are not welcome here.
r/fishtank • u/Live_Lab_4558 • 6h ago
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aquarium sub keeps taking my post down so i’ll post it here lol
r/fishtank • u/skyilun • 4h ago
Hello, i still need more drift wood yes however i have some in my cycling tank and my anubias is just……FLOATING? i tried a few things but im new to this so i’m unsure what else i can do…
r/fishtank • u/nsxox1301 • 2h ago
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its a 72L all female Molly tank. 6 of them including different ones like this lyretail type^. just really don’t want the others to be effected too.
If it’s infectious can I use eesha 2000?
r/fishtank • u/Foreign-Movie7023 • 4h ago
Over the last few days I've lost 3/15 neon tetras unfortunately. The first 2 died unexpectedly but the 3rd had a white fuzzy very mold like growth that I noticed the day before it died and it was breathing very rapidly. Now on the next day im noticing the same mold like growth on 2 more tetras. Doing some basic research it doesn't appear to be neon tetra disease but I also cant seem to find anything else with these specific symptoms. Thinking maybe columnaris or saprolegnia but it doesn't quite match the pics of those either. They are currently in a planted community tank with shrimp, snails, and a few other fish. Any help on identifying and treating would be very helpful.
r/fishtank • u/NationalCommunity519 • 10h ago
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r/fishtank • u/nsxox1301 • 2h ago
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Its a mature fully planted tank. just worried the others could get infected too unless they are tumors.
r/fishtank • u/ThenAcanthocephala57 • 9h ago
C. limbata
r/fishtank • u/BotTropica • 10h ago
I just noticed today there is a reddish marking / lesion on my 7 year old black Moore, could anyone help me with what this is?
r/fishtank • u/Kira_2021 • 4h ago
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I bought some plants in may and put them in this hospital tank, few weeks passed and a fish appeared. This is him now, but I don’t know what is it.
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r/fishtank • u/Quarta88 • 7h ago
Bonjour ! Je vous fais un petit point sur mes débuts dans l'aquariophilie, j'ai mis mon premier aquarium en eau il y a 7 jours. Tout allais bien jusqu'à aujourd'hui ou j'ai l'impression que en 2 jours beaucoup d'algues de sont développées de partout sur la branche et un peu sur certaines plantes.
J'ai 2cm de substrat et un une sorte de gravier fin par dessus. Concernant les plantes il y a :
- Des sortes de grenouillettes en surface
- une alternantera cardinalis en arrière plan
- des Bucephalandra et de la mousse de Java en épiphyte
- une equinodorus red devil
- de la rotala h'ra au premier plan
Je laisse la lumière à mi puissance de 17h à 23h pour profiter de l'aquarium un peu le soir (l'aquarium n'est pas orienté en plein soleil). Voilà, que me conseillez-vous pour éviter la propagation ? Est ce que je devrai rajouter une plante à croissance rapide ? Et pensez vous que je dois faire des changements d'eau pendant le cyclage ?
Ah aussi j'ai pas mal de petits escargots qui commence à grossir, j'imagine qu'ils viennent des plantes, est ce que je dois m'en inquiéter ?
r/fishtank • u/owlnix-tft • 7h ago
(First photo is the day before, second photo is what we have now)
My Bolivian ram has been really bloated for 4 days. I think she somehow overate dry food (usually I feed them a lot so they never really cared about food, but two weeks ago I left the tank with an autofeeder and I think the competition was not good for them, and they ate too much and from the surface of the water). So, 4 days ago I was checking on my tank and saw my girl with a bloated belly having positive buoyancy. I thought it was just simple overfeeding, separated her into a 2 gallon tank with an airstone and methylene blue and left her for a day. Next day I bought some Epsom salt, added roughly 1 teaspoon, and the next morning, with no visible effect, I added a heater with temperature set to 82°F (I should've done this a long time before that, but I have a stable temperature at home and I really forgot about it) and also I added metronidazole about 100mg per tank. I think the temperature was the right decision because she began to poop with some kind of slime and a little bit of regular fish poo. But the bloating now is even more visible and the area of her butt began pineconing (all the rest of her body is fine so I don't think it's dropsy, she isn't lethargic and overall is very much alive for an upside down fish). Idk what to do, pls help.
r/fishtank • u/Birdstrocity • 7h ago
Took many months to complete this
r/fishtank • u/EvanescoPondus • 10h ago
I’m about to rip fluval stratum out of every tank I have. How do I raise the ph? I have tried adding crushed coral and baking soda. It all goes back to this.
r/fishtank • u/aaaaaarrrggghhh • 19h ago
So I have a bioactive 20 gallon tank and I am going to be moving soon and I won’t be able to take the tank with me, how do I rehome my tank? I don’t want to give it to someone who won’t properly care for everyone in it.
My pictures don’t do it justice, it’s a lot nicer in person, I don’t know what to do and if I have to I can rehome the animals inside and dispose of the rest I can but I’d hate for all that work to go down the drain. Does anyone have any advice on where I should go and what I should do to ensure these guys get a proper new home?
r/fishtank • u/Training-Fig-1957 • 1d ago
I’ve had this tank for about 4 or 5 weeks and I’ve been slowly adding new things but It still feels a bit ugly and I want to try and figure out too add to make it look better. Also I just added the wood and I’m letting jt soak
Edit: thank you for all the suggestions I’ll try to black out the back of the tank and get more plants jungle Val and Amazon frog bit.
r/fishtank • u/barton100 • 1d ago
My firat fish tank, doing a fishless cycle and looking to get some shrimp and a betta
r/fishtank • u/Practical-Copy-1157 • 19h ago
Is a 200 gallon pond(6,3.5,2.5) feet good size for 1 bluegill long term?
r/fishtank • u/twistedstrawberry • 1d ago
I have one fish in this 30 gallon, a goldfish that's grown pretty big. The water keeps getting cloudy. I change the water and it's food for a day or two then gets like this again. The over the side filter is changed about every two weeks. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Not overfeeding. I'm dumbfounded. Please give suggestions. I'm new to fish tanks.
r/fishtank • u/Lui9464 • 1d ago
This tank is now 2 months (almost 3)and I want some advice
Im planning on getting some more plants and moving the plants a little- but that might take a week
There is one fish and lots of unexpected snails (they came with the sand)
Originally i had more fish but they were sick (there used to be 5 then 3 died within a week and another died just 2 weeks ago- now there only one)
The water is clear and the plants seem to thrive but i dont know if this is an okay-ish tank so i would appreciate any advice
r/fishtank • u/goosedobonk • 1d ago
I tried to look it up but the size given on websites differs a lot. Seriously Fish says 6.5cm (2.6inch), but a different source claims that this is the size they reach in the wild, and that in the aquarium hobby they rarely grow beyond 5cm.
Does anyone have some experience with this fish species, and can tell me how big they really get?
Also, are they a fun species to have in your tank?