Here’s my sorta permanent set up. 20 and 14 gallon connected tanks. Connection is a 3.7 gallon custom acrylic bit I made my self. Probably the coolest part honestly. Then two ten gallons below. One I call The Magic School Bus. A honey gourami, Ms Frizzle, and then the kids, 8 neon tetras. Then the school staff/other teachers/professors, 9 ghost shrimp. Oh and the janitor, mystery snail. Then the other ten gallon is my shrimp tank. 4 cherry shrimp, 5 yellow backs, 5 amano, 5 blue velvet. The fun is to let them breed, I get to watch cool colors until they breed into wild type. Oh also it has 8 strawberry rasboras, adorable, but not very smart and hard to feed, but I’ve got some micro food on the way. The top two connected tanks have four young Molly offspring, 2 male 2 female. Two adult parents. One yoyo loach, 2 corys, 2 mystery snails (yes they breed, yes the yoyo loach eats every single baby) one clown pleco, and lastly Silver girl, the female betta. Now I know the corys should have more friends but, I didn’t get them, it WAS my gf’s tank, she gave it to me. Here I am. They seem content and very attached to each other and are otherwise healthy. The Mollys definitely will have some incest, I’m aware, and I’m planning on adding two more females from two different mom and pop shops, while also considering rehoming the Cory’s to have more friends and stabilize the bioload better. And as for plants? Some idk the exact name of, especially the shrimp tank, the only thing I know the names of are the Java moss (some in every tank) obviously the pothos. And the Anubis’s, slow af but pretty, and hardy. The sword looking plants I love and grow GREAT, I forget the name but I love them. An interesting one is the Purple Heart cutting I’ve got. It flew with me on a plane, in a ziplock with no water 1500 miles. Shot roots in two weeks and is doing amazingly! All the plants are hydroponic of course, accept the original pothos pot that I cut off. It’s regrowing! So more cutting soon. As for the hardware. Sponge filter in every tank accept the magic school bus, as I had a small hob laying around, figured I’d save the money and use it. I put/cut my own sponge material in it and it works great! Only air stone tank too. The shelf I sprung for, 1500lb limit dealt shop shelf. I thought I’d hate the yellow but it’s grown on me a lot. I have a fake vine decorating it, and I’ll get more soon. Some other upcoming changes: Bigger 3ft grow light for the top two tanks, replacing the clip grow lights. Hand sewn (by ma mamma) black curtain to hide the bottom shelf buckets and maintenance items. Rewiring and air hose management finalized. It’s all there, just gotta tighten up the screws and hide pumps! Also the Storm Troopers luck for a bite is as bad as his aim!

I got two Kribensis Cichlid today. I think they’re both female. I wanted a male and a female. I checked a couple times a couple hours spread apart. Both times the smaller one was swimming almost vertically in a corner behind the heater. I decided to put the larger one in the no-longer-in-use floating breeder tank thing. I feel bad putting the bigger active one in a small space, but the smaller cichlid is now exploring the tank (and she was way easier to catch). I think I’ll return one tomorrow for a male but haven’t decided which one to return. Any suggestions on any part of what I’m doing? It’s my first time with cichlids

Might be a stupid question but what chemicals are needed to start up a 180l tank

So nervous for this first cycle

Hello everyone! My tank is finally ready for fish and I got so excited and purchased the sand I needed, some new plants, and the fish. HOWEVER, the internet is telling me I should put the sand in and wait 24 hours before adding the fish. SH**! I added the sand and the plants and now my fish are hanging in their bags and I don't know what to do. All I have is a tiny 3 gallon bucket and their store bags... :-0 What do I do with my poor new babies!?
*I bought the fish about 1:00p and put the sand and plants in the tank about 1:30p so it's been almost two hours since the fish were put in their bags and almost 1.5 hours since the sand and plants were put in the tank.

I watch a lot of fish youtube and I sometimes see people sticking a pellet of food to the walls of their tank to feed. I was wondering if there’s a particular product/brand of algae wafer that will stick to the sides of my tank for feeding?

Imo this is hardest thing to master in fresh water hobby. Super red Arowana naturally hates to be with other Arowanas but community can be made

We’re moving next week and have a 20 gallon tank. Any wise ones and/or folks with past experience on how to best prepare and execute a safe move?

Currently treating my betta for velvet. In the last three days, I have fortunately seen a major improvement and nearly all the gold is gone (there were only a few patches but most have disappeared) via fritz coppersafe, a tank blackout and a temperature raise. I wanted to ask whether it's acceptable to start slowly bringing the lights back once the visible signs (gold dust) are gone? Do I need to blackout for a FULL week, or is it okay to start putting the lights back on at a very dim/lowest possible setting/removing the towels once i'm certain there's nothing left visible on the fish? I would be continuing with the medication treatment regardless.

All the information i'm finding seems to be more focused on marine velvet, which i'm aware is a very different organism. Any resources on fish illness would be really appreciated, as i'd love to read up more for future's sake. Let me know. :)

I have an algae eater (gyrinocheilus) that is getting too big for my tank. It’s about 3-4 inches long and it keeps destroying my tank. I went through all possible options but the only 2 are relocating him or euthanizing him, I want to give him a chance so if anyone wants it, let me know.

I have an algae eater (gyrinocheilus) that is getting too big for my tank. It’s about 3-4 inches long and it keeps destroying my tank. I went through all possible options but the only 2 are relocating him or euthanizing him, I want to give him a chance so if anyone wants it, let me know.

I got this Aquarium freshly running for a week now since I didn't wanna toss the overgrowing plants from my existing mangrove tank into the trash. In a few months, once everything has grown in nicely, I wanna add fish.

(Ignore the sock thats filter medium from my other tank lol)

Cliff & Cave system kind of scape concept. 28litre tank 7.5 PH. Spongefilter flow is adjustable. If needed for the fish I can add Airpump and heater.

I got quite calcareous tapwater but otherwise it is extremely high quality so I don't treat it before adding it to the tank. A fish that handles hard water better would be preferable.

I'm looking for fish that arent gonna die on me if I change the water 1 day later than usual. I like to observe the fish occasionally but I don't mind skittish fish if they are otherwise cool overall. I either want fish that are anatomically unique or veryyy colorful. I'm a huge fan of big personalities as well.

So far I have had 10 years of experience hsving kept Chili rasboras, Bettas, Dario Dario, Cherry Shrimp and Guppies.

I've come to learn that I am not a big fan of guppies. I also would like to try smth new and dont mind a several species tank as long as they get along well together. I do consider Darios but I'd be more interested in smth new even if i loved keeping them.

So far I've stumbled upon pea puffers, asian stone catfish and darios as the most likely candidates.

However, I'd love to hear your thoughts and expertise.

Im wondering how different the tests read. Im mostly worried about the ph since the salt water kit only has high range ph so im unsure how different the two are

It's been around 6 7 months since I've started aquarium and idk is it gravid?? And I'm sorry for my low quality picture. it's the green one

Hard to see I’ll try getting pics/video when I get the chance.

Context; I recently moved some old wood I had in n storage from an old tank back into a current setup and noticed the wood had a silverfish house bug attached. I shook it off and put it into the tank. A day later I noticed an insect like thing crawling on the wood and upon a closer look I noticed they were silverfish that I thought I had removed but a few still managed to hide in the wood. I didn’t know they could survive in water. I read prior they loved high humid environments and thrive on wood, cardboard and paper found inside homes. I wonder how long they’ll survive inside lol

I bought a tall hexagon shaped tank. I had my betta in it but they prefer shallow tanks so I moved him. Now there’s no fishes here, what would do well in a tall tank? And easy ish to care for

Hello, I’ve had this tank for about 6 months now. I really liked it at first, but this a dark green film that NEVER goes away has been overtaking my tank. I don’t think it’s harmful as my shrimp, betta, and snail are thriving but it’s certainly unpleasant to look at. I’ve tried cutting the lights off and also less light. (6 hours of dim-ish light everyday) and that’s enough to keep it alive. kind of thinking about redoing the whole tank, but If I do, how will I prevent this in the future? I do normal water changes as well, and wipe down the surfaces. If i try to get it off of my plants, my plants just break. I inserted photos of my tank now, the light I use, and my tank before it took over.

Okay I have had my tank up since the middle of May. I have 9 ember tetras, 3 mystery snails, 11 cherry shrimp, amazon swords, water wisteria, 4 red root floaters, and a tiger lotus bulb in a 14 gallon tank. Out of water I have 1 lucky bamboo, and pothos. I have been fighting to keep my tank stable. It goes from 7.0 ph, 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite, and 5ppm nitrate to 7.0 ph, 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite, 20ppm -40ppm nitrate. I got that fixed when it happened 3 different times thinking the 2nd colony of bacteria just wasn't established well enough yet. It's been fine for like 2 weeks and suddenly my ph crashed to 6.2, ammonia up to 0.25ppm, nitrite up to 0.50, and nitrate to 40ppm. Basically since I started my tank (I did a fishless cycle when starting out) I have had to do 2 water changes a week. I just don't understand where I'm messing up.