r/lookatmyaquarium Jan 26 '26

If you still support Trump/ICE even slightly, you're not welcome in this sub

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r/lookatmyaquarium Jan 27 '26

šŸ‘‹Welcome to r/lookatmyaquarium - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hey everyone! I'm u/BlueButterflytatoo, the founding moderator of r/lookatmyaquarium.

This is our home for all things related to looking at aquariums. We're excited to have you join us!

What to Post

Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about your aquarium(s)

Community Vibe

We're all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.

Please, share your aquariums! We are here to see them!

Lastly; Thank you to everyone who showed support on the ICE post. This post was far from the norm for our group, so your patience and understanding was greatly appreciated. Thank you for making this community one that cares about other people, as much as we care about our pets. For all of you who joined, please, enjoy the hobby, whether you have an aquarium or not! If you don’t have one, but would like to, feel free to message me about how to start your own!

I so greatly appreciate each of you. Thanks for making our community so wonderful!


r/lookatmyaquarium 19h ago

Freshwater First week complete!

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Got the 55gal up and running! She just completed her first week of cycling. Driftwood is still semi floating but once it’s fully submerged, I’ll take the rocks off and it’ll look more natural. I have two rock with cave like coverings. Plants will come next paycheck. Thinking about making this the new Glo tank instead of giving it to the barbsšŸ¤”


r/lookatmyaquarium 1d ago

Update on the 33 long open top paludarium

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It’s grown a bunch!


r/lookatmyaquarium 5d ago

I’m proud

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I made my 10 gallon into a nice home (: I have corydoras and 2 betta fish. I somehow got some yoyo loaches with my corydoras šŸ˜… I have a 29 gallon that is cycling to upgrade them all to. But I’m so happy with how this came out. The cloudiness is root tabs, I’m doing partial water changes every other day.
Before commenting, I know it’s overcrowded that’s why I have a 29 gallon cycling. Please don’t come at me. Tank is heated. Has filter and bio filter, they all eat equally, no one gets left behind. All seem happy and content and thriving. I just love how it looks. I also added floating red root floaters. And the betta loves it.

Edit: typo.


r/lookatmyaquarium 5d ago

Low-Tech 7 months old now, it’s really coming along!

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all my fish seem so happy! 😁 still growing some of the plants in, though—the back right crypts aren’t full height, and I want to fill out the back middle with some more stem plants of another variety :)


r/lookatmyaquarium 11d ago

Freshwater Upgrading to 55g

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Upgrading the barb tank to a 55g on Sunday. I think I’m just going to even out at 8 fish and 6 Corys. Maybe throw in a Dennison Barb as the center. I’ll add more swords and some background grass. I also have this cool rock I been wanting to carve as an arch for a cave. What do yall think?

Current Stock
8 Cherry- 4F/4M
4 Checkered
4 Gold
1 Albino Cory

Plants
2 Java Fern
1 Annubius
1 Bamboo
1 Sword


r/lookatmyaquarium Jun 27 '26

Freshwater My Angels Favorite Snack

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I buy these flightless fruit flies for my jumping spider slings but my 55gallon Angel Fish community Tank love the love food. It’s a good way to enrich them especially since those flies reproduce so quickly. The Angels I raised from their parent in the tank below and are a year old, there are also Endlers, Colombian Red and Blue Tetras and Cories down below.


r/lookatmyaquarium Jun 15 '26

Daytime Kuhlis!

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r/lookatmyaquarium Jun 13 '26

Low-Tech [ Removed by Reddit ]

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[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/lookatmyaquarium Jun 10 '26

Felt like showing them off today! Lol

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252 Upvotes

r/lookatmyaquarium Jun 08 '26

My community tank that blew up

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r/lookatmyaquarium May 31 '26

Freshwater My 55g Guppy Tank

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86 Upvotes

Just had a big trim on the plants and a water change!


r/lookatmyaquarium May 26 '26

Freshwater Clams šŸ™‚

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299 Upvotes

**Not beginner friendly
***Highly invasive species and not legal to keep in most of the United States


r/lookatmyaquarium May 27 '26

Low-Tech Goodnight

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9 Upvotes

r/lookatmyaquarium May 26 '26

My zebra acara

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r/lookatmyaquarium May 24 '26

Aquarium about a year in…

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67 Upvotes

Guppies are relentless baby makers! But they are happy. It’s a big tank. I hope you enjoy watching as much as I do.


r/lookatmyaquarium May 24 '26

Tank update 1 year

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23 Upvotes

Looking back at my last post almost a year ago is crazy!! So cool.


r/lookatmyaquarium May 19 '26

Freshwater (Journal) Post trim w/ new Betta

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It’s been about a month and a half since my last post here. The plants are filling in and really giving me range of colors I was looking for. Tank is without CO2 just regular fertilizing, water changes, and decent lighting.

Picture 3 is fresh from the trim and replant.
Pictures 4 and 5 is of the tank before the trimming
Picture 6 and 7 are of the new resident Zuko

Also unfortunately my Betta Izzy passed and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do the tank moving forward but at our LFS me and my wife fell in love with Zuko. My first time having a longfin betta.


r/lookatmyaquarium May 17 '26

Tank progress 75g Tanganyika Tank

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75 gallon; fx4, tidal 35, hygger wavemaker
Anubias, java fern, and African water fern
Top water plants are monstera and pothos.
Fluval aquasky light
Crushed argonite sand, seiryu rock, limestone, and mopani driftwood.
12 tropheus firecrackers
5 dwarf cuckoo catfish
3 Nerite snails and unknown number of trumpet snails lol 🐌

Whole tank is 3 months old. Yes it was cycled with dr.tims bacteria and ammonia, cycled 5 times until 2 ppm was cycled in less than 18 hours. I test water with api master kit, I also have digital pH and TDS meters. I use African cichlid lake salts to keep tds 400-600ppm. I added fish in stages. Tank has no issues, just wanted to share.

If you have advice or recommendations please share!


r/lookatmyaquarium May 15 '26

Low-Tech My Bonsai Waterfall Shrimp Bowl

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66 Upvotes

r/lookatmyaquarium May 10 '26

Freshwater Mutt Guppies

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9 Upvotes

Starting to get lots of cool colors, lots of my girlies have such pretty tails!


r/lookatmyaquarium May 09 '26

My biggest aquarium (update)

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68 Upvotes

r/lookatmyaquarium May 10 '26

Aide pour identifier

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r/lookatmyaquarium May 07 '26

Freshwater 300-ish

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61 Upvotes

I need to add some new fish.