Looking for advice on an albino cory

I have a 30 gallon tank that will eventually be upgraded to a 50 gallon. I currently only have 2 blind cave tetras and a bristlenose pleco in the tank with 1 lone albino cory. He is left over from when I had a school and we didnt want to get anymore. He is quite old now.

I also have a 20 gallon planted tank with ember tetras, a shrimp colony and a school of pepper cories that are thriving. They are very fertile. I am in a dilemma of whether to keep the cory in the 50 gallon when we upgrade, but we dont plan to get anymore or move him to the 20 gallon with the different breed. He seems happy by himself and is very old, I've had him for a long time and I dont want to stress him out anymore than I have to but I wonder if he would do better in the planted tank.

Any thoughts?

Disclaimer: wrote this on r/aquaticsnails as well

Woke up this morning had a look at my boy and his shell was forming a white line when i got him but it seems to have gotten bigger. Please help

Water parameters are all good ammonia = 0 nitrite = 0 nitrate = 5.0 ph = 7.4

i feed him crab crustaceans a little bit more than i should because i was cycling my tank with him in it. Maybe 2 pellets everyday now im going to cut down to 2 times a week. I also added in some almond leaves and magnolia leaves two days ago which lowered the ph down from 8.0 to 7.4

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I have a 30 gallon that I'm thinking of making a dedicated breeding tank, but I'm not sure what species to focus on. Are there any species that are overharvested in the wild or generally "under available" for aquarists to buy? Looking for suggestions

I've had my 75g forever. But after a lot of deaths, I decided to go back to the basics. I knew it wasn't my ammonia or nitrates, as those are 0 and 30-60. I deep cleaned both of my aqua clear 110s. I decided to check my ph.

From tap, it's 7.6-7.8. My tank is 6.2-6.4. what the hell!!

6.4 is fine for the fish I have, but I assume changing out 20-40 gallons of water with 7.6ph is a nasty swing for them. I don't understand how in a matter of 24-48 hours my tank reads 6.4.

I have a quarantine 10g I setup for some new fish. I'm testing this tank, and the tank reads 7.6!!! So my 75 drops, but my 10g holds. What gives here?!?! I just grabbed a few lbs of crushed coral I'll be putting into my filter to hopefully stabilize the pH between water changes.

I have black sand substrate (not fluvals pH adjusting substrate) a few massive massive clusters of java fern, some rock I pulled from a PNW river, and a few tiny pieces of driftwood to hold some anubias.

Suddenly after about 3 years of this tank being used snails have like overnight taken over.

The tank has been running for 3 years with black kuhli loaches and a 2 nerite snails. Now all the sudden it looks like literal thousands of snails are in my tank and a little bit more algae growth on glass. The only thing that has changed is I added 2 more loaches to the tank and removed some of the floating plants to let light in.

Should I be worried about the snails in the tank? If so what steps would you guys recommend to clear them out

I have always done fish-in cycles in the, but I am looking to try my first fishless cycle. My question is after you have cycled your aquarium how do you know that the fish you introduce will supply enough ammonia to keep the bacteria alive. Alternatively how do you know you have enough bacteria to support the fish, once you have added them. Thanks in advance!

It’s got:

6 cory catfish. 1 balloon molly. 1 Dalmatian molly. 1 blood red dwarf gourami. 1 powder blue dwarf gourami. And 1 blind cave tetra (Which I’m trying to give away. DM me if you want it).

he’s so excited!!! i hope he enjoys his new BIGGER home

Don’t ask why I might need to move my fish tank, really long and personal story. I might have to move my fish into another room in my house.

I have one idea to preserve the cycle, preserving (aka not cleaning) the sponge filter and using that to kickstart the cycle again. I do know monitoring the water quality is my best bet but water quality kits give me such extreme anxiety (I don’t like messing with chemicals, ironic I know for a fishkeeper)

This isn’t urgent urgent but what did you do? Do I take some of the water out into a bucket and use that to preserve it? (We do have buckets from sams club, if that’s trustworthy then I’d use them)

So, thoughts? People who’ve moved their tanks before?

I would like to add wood to my 10-gallon tank and I was told I could boil wood I collected from the forest. I want to make sure I use the correct type of wood before putting it in the tank. I live near lots of alder, red cedar, Douglas fir, and arbutus trees. Or should I just buy aquarium safe wood online?

*I currently have 2 guppies and a few mystery snails in the tank (not sure if this makes a difference in type of wood to use)

Is something blocking the output? Air escapes from small hole inside case

This is my about a month old 30L cube aquarium. Stock is 6 neon tetras and 6 endlers.

Oh plus a bunch of bladder snails and the world’s least competent assassin snail.

Looking for ideas in terms of plants, scaling etc. not sure if it needs more in the foreground or different plants. Any ideas?

Ps: the mermaid and the submarine are my kids’ so they have to stay!

Thanks!

Hi all, my honey gourami has popeye. It’s on both eyes. I don’t think it from injuries. What’s the best way to treat it? I’ve read aquarium salt or internal bacteria meds are options. If aquarium salt, how should I dose it? Thanks!

Does anybody know what's that white stuff on top of my nerite snail? I hope it is not harmful...

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I didn’t buy anything new, is it harmful? How it spreads?