r/Aquariums

I live in Texas and have a fireplace that I never used. It just sat empty and sad. I have a 5 gallon tank that sits in my living room and I always wondered if it would look cool to put one in my fireplace. Well after a lot of convincing of the wife, she finally let me try it out. Needless to say, she is very impressed and me as well. It’s a 20 gallon tank. The black face is held on with magnets so it’s easy to get into. There is plenty of space above for me to do any cleaning or work needed and I have an outlet just to the right of the aquarium. Super simple to run a power supply into the housing. I have an auto fish feeder so I only have to get in it once a week to top off the water and feed the fishies.

This is my 125g P. barbarus aquarium!

My use case is to make a lot of smaller shallow tanks (around 2 gallon) like in the second picture above, so I was trying to find something like this to where I can make a jig and rather than measure and mark each piece of glass, I can just place the glass up against the jig and and cut all pieces to be the same exact size.

This 14" tile cutter is only $49 so I thought I could use something like this, but after googling, it seems that these wouldn't be a great idea to use with glass? I can't really seem to find anybody that has really used them for glass either, so I wanted to see if anybody here has done something similar or has any ideas?

I’ve treated all of my plants with an alum dip before adding to my tank but I guess something made it through.

Can anyone tell me what kind it is and the chances of any kind of population explosion.

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?

My grandma used to have this aquarium and gave it to me as she was getting too old to do it herself. She used this magnet cleaning thingy on the glass and because she had gravel in the tank she probably scratched the inside of the glass since some of the gravel got caught between the magnets. It’s not cracked since you definitely can’t feel it on the outside of the tank. I was just thinking if that would be a problem on the long run? I just redid the whole tank with new sand and plants so that would be annoying but a broken tank would be way worse right

So i woke up this morning around 5am to the sound of my HOB filter pulling air. Ngl i tried to ignore it at first but when I turned over, I jolted up. My 40 gallon tank was now 20 gallons in the tank, and 20 gallons on my bedroom floor. HALF of the water leaked out (where the white line is). I immediately turned off my filter, then heater (which is probably fried i dont even want to test it) and grabbed towels to try and do damage control and keep the water from spreading…which i failed at theres definitely water everywhere. As I was searching for the source of the leak, I noticed that the towel underneath the tank was completely dry. i then noticed the other half of the air stone I had in there hanging out of the side of the tank. THE AIRSTONE PULLED HALF OF THE WATER OUT OF MY TANK OVERNIGHT😭 Luckily all i have in there is 4 pearl gourami and they all survived. This is definitely a lesson learned. Its now 7am and i am going back to sleep. Ill get a new heater later.

Wwyd? I ordered some cardinal tetras online and when they arrived I noticed a +1. Im pretty sure its a hastatus corydora, but if not then its a pygmy corydora. There was minimal colouration to go off. So once it settles in and colours up i'll know for sure.

But my question is ~ is this corydora distribution at work? Technically, itd be fine in the community tank, but hastatus corys werent on my list of tank mates.

currently running with

7 sterbai corydoras

6 khuli loaches

6 glass catfish

amano, caradina and neocaradina shrimp

6 rummy nose tetras

6 cardinal tetras

12 ember tetras

5 emerald rasboras

8 galaxy rasboras

the lone soldier bumble bee goby

3 ottocinclus

The tank is a 240L, planted tank with cO2.

Can it exist alongside these species? or do I need to purchase a schools worth.

I have a Siamese algae eater and 12 platinum mollies in it. And the filtration has 1500 litres per hour of water turnover.

My halfbeak just gave birth to 25+ babies. But she is staying at a 45-degree angle head down. The above video was turned leftward 90 degrees. I gave her Epson salt bath in case it was a swim bladder issue. But instead, she popped those babies. I think she is now all clear, but she still swims head down at times. Any suggestions on what I could do to help her? Also, what do the halfbeak babies eat ?

If you know, you know.

Well... it didnt literally explode. I went on vacation for 4 days, expected to come back to virtually no changes in my tanks. My 10 gal looks about the same.. but my 29gal (pictured), my plants all went BOOM. And i havent figured out if im crazy or not, but i swear my tank water looks much clearer than it did the morning i left.

Now it is time to get started working on getting substrate cleaned for the new 5gal tank i picked up over my vacation so i can start working on a cutesy little shrimp tank.

(Also celebrating the fact that only 2 of my glowlight tetra have any signs on nipped fins, hard to say if the tetras went after eachother or if mr.gourami decided he wanted to try and be an asshole- but pretty sure it was the tetras nipping eachother, my gourami- a thick lipped, has been living rather peacefully with his tank mates. The meanest ive seen him is when hes hunting snails)

Guess i go start trimming.

4 days using an UV took our 29g from this to this.
Stopped the UV and did a 30% water change and squeezed the sponge filter in tank water and did the same with the sponge from the AC50 HOB. Also put in new floss.
Do I just need to wait a little more for the haze to clear up?

I have 4 serpa tetra, 4 small guppies, 4 black skirt tetra, 2 Cory catfish, 3 snails and two miniature frogs in here. I do a 2 gallon water replacement twice a week and 5 gallons once a week. I'm planning on getting more Java ferns. The tanks had been going like this for 2ish months but I, 3 days ago, added the 2 frogs and the 4 black skirt tetras and I'm worried it might be too much in there now. I haven't noticed anything to cause concern but I'd rather ask now before it becomes a problem. I'm considering taking the 4 serpaes out as they are the only ones I see being nippy.

I have two shrimp soon to be mommas!! (First time being a Shrimp grandma kinda nervous I don’t know who are the baby daddies but we support) My cpds are looking for the food of the shrimps so idk what to do haha but I really wanted to show off my lil tank :)

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