r/Aquariums

Just put in some jungle Val yesterday. I’m excited to watch it take over the tank.

Have these Galaxy Rasbora (CPD) since 6 months ig,
Found some tank breds..
Works well with ember tetra.
(Have 8 of each)

Females are very brave, males do hide quite often behind plants and decor !

Very interesting behaviours !

( theres red nose shrimp cameo too 🤣)

Which fish should i choose for my 15 gal
2ft heavily planted tank?

Green neon tetra
Chilli rasbora
Psudomugil luminatus

If anyone kept these, kindly share your experiences
As once chosen , not convenient to shift

Room temperature ranges between 22- 28
Depending on season
(northeast India, rainy climate)

Ph of 7

Kh 4-5
Gh 4-6

So I have a shrimp breeding tank than I have a low grade shrimp tank and I don’t want them breeding too much it’s 15 gallons and 65cm long
So I was thinking
Platinium halfbeaks or Peacock gudgeon or lyretail killifish as my options as shrimp control I already have 10 lampeye killifish so I don’t want to overstock this tank.

I live in an apartment and was not told that pest control would be coming to spray the buildings yesterday. They sprayed all around the buckets I use to grow greenwater, daphnia, mosquito larvae, and algea for my snails. So far the daphnia (which are right next to the greenwater bucket) seem fine, but all my mosquito larvae (in my algea-growing buckets) are dead. If the daphnia don't die in the next several days, is it safe to assume they are okay to keep feeding to the fish? (They are always rinsed first)

Im actually so upset, I have spent SO much time getting these cultures going/thriving.

So… this is really bad huh?

Context.. my air stone was on x games mode and it was pushing water up and causing it to drip over the left side of the tank off of a plant. I found a puddle on the left side of the table.

Now… where that puddle was has a tiny bit of warping.

The water also seeped into/under? the level mat. One can logically conclude that beneath the tank is now also warped. As you can see there is a clear gap where I’m literally able to lift the leveling mat in the middle…. of a 500lb tank… i’m going to throw up.
I have no clue if that’s a new development or if im just now noticing because of the water.
There is still water seeping out from the leveling mat in the front but it has significantly slowed down since i initially found and stopped the air stone leak. Now I don’t know if it’s the water from that or if my tank ALSO has a slow (FOR NOW) leak at the bottom seem.

It’s a 38 gallon long. I drained about 7 gallons from it so i guess thats 7 less gallons of water flooding my house but i’m literally so sad. It’s 4am and there’s no where I can go buy a plastic bin right now, and there’s too many fish to drain much more water (and my filter wouldnt work).

I don’t know if i’m venting or asking for advice or what. I guess logically I have to drain everything, remove everything (rip my monte carlo carpet. I worked so hard), and inspect the tank? And presumably get a new stand if its warped. I’m just so bummed. This is my first ever tank and I thought I did everything right. I cycled the crap out of it before adding fish. My plants are thriving. I got my co2 system set up and all my terrestrial plants happy on top. Haven’t even had a single fish death since conception about 3 months ago.

Such a freakin bummer. How the hell do i even begin tearing this thing down?

Trying to get an ID on what type of moss this is?

There is a 3 meter long pothos monster devouring any nitrate in that aquarium.

It started as a tank for my daughter's betta, then it became a cull tank for the endless amount of guppy fry I have to do something with.

Oh and the snails and shrimps are out of control in the best way possible.

What do people usually prefer as a schooling fish? I am torn about which to choose. I really want a true schooling fish that sticks together in a group, but also colourful and bright.

In a lot of videos I’ve watched it seems like cardinals don’t really school tightly, they kind of just hover spaced further apart. I love the tight schooling behaviour that rummynoses do, but am not completely sold on them due to the lack of colour in comparison to the cardinals.

Is it worth trading off colour for schooling behaviour? Or do people have different schooling fish recommendations that maybe tick both boxes?

My mom is getting me this tank because I'm doing good rn and this is like the only chance at a pet for her house I'm gonna get lol

She knows basically nothing about fish, I would've preferred a 5 gallon honestly because I could've at least had a betta or a guppy but it's a gift so I'm gonna make do lol

I need something easy to take care of that won't cost me like all my money lol, I really want shrimp but I'm worried about how they'd do in this type of tank and how expensive they might be

I've taken care of fish like my entire life lol and I'm just starting to get better with making sure they're properly set up so I really wanna do this right

Any and all advice is welcome and needed!

Really proud of my tank, especially with put my first tank started as

My gourami has become less and less active over the past few days. He looks in really bad shape and idk what to do. He has this dark spot on his belly which I don’t remember seeing before. All other fish/shrimp are happy and healthy.

Do you guys think his time is up or have any suggestions on how to save him? Thank you in advance.

Edit: I decided to euthanize. Thank you for those that responded in short amount of time. Other fish began to pick on him and he couldn’t really react. I feel terrible.

lost some real ones along the way. rip sheriff tomato soup

I can’t take credit for the design and I will take credit for turbo charging it with an additional air stones and 4 air pumps.

The stones/air bubbles create suction which draws crap into the filter bag. It’s the first thing that goes in and last thing that comes out during water changes. Sometime the night before a water change I’ll stick it in and stir things up to get a head-start.

Fish can’t really get sucked in b/c the air stones block them. Just the same I check the bag before discarding the crap.

This puts the electronic versions to serious shame. The cost of this is comparably crazy cheap and I had most of it on hand already.

Yes there is a lot of sand in there and it was in overnight and hit the sand bed. Sand is easy to get out of it while keeping crap in. Typically I position it in a manner where it against a rock above the sand bed/whatever an inch or two.

I will stick this in and get down to business and let it suck up the crap I disturb, later I grab it and treat it like a siphon and spot clean.

Aquarist should be issued this when they get started.

Good for spot cleaning too where you want to remove crap but don’t have time for a water change.

Work smarter not harder ya’ll.

Supplies:

PCV tube with 2 end caps that thread into each other (main tube length depends on aquarium depth)
Filter bag
Air line
Zip ties
Air stone(s)
Air pump(s)
Misc parts depending on number of pumps

You will need a drill for the holes needed on the main tube