r/aquarium

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?

I just did some new planting and it's murkier than before, but it was murky before I agitated the bottom of the tank nonetheless. I am guessing it's like that because I tried running a tank without filter at first, and only recently added a small smiple pump mostly for water agitation. I don't want a bigger filter in such a small tank, but is a sponge filter a solution? In the last picture you can see my first tank which is 7 gallon, with a filter that would be too big for this 5 gallon tank. And the water in that tank is always clear despite everything. Should I squeeze out the filter media of my first tank into this second one? Btw the lamp on the new tank is new, just installed it today.

Need help identifying whether this could be septicemia or something else.

Over the last few days, I've had multiple fish deaths in my aquarium. Initially, the water developed a bad/metallic smell, so I immediately started troubleshooting. Since then I have:

• Performed large water changes
• Added fresh conditioned water
• Removed the suspicious plant/dead organic matter
• Increased aeration and surface movement
• Monitored fish behaviour closely
• Checked for obvious ammonia-related distress

Despite following the recommended steps and seeing some fish behave normally, I am still losing fish. Some spend time near the bottom, although they are also eating.

I'm worried there may be a bacterial infection such as septicemia, but I'm not sure. Could experienced fishkeepers help me identify whether this sounds like septicemia, poisoning from water quality issues, or something else?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying everything I can, but the deaths are continuing despite water changes and corrective measures.

I bought this 100L (26 gallon) mass reactor flask a few years ago and now have the space to work on it! I'm planning on keeping two young oranda goldfish & 2 banjo catfish in here for now, but I'm looking for ideas/inspiration on how to scape the thing.

Likely tan/dark brown substrate, and I'm imagining longer/ mildly twisty branches that spread from the center with Java ferns & out of the 3 smaller necks, leaving the larger 4th opening for inlet/outlet for the filter & feeding.

Unrelated, anyone know where I can find corks/caps that're at least 4" in diameter? 😅

EDIT: Looking at the advice in the thread, I'll probably find a pond liner and make a patio pond for my Orandas & start plans for either a nano community or small coral tank.

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.

I was cycling this betta tank its my first time ever cycling , I got these plants yesterday and found a baby snail😭is it safe to add substrate for the plants with this in there? I don’t wanna kill it

Hello all! This is my first tank/paludarium build. Started the process of cycling about a week and a half ago. I added snails (a few Ramshorn and bladder snails) over this past weekend, as well. I also did the frozen shrimp thing to help the cycling process along. Took it out when the ammonia was around 2ppm. Added some crushed coral a few days ago for a falling ph.

So the problem: I’ve been testing the past few days, and routinely have been coming up with 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, AND 0 nitrate. I’ve never seen the nitrite or nitrate test at anything but zero (I got the test kits for nitrite and nitrate on Friday, ammonia I’ve had since a week ago), but as mentioned I HAVE seen the ammonia spike.

I decided to just go and buy some pure ammonia from ace to get a more reliable view of things. I added in 4 drops about 5 hours ago (~2.5gallons of water in a 20gal long), I go to test, and sure enough… 0 for all the tests.

KH came out at 0 too, gh went from 5 to 7 after the coral. Ph low 7s.

the question: is my tank cycled? Is it due to the plants? Am I getting false negatives or what? I find it really hard to believe this tank cycled in a week and a half 😭

Edit: some readability stuff

hi everyone. i have a 30 gallon planted cycled tank with 10 threadfin rainbowfish, 10 CPD’s, 1 betta, 5 hillstream loaches, one nerite snail & one mystery snail. two of the threadfins are floating at the top of the tank for the last few days & aren’t doing well. one just started swimming vertically & spinning it seems. :/ any tips, advice, or solutions would be insanely appreciated !!

tank temp: 78°
typically kept at 76ish, but there’s a heat wave in my area right now spiking it higher. also note the threadfins have been acting like this a few days ago with no heat wave. i have an air stone running to keep things oxygenated

ph: 7.8???? this seems so high its usually around 6.8-7
is this the culprit? how do i lower?
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 5

For tank 1 and tank 2. I asked a friend and they said between 7-7.6

I had an emergency and had to leave my anubias and java fern out of the water and glued to the hardscape as I was filling up the tank, they got no water and had my Chihiros B series light at 100% for about 5-6 hours (again had an emergency and forgot to turn it down), they’re withered but are they for sure dead or just burned/ withered? Suggestions on how to “revive” them if possible would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!

This is my first aquarium so idk what im doing but this looks pretty ugly

Scaped my first tank yesterday! Went pretty safe and basic but overall love how it turned out. Hoping to learn from this to hopefully set up more complex tanks in the future. Excited to let it cycle and get some inhabitants in there!

50 gallon freshwater aquarium, planning to stock with a gaurumi and a handful of schooling fish, any recommendations for hardscape. Work in progress, thank you!

Hi all! Currently managing a 10 gallon community tank (pictured first) and building a 2.5 gallon shrimp tank.

The ten gallon features the following Aquatic plants - Eleocharis acicularis, Hellanthium tenellum 'Green', Dwarf Water Onion, and a Water Banana Plant (Nymphoides aquatica), with plans to add a floating Java Moss ring and a Java Fern. I was wondering if you have any other plant recommendations for the tank. The tank houses Ghost Shrimp, a school of Ember tetras, and some Pygmy Corydoras. It also has a ceramic shrimp hideout, silk leaves for pygmys and shrimp to rest on, and a Eucalyptus root. (with an adjustable heater and HOB sponge filter.

Also working on making a 2.5 gallon for neocaridina (Blue Dream or Jade Green, not sure yet). All it has for now is a Java Fern and a mini air pressure powered sponge filter; I want to add some Java Moss and some Marimo Moss Balls. Looking for recommendations here too!!

Let me know if you have any plant recommendations for either of these! Preferably unique/underrated ones.

I noticed this molly i got from someone looked boxy and pregnant possibly and was wondering about this