r/AquariumHelp

I have these small specs on my aquarium glass what are they ?

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Hi, I’m semi-new to the hobby and my tank is almost always overrun with it. All I have stocked is one betta and 2 pumpkin nerite snails. Almost always, the floor of my tank is covered with detritus. While I try to siphon every week to deal with it, it always comes back one way or another. I don’t know what to do anymore, my plants are struggling to grow because of it, and I’m scared my betta is going to be affected. If this helps, I have a 5 Gal with a HOB filter, currently with a basic filter cartridge and ceramic rings. Please help me; this is the most frustrating thing about my tank and it’s so annoying.

I obtained this tank for my grandparents four months ago and one of the tetras has had a very swollen belly. The other ones seem to be fine and the toucher was still eating and swimming normally so I wasn’t concerned. I came home today and now there’s something hanging out out of the fish and I don’t know what to do to help it. It’s hanging by the bottom and it’s not by the other ones.

I’ve been battling this sickness for weeks
I’ve lost all 4 of my clown loaches
It’s not ick/epps
I’ve tried every treatment possible.
I have 15 tanks and I’ve never felt with anything I couldn’t fix but I’m at a loss on this.

I am struggling with BBA algae, my tank is pretty good planted i assume.
My water values are ok ( i cheked NO2/NO3), maybe PO4 are a bit meh but i can not get rid of them in any way.
I tried with phosphat reduct resin, injecting little H2O2 neag algae, constant water changes.
I have 2 water pumps, 1 filter, 1 skimmer.
I do not overfeed and my tank is not overcrowded.
What am i doing wrong?

Hi everyone! This is my 10+ year old crystal parrot fish named Potato. Recently he developed what I’m assuming is swim bladder disease. I immediately began to fast him and moved him into a 40 gal hospital tank. After a few days it was clear he was having bowel movements so I resumed feeding him 4-5 large cichlid pellets every other day. I have also been doing 15 minute Epsom salt baths every day. He is not getting better and decided to stop eating today. The issue clearly isn’t constipation (I think) so I’m thinking it’s something internal, parasitic or bacterial. What medication should I start with? I would prefer to dose the water rather than feed medicated food since he won’t eat right now. Thank you so much!!!

For context, the first pic is what he normally looks like. The second pic is from a week ago and the third is from yesterday.

My beautiful tank is dead. Im so upset. I dont know what I did wrong, please help me understand.

40 gal breeder, fx6 filter, co2 injected, been going for about 4 years.

3 days ago I did normal maintence. I pruned plants and topped off the tank (edit: gh tested regularly). I accidentally broke the lid and replaced it with a new lid (did not wash). I cleaned the canister filter as I normally do (swish sponges in declorniated water). Tested levels. All groovy, everyone alive and happy.

This morning at 3 am, my 5 inch SAE jumped out of the 2 inch gap of lid and was found dead this morning. I did not get a through look at the tank.

I got home at 12:00 and found my 4.5 inch yoyo loach dead and 3 smaller yoyos heavily struggling. I checked parameters thinking I crashed the cycle, 0-0-15. I saw that my air pump tube was detached. I fixed that and put in another air stone and shut off the co2. The yoyos perked up, i fed them and everyone was fine.

I check in 2 hours later, everyone is floating and appeared dead. I gathered everyone I could and put them in a 5 gal with new water and a bubbler. Came back about an hour later and a few perked up. All of the khulis, 5 harliquin rasboras and a L333 pleco survived. Everyone else died.

What could have happened? What did i do wrong? I understand why the first 2 died (no air stone) but I dont understand why the rest died. I'm so devastated, this is my main tank, my centerpiece.

What do I do with the survivors? I dont want to put them back in that tank without sterilizing it. Do I keep them in a tub while I do that? Please help me, im wrecked and my tank is ruined.

RIP:

13 Harliquen rasboras

1 SAE

4 yoyo loaches

2 serpent loach

1 orange bristlenose

2 l333 plecos

Filter keeps making this weird noise, does anyone know how to stop it? Topfin 20 gallon filter

Hello, I’m concerned my tetras may have Ich but I’m not 100% sure. None of the other fish in the tank are showing dots.

If it is Ich what’s the best way to treat a tank of Tetras with live plants?

It may be hard to see but theres a persistent white cloudyness throughout the tank, im thinking it might be from the gravel i used but i really dont know, i used old filter media to jumpstart the cycling but most of what went into the water was darker and cleared up fast, whereas this white cloudyness has been in here since i first filled it with water i believe three days ago, if anyone could help i would appreciate it

I’ll try to keep this short and to the point, I’ve never posted on here before so I apologize if I’m doing it wrong. My goldfish is currently in a hospital tank due to swim bladder issues and is on Seachem Kanaplex, if more information is needed on that I will elaborate in the comments but that is not my issue right now. Today I noticed a piece of her fin had broken off and upon further inspection her fins seem to have damage to them in multiple places and I’m worried it could be fin rot of something to that extent. I’ve never owned fish before this and google isn’t being helpful much and I can’t find what I’m looking for on reddit so please please if anyone can help me give me any advice or anything like that please do, I want to do the best I possibly can for my fish.

water parameters have all been good, ammonia and nitrites at 0, nitrates are a little high between 20-30 but that shouldn’t be dangerous and I’ve been watching it closely but I am new to the hobby

I have a tiger Oscar who's tank can't seem to stop going green in the water, I've tested water and it says ammonia and nitrates are high and even after full water changes, complete empty cleans, and multiple types to chemicals I can't seem to get it to stop, if anyone could provide some help it would be great

Hello, I started my first 29g tank a couple of months ago. Did a full fishless cycle and made sure parameters were good.

I added 10 cherry barbs which did great for 2 weeks, and then I added 8 sterbai corys after that. About a day later, I noticed one was missing when I was checking on them, and found it almost totally white with eroded fins, and dead in the tank. Not a big deal, sometimes fish die I guess.

Fast forward about 48 hrs and 3 more had died. A couple of them turned white and faded rapidly, but looking closely at them when they seemed sick, it almost seemed like their fins would start to accumulate what looked like tiny cobwebs on them, and then they would start to erode, they could stop moving, and then just kinda lay on their side and die. The LFS was cool enough to give me 3 more, which have done well. Currently at 6, with one starting to seem sick again with some accumulation on its body again.

Here is a picture of the sick one now:

https://imgur.com/a/WRnEFSO

I know the picture isn’t perfect, but hopefully someone else has seen this before. The remaining 5 are doing really well and sifting sand and shoaling together some.

Here are my parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10ppm

Has anyone seen this before? Doesn’t seem like ich.

Hi all!
I’ve changed my lfs made yellow light (Just aluminum with normal leds prob, nothing fancy) with Glow Light around 1.5 week ago. I was keeping my lights open for 9 hours before to support algae growth for my plecos and stiphodons. Decided to do it like that with new light but total of 10 hours, with 1.30 hours of “sun born” and 1.30 hours of “sun down”. I use 6 ml of All Inclusive Fert a week that is made by a local company. I’ve been using it for 4 months now so nothing new.

I now have some GSA on only front side of the tank (They could have choose the sides which I dont watch but no lol), which I was expecting tbh since I didnt reduce the total photo period when I changed the lights. Also I have these white stripe like things on only my Rotalas and Ludwigia. Not a little bir of things on my Anubiases or Tiger Lotus or Buces or other relatively shorter and slow growing plants.

Also my rotalas were nearly stopped growing when I had my old light, now they startid growing and getting their true colors which is sunset I guess. They were all green with little yellow when I got them lol.

What could be those things ? Should I worry about them?