r/fishtank

Hello yall! Need some help/suggestions to help get rid of this brown hair algae. My perimeters are in the photo below.

Hello /fishtank, my girlfriend is cycling her tank to prepare to get some goldfish for the first time. (First fish ever). She got some plants from a store and some water and java moss from a friend’s tank to help it cycle faster about 2 weeks ago. We discovered some teeny tiny somethings that are alive today, to us they look like fish fry and we’re guessing there might have been some eggs on the moss she got from the friend. Totally guessing though, anyone have any ideas?

We collected some in a cup to take a picture, there’s a good amount of them in the tank. It’s a 29 gallon. We gave them a bit of baby shrimp food once already. Don’t have anything else and google said it was okay. Any insight/advice/help is super appreciated.

Thanks!

A local fish store had an aquascaping class a few hours from me this weekend and I got to bring a tank home after I aquascaped it! The only problem, I don’t know what to stock it with now. I know I want a variety pack of different colored shrimp but fish wise I’m stuck. Any ideas on some fish that won’t eat too many of the shrimps? (excuse the cloudiness I just filled it with water)

Was able to get 15 BTA out and ready for LFS store credit/cash. Here’s to another week of staring at a clean tanks!

Housing 3 pictus 1 catfish of some sort and 1 cherry shrimp

I started a 6 gallon tank for my betta and it’s been about 2-3 weeks since it started cycling. I put an ammonia source in 24 hours ago to test the water today, but i’m not totally sure if i can safely transfer him yet.
The first picture above for the tests I did in the new tank in order; ph test, ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates.
Second picture is an ammonia test for the tank he’s currently in.

The tank he is in currently has high ammonia levels due to some difficulties I had when I received it, so I’m also wondering what methods I can use to transfer him when it is time, since im a little nervous about cross contaminating water if that’s even possible lol. Same with the plants in his current tank, I’m not entirely sure if it’d be okay to plant those in this new tank. If I’m a little misinformed anything please let me know, I only started a few weeks ago so I’m by no means an experienced fish keeper. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

My dad bought this for my betta fish inside a 40×20×20 aquarium and i think it's too strong for my betta, like his catappa flying around and he's panicking so i take it off, but they said my betta will get used to it, i still refused though.

Is this really alright or should i buy a sponge filter(?) if so, which type should i get?:(

Hi everyone, I’m trying to figure out what happened to my fish and whether there was anything I could have done differently.

Yesterday, my fish suddenly started having severe buoyancy problems. It kept floating uncontrollably to the surface and couldn’t seem to stay submerged. The filter current would push it around, and it would repeatedly get stuck against the filter/decorations and then get pushed back down before floating up again.

Its belly also looked somewhat swollen. I didn’t notice obvious pinecone-like scales.

Because I was worried it was constantly getting injured by the filter, I temporarily moved it into a small, clean bowl with treated/dechlorinated water overnight. There was no filter or aeration in the bowl. I didn’t feed it.

About 9 hours later, it was still floating at the surface, barely moving, and sometimes had its mouth slightly above the water. I eventually moved it back into the aquarium, but it became even less responsive. I moved it back to the bowl, and now it barely moves or responds when gently touched.

it is originally in 20 gallon tank, and I haven’t cleaned it in 3-4 weeks so I don’t know how good water quality is

I’m really worried and want to understand what happened.

For context, this is a completely new 5.5 gal tank with everything freshly bought (no pre-established bacteria or anything). I bought everything and started ghost feeding it 2.5 weeks ago, but I switched to using liquid ammonia four days ago. I re-dosed the tank with ammonia and the test results ~10 minutes after dosing were 4.0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and 0 nitrate. It has now been 16 hours since then and my new test results are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and 0 nitrate. I’m very confused since it seems too soon for the tank to be cycled, and there hasn’t been any nitrates at all. Has the cycle even started yet? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Just a shout out to this sub. Thanks for all the advice from a lurker for a while 😆 how do we think my Tetras are doing? They came into a 2 month new tank 3 days ago.

Big Mama has always been a little nippy but she turned evil today. i noticed she ate the antennas off my snail and she’s bullying the other guppies:( do you think me putting her in time out will help? i have a 10 gallon with 1 male and 8 females plus some fry. she doesn’t seem to be pregnant. she doesn’t even let the boy come near her tbh. she’s like twice the size of all the other fish. she was even nipping at my fingers while i was doing the water change today.

i don’t have a breeding box or second tank set up yet. google said i can keep her in a net in the tank for for 24 hours. i will go out to get a box tmr, i just dont want to wake up to a crime scene.

After cleaning the tank I dropped her by accident!! I’m new to this and really want to save her!! Please help!

Stella was kind of my resurgence into betta fish keeping after I researched more into them. She passed earlier this year. She was a very good little lady. Since her passing, I’ve gotten three more, including little miss Dawnie here. Seems like she’s got the marbling gene, but she’s never lost her rosy lips!!

And do let me know if the water in the last shots looks too dark. One of my driftwoods I’ve got in there seems to be leaking a lot more tannins than I previously thought. Dawn doesn’t seem to mind, but I want her to be safe!!

Both males so is not sexual (maybe it is)

Hello, I'm relatively new to the hobby. I added new shrimp to my tank yesterday, and something else has come alongside them. Should I be concerned? I don't think they are baby snails, they are swimming around occasionally, they look like little white dots.