r/AquariumHelp

Hi people, I appreciate this will have been asked a million times before, but every post i read hasnt made my situation completely clear so I figured i would ask here.

Im a complete newbie to this hobby, I have a new Juwel 120L tank and have been fishless cycling it for 2 weeks so far. I started off trying to cycle it with fish food, but I wasn't getting any Ammonia readings, so switched to Dr Timms liquid Ammonia. Since then ive now got around 4-8ppm Ammonia, its hard to tell on the kit but I feel like I could have gone too far with the Ammonia now even thought I dosed is less than what the Dr Timms bottle said?

My other concern is that ive yet to see any sign of Nitrite or Nitrate, my Ammonia levels are staying the same not dropping. Is this normal for 2 weeks in?

Some other info that might be useful..

- My tank stays around 27.5-28c

- I added Prime when first filling it up

- I have been adding two capfuls of Stability & Pristine each day

- I initially started with my filter outlet pointing more downward but my tank went extremely cloudy so I pointed it diagonally up and this cleared it up a bit but its still a little hazy

Another couple of questions I have are

1. Is it normal for my Aquarium decorations to grow fuzz on the top like shown in my picture? It looks to be around where my old fish food is

2. Is it normal to have a sort of oily rainbow film on the top of my water? My filter outlet is rippling the surface a bit

I really appreciate any input from people :)

Today I noticed one of my neon tetras was behaving a bit odd, and when I looked at him up close he had white spots all over his body. Is this ich? I live in the EU, what products can I use to treat it that are available to me? Should I treat the whole tank?

This fish lives with 9 other neon tetras, 10 Pseudomugil luminatus, 10 Inpaichthys kerri "Superblue", 8 kuhli loaches, 3 blue neon gobies, 3 pearl gouramis, +20 neocaridina shrimp, 7 pinocchio shrimp and 1 blue jelly snail. They live in a 200l heavily planted tank at 24ºC, 7.3pH, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and 15 nitrates. The tank has been set up since November and I started adding fish 1.5 months later. There is a small cyanobacteria problem that we're treating with Easy-Life BLU1000 Blue Exit, but we just returned from a 3 week long holiday and the tank was in my parent's care, and it was covered in cyano. We cleaned it all immediately and started treatment but I assume it must have been stressful for the animals.

Thank you for your help.

store didn’t have a tag labeling what it was and i’m quite confused.

Undulating body. Can’t tell shape of head, but last photo shows the best screen grab from a video I could get. Seems to have a back “foot” pad sort of thing at the end of it that clings to glass/anchors to substrate. I’ve sucked a few out over weeks but not sure if I need to bring out the big guns.

I also have tons of fine detritus worms. But this guy is on another level.

We have had this cool guy since January. He was maybe 2 inches when we got him. He’s now closer to 4. My husband and I are stuck on identifying if he’s a common pleco that will get huge, or a bristlenose pleco. The dojo loach is about 5-6 inches at full length, for reference.

I need some advice. Both my black moor goldfish have gotten this white speckles on their fins and tails the past two or three days. They mostly sit on the bottom of the tank. It doesn’t look like ich to me personally but I’ve also never dealt with it before. I’ve started a fungal/bacterial treatment (using Fritz BacterShield per the suggestion of a petsmart employee - the only dish store we really have in town). It just doesn’t seem to be helping, as least not yet. I went back today and another person said it could be fish lice. I just feel so bad they look so sad. If there’s any advice I’d be so grateful.
I tested the water yesterday: pH was 6 (this is unchanged from how it normally is), nitrite was 0, nitrate 10 and ammonia 0.3 (i use a liquid test kit (fluval).
I did a 30% water change yesterday but haven’t seen any improvement.

They are cute.

Help! I’ve come back from holidays and one of my glow lights is deformed. They were all fine when I left. Water parameters are:
Nitrite 0.025ppm
Nitrate 4ppm
Ammonia <0.05ppm
pH 7.5
I’ve had nothing new introduced into the tank for months. Could this be fish tb? Should I do a water change? I also have a lone male guppy in the tank whose abdomen has been slowly swelling over the last few months. He’s eating and moving fine when he wants to but rests a bit too. Looks relaxed while he’s resting, loose flowy fins. Could this be a tumour or something else? Apologising for poor pictures of the guppy, he moves quickly!

My goldfish died it used to be solid orange
I wanna make sure my other goldfish doesn’t die
The other Fish ran away whenever I came to the water, but this one kind of just kept doing what it was doing not scared of me.
I have a master test kit that’s about a year old, maybe two

Currently cycling my tank and doing a small water change and accidently swallowed a small amount of tap water i put Api stress coat in. Im talking a really small mouthful while siphoning the water back into the tank and now im worried i've poisened myself.

I guess thats why they call it stress coat because im stressed tf out rn lol

i set up my 5gal on 3/31, using fluval capped with sand and ghost fed for a week or so. i noticed the ammonia got high so i stopped feeding, but here are the levels n dates lmk what i can do😓. 4/13: ph: 7.2, ammonia: 1.0, nitrite: 1.0 and nitrate: 20. 4/16: ph: 7.2, ammonia: 4.0, nitrite: 1.0-2.0, nitrate: 20. 4/23: ph: 7.2, ammonia: 4.0, nitrite: 1.0, nitrate i ended up doing a water change bc i notice ammonia was high, then didnt realize i had to wait and tested 6 hours later the next day(4/24)😂😂 4/24: ph: 7.2, ammonia: 1.0, nitrite: .25- .50, nitrate: 20-10 4/27: ph: 7.2, ammonia: 2-4, nitrite: 1.0, nitrate: 10. i tested again today(4/29) just for ammonia and nitrites which are the results in the picture ammonia: 4.0, nitrite: 2.0.. it's been almost a month and the levels just keep rising i'm not sure what to do??

I got home from work this morning and my betta was acting odd. I took a closer look and the side of his face is all red and flaky and he’s acting limp and keeps standing on his tail. He’s also gotten pale. I noticed the sheen on him (pic 2) that wasn’t there before and I’m worried he might have velvet… I’ve isolated him in a small carrier container with one of the plants from the aquarium, and given him a little antibiotics. As far as parameters go my ph is a little low, but aside from that completely fine, and I’m really worried he’s gonna die on me. He wasn’t like this yesterday and he was swimming just fine! All the other fish are fine, a handful of Corys, some tetras, and some guppies in a 40g. I can’t see any pine coning, and none of the other fish look sick. Please can somebody tell me what to do, I need help! I don’t want him to die!

My fish has been doing circles on his reflection for most of the day. Is he playing with his reflection? He's aggressive even to other Buenos Aires tetras and I had to move him to out of my 29 gallon tank to a 3 gallon tank a couple weeks ago. He's in there with a few corys and that's it. I don't think he's very happy about it but he was terrorizing my other tetras and barbs.

Hey everyone so I have might already but there kinda stinky and one isn’t even full spectrum. I’ve found this on Amazon it’s a decent price and the actual light without the supports is 60cm long perfect for both my tanks was wondering if this is reliable and worth the price.

The Kelvin is 6500k
And is full spectrum

This is Vienna. Her birthday is next month she will be turning one. I have some photos on my account of when she was a baby. Im making this post as an update for the previous ones because everything feels like a mess because there's a couple posts.

This is mine and my boyfriend fish and usually he cares for her but the past month he's been in jail. I had an emergency and had to move her tank and sell her stand for financial reasons so now she is on the floor please do not judge I am working on getting her something new.

Because of me selling her stand i had to do a big water change basically 75% because I couldn't move that tank by myself and thankfully she needed a waterchange anyways.

Her sponge filter broke two days ago but I just fixed it today!!

She is in a 20gal tank, water temp is 76f (a bit cold but I read some fish diseases or sicknesses love cold or hot water so I don't know what to set it right now. She has no tank mates and looks stressed and we think it's because she didn't have a lamp for a long while but she just got a new LED lamp a couple days ago so hopefully the stress goes away.

Yesterday I noticed two white spots on her. One on each side. There are no other spots. I was told since it's too early to see what it is I'll have to wait a bit to see more sypthoms/ spots.

Someone else pointed out some fin rot (which wasn't there about two weeks ago which I found out by looking at photos and time stamps)

First I thought it was ich but everyone thinks it is not. Most are saying epistylis and some said it might be some sort of bacteria or fungal infection.

Im not sure what it is.

I was told get seachem kanaplex, aquarium salt,

seachem metroplex or fritz metroclease because those two are the same drug.

People messaged me saying aquarium salt won't do anything and I don't know what to do.

So now, what is it is should do? I want to order whatever treatment I need online ASAP because stores here basically do not carry anything in store. Since I have to wait a bit to see what is it that's truly wrong with her I think its best to order something asap.

So the question is? What is it that I order? What do I start with? What is the first treatment and first step? Do i put her in a hospital tank and if yes what do i put in there with her? I need someone to walk me through this like I just stepped onto this world. I don't want to shock her or kill whatever plants survived when she didn't have a lamp. And I don't want to dump a million chemicals and medicine in her tank and kill her. What is the first step please walk me through it. Thank you.

Hi everyone! first time setting up a saltwater tank so I'm starting the cycle. I'm confused about the ammonia reading though. After 5 minutes, it's looking a lot more blue than green. Could this mean I overdosed the tank with ammonia chloride? I was very careful and only added an extremely small dose.

This test was about 4-5 min in after adding the chemicals.

After about 10 minutes it's looking exactly like the nitrite colour at 0ppm. (but I know you're not supposed to look after 5 minutes)

Could someone help me with my filter flow rate? It’s actually too strong, and I’d like the water output to be gentler so my betta can swim without getting exhausted. I’m not sure how to fix it. I already tried putting a sponge at the outlet, but then the water just overflows from the top. What should I do?
Thanks

Slides 1 and 2: today

Slides 3: 2 weeks ago, freshly planted

Tank Parameters:

• 60L/15 gallons, fresh water at 25C / 77F, have had tank for same time as fish but only planted 2-3 wks ago
• 2 small fish (have had them alive for 5+ yrs) + 4 nerite snails
• Used to have algae problems but since added plants, not a problem
• Water nitrates (NO2 and NO3) are low, almost 0
• Water hardness is quite high (GH 180ppm)
• pH is 6.5-7
• kH is 40 ppm
• I used filtered water from home and do 10% water changes weekly
• Light is 30W from Aliexpress for ~5 hrs daily
• Dose with API Leaf Zone once weekly
• Gravel substrate

Plants:

• x2 java fern
• x2 anubias
• vallisneria
• hygrophila polysperma

I did not bury rhizomes of java fern or anubias (secured on rocks/shells/coral with rubber band before I can get superglue). The anubias probably is the most intact atm. Java fern has yellowed, gotten more spotty and big leaves are browning.

My hygrophilia came without roots? So I just put the stems in but now they are browning from the bottom to the top. The stems are becoming mushy...

The vallisneria is also not looking too good. It is wilted, mushy and shedding.

What do I do! I really want this tank to survive please! I really appreciate any feesback and advice 🥹🙏

TIA x

I just noticed these two spots on her today. And the last picture is a discolored spot on her head I noticed yesterday. Im not sure if the two white spots were there yesterday. Is this ich??? Is this early stages?? What do I do how do I treat her?? Her tank is a 20gal with 76f temp. Only new thing that's changed is her filter yesterday because her original one gave out so I gave her her old filter. And a couple days ago she got a new tank light. Help please she's turning 1 year old next month I don't know what to do. She's mine and my boyfriends fish and he's in jail right now I cannot have our baby die while he's gone please