I’ve been looking for some small yo-yo loaches to pair with the one I already have in my tank but none of the fish stores around me have any yo-yos in stock. I went to another store the other day and they had a 4-4.5 inch yo-yo. I gave them my tank size and what I have in there now and they said my tank would be fine for him. But now that he is in there he looks way too big for my tank. He zooms all over and looks happy but I don’t want to keep him if I’m hurting him. We are moving in exactly a year and will be upgrading the tank to a minimum of 80 gallons but not sure if he can wait it out that long. Here are my tank details:

36 gal bow front 30.7” in length. Ammonia and nitrites: 0 nitrates : 10 Live plants, drift wood, dragon stone. Will be adding more plants but I don’t have a special light (bc the bow front tank) so they have to be Anubias, unfortunately.

2 angel fish 5 phantom tetras 1 ghost knife (I know they get huge. I’m upgrading in a year) 1 - 1.5” yo-yo. 1 - 4.5” yo-yo

You can see the big guy at the water heater on the right. Both yo-yos swim laps around it.

I only have ludwigia rn with a 29 gal

I just cleaned out this tank that used to be my younger sister’s. I believe it is around 4.5 to 5 gallons. I am planning to make it into a shrimp tank, but have yet to start anything besides cleaning it out. What plants are good for a tank this size? And what sort of filter to go along with it (I am currently planning to just run a sponge filter in it but any advice is welcome.)

Hey all, I have a 5g nano with shrimp, snails and male guppies. For the last few weeks/months I have dealt with a persistent cloud in the water. I've tried waiting out the bloom, tried more consistent water changes, adding wood for tannins, but nothing has seemed to effect it for more than a day. Any ideas how to reduce this? Parameters are all good, 0,0,10 with around 7 pH, runs about 76 degrees.

Hi guys!! I currently have a 7.5g cube with ember tetras and neocaridana. I'm having issues with some of my plants.

I have water lettuce, moneywort, anubis, christmas moss, hornwort and a swordtail. I have root tabs under the swordtail and I just had to remove my scarlet temple plant as it just up and died. I am using the Aqueon shrimp and plant kit.

Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrates: 0.5

My Java fern is slowly turning black, and my Christmas moss is totally yellow and not spreading to carpet. I don't use co2 as I only have this one tank and I am learning.

Is there anything I can do to save my plants? Are there any easy plants I can get to make things lusher for my tetras?

I am not sure how to use this. I was expecting it to be more like an anubias at the base, where it’s super easy to locate the rhizome and glue it to something, but it’s just a clump. Am I supposed to separate it? Do I leave all of these tiny roots or not?

Does anyone know what kinda fungus is this(on the wood)

I am setting up a planted 55 gallon, but I am moving in less than a month so I don’t want to set everything up to be taken down, as for my plants, I’m thinking if I can just plant them in some organic soil in a clear plastic tub ? I have a n extra light I’ll put on the tub, should this work out for me ?

I have a co2 infused and two Fluval 3.0 running in my 75 gallon. However my nitrates are too high when dosing something like thrive+ causing algae issues, due to my tank having a bioload (fish food/poop). I also read if nitrates are high, usually phosphate is also high. But potassium can be a limiting factor, any suggestions on fertilizers without nitrates and phosphate? I’m looking at 2Hr Aquarius APT 1, any inputs? TYIA

I was given a 3G tank that house a betta. I put the betta in my 10G because I thought it would be better since it's already planted and cycled but no other fish in there ATM.

I wanted to set this tank up as a little planted microcosm and maybe eventually put in shrimp. Any recommendations for the best way to set up. Since there are no fish or anything, do I need to consider CO2?

So after wondering why my plants were struggling I’ve injected co2 and I have seen an increase in growth but there’s something missing I’ve provided complete nutrients and I can now only assume that it is the BBA that is stopping my plants from looking normal, I believe it spreads onto the plants preventing them from getting enough light, I was thinking about getting some SAE but I wanted to know if there was a simpler way without tearing the whole tank down.

So on my current algae issue, we figured out on testing that for example my nitrate levels are too low and therefor plants not growing as fast as they should and i need to add nitrate on top.

until now i have used Dennerle Plant elixir basic, wich suggest a weekly dosage for 5ml on my 25L. not sure but that stuff might even be too weak.

Now i also came to the conclusion, that i dont like the idea of weekly fertilization because in theory, it means i have quite high dosage on one day and then it gets eaten up and depletes over the week and i think i like the idea of estimated index a lot more where if i understand it correctly you kind of eyeball dose a little bit every day so levels are allways the same with slightly overdosing so there are no deficits and then you take out access nutrients with added waterchanges.

right now i have Hygrophila Corymbosa Thailand, Ludwigia palustris Super Red, Cryptocoryne Lucens, Cryptocoryne balansae, Anumbia Nana, Saggitaria, some frogbit and Bucephalandra Wavy Green. on monday i will also get 2 types of pearweed and a Hygrophila pinnatifida.

ontop i have 3 types of pothos and a monstera siltepecana sitting ontop of my tank.

25L neocaridina tank.

Hey. Lot of my plants begin to grow that Black stuff. First of all, what is that? Second, what can I do? Is it because of mossballs or what could be the reason?

In this not all the shimp grow up, nor do all the guppies. But a more jungle like environment, the more that make it. A beta is the top of the food chain in this tank ( though my would like to be) set up December 2030 .

Found many snail( minumam 50) babies in my 1 month old tank. I can't identify which breed. How to get rid of them. I didn't had any snails in my tank.

Hi everyone, I recently topped my aquarium up with sand and I also bought a python Siphon cleaner. However, it seems like the siphon is not strong enough to get the dirt up into the house and out of the tank…. The dirt goes up the gravel tube but then just stays there(not going into the main hose) Anyone got any idea how to fix this? Thanks

Just noticed this in my big tank.