I just got started in fish keeping back in the spring. I spent months getting my nitrogen cycle established, finally finally got to add fish and had a great first few months with them. I kept up on water changes, testing parameters every few days, tending to all my aquatic plants… and then I lost all but two of my fish. Mycobacterium seems to align most with what happened from what I can tell but who knows for sure. I’m feeling so incredibly discouraged and really afraid to get anymore fish. I absolutely adore them and had dreamt of setting up an aquarium for ages but seeing them all get sick and die while nothing I did helped absolutely fills me with guilt. I feel like I failed them. How do you come back from a loss in this hobby? I also just needed to talk about this a bit because my friends don’t really get it cause they’re “just fish”.

Hi, I am creating a moss wall in my aquarium but in one spot I would like to plant some red low growing plants (like bucephalandra) so that my tree with moss as leaves pops more.

Any ideas? For an aquarium with no CO2 injection.

Nj

I have a meter tank to move, the substrate in it is now 1-2mm gravel. I have corydoras in the tank that need sand. So I was thinking if i silicone a few pieces of transparent polystyrene onto the bottomglas I could split the bottom in 2. A gravel side and a sand side.

That way I could still keep all my plants that thrive in the gravel but also have the sandy beach the cories need.

Is this a doable idea and is the transparent polystyrene sheet material safe for fish?

Google kept telling me styrofoam is an excellent way to transport dead fish.

Please help. My tiger barbs keep dying one by one. Try will isolate one day, and the next they are dead. No visible fin damage, gil damage, or any other obvious signs of infection. I keep looking for dropsy, but I haven't seen any signs of that either. It also doesn't seem like my fish are overly aggressive to each other and don't seem to pick on any one fish.

I have treated my tank twice with praziquantel and just finished treating it with melafix, but fish keep dying. I'm at my wits end.

Here's my set up: 55 gal 3 tiger barbs (had 12 to start, 2 albino, 1 green left) 2 rosy barbs 2 bristle nose plecos 2 peacock gudgeons

Penguin marineland filters 350 and 250 Nit: 0 Ammonia: 0 Nitrates: <5 temp: 78 Ph: 8.0 (I know this is on the high side, our tap water is 8.2, I have some driftwood to try and decrease the pH, but can't seem to get it much lower than 8)

I perform a 25% change once a month, and a 10% change every other week. The tank is lightly planted.

The tank has been set up for 7 mo.

I’ve successfully cycled my tank and I added a few shrimp. It’s just a small tank etc. my question is do I wash down my decorations? They have like “stuff” on them. Do I leave that build up or do I take the decor out and wipe them down?

I’m new to this. It’s a small shrimp tank with some wood, some live plants and just a few shrimp. Someone please tell me how I successfully maintain it. (Also should I be worried that I can’t find two of the shrimp? Do they hide really good?)

Hello! I'm not really sure if this is the place to post this, but I'm not sure of where else to..

For a little background, I am the manager at a self storage facility. It is just me, myself, and I that work and run the place. I work out of a 10x12ft office that only has 4 yellow walls, a door, and a window that looks out into the lobby so I can see who comes in and out of the front doors..

I have pictures of myself with all of my animals posted on a corkboard in the wall of my office, and one of my tenants brought me her previous fish tank and said I should have it here and get me a small little fish friend to keep me company. I go days and sometimes weeks without the phone ringing or anyone coming in during the 9-5 office hours (probably because no ones able to visit their storage during those hours because they are working the same time frame!)

Without really thinking much into it, I happily accepted her tank. It was a 2 gallon tank, but upon discovery it had a crack... Me already being set on the idea, I go and buy a 5 gallon tank the next day to keep in my office on a shelf.. I'm planning on a betta and a snail..

My mom calls me while I'm at work, and I just give her a little rundown of what all I have going on. She asks me, "How'd you ask your boss, and what did he say? I've been thinking about something like that for my office."

I never dawned on me to ask my boss for permission.. I never see either of my 2 bosses except for once a month for them to hand me a check, ask how everything is going, and then the rest of our conversations are through email..

Do I...

A) take the tank out and ask for permission, and put the tank back if it is a yes?

B) ask permission while the tank is still here, and if it's a no I try to hurry and get it out to my car?

C) leave it and wait for one of them to notice and see if they say anything?

I don't think it will be a big deal, they are very laid back bosses, but I have my anxiety getting the best of me currently. I am also using this post so if I do keep the tank in office, for people to leave tips of keeping everything happy and healthy!

PS the tank already has water in it being conditioned right now.

I've done everything I can think of and it's still an issue. I just added Phosguard in the lowest chamber of my water polishing canister. It only contains Purigen and and Poly-fill. Phosguard only been in for about 48 hours.

Tank is a 75g with only one 5 inch Flowerhorn. I have small gravel with some sections of dragon stone. I'm also running a FX4, UV and running a wave-maker. The light is only on for 6 hours. No direct sunlight

I keep getting green carpet algae and Phosphates are the only thing I can trace it to. Regular 30% water changes, all levels including Nitrates are low of not zero.

I'm stumped. Any ideas? This is my first freshwater tank although I've done marine tanks years ago.

We have a 20 gallon tank. Naturally planted (dark ludwigia, water wisteria, etc), sand bottom. With a small/young black moor, a dwarf gourami, 4 small tetras, and a trumpet snail.

We feed twice a day, and they eat everything in a matter of minutes.

I've tried everything.

The "pH Up" chemicals, crushed coral, mineral wafers, even adding straight baking soda. I've even tried multiple things at once.

Still tests out 6.6 everyday. Both on the test strips and the test kits with the drops.

What the heck?

eta: While we dont overfeed, the black moor in typical goldfish fashion, does poop a lot. I wonder if that could contribute?

I do a 25% water change every 7-10 days (mostly 7 with some occasional slips)

I have always seen how fascinating fish are, Always wanted one as a child but couldn't get one for some family related reasons
Now that i am old enough ( 18 ) my girlfriend (17) saw a fish that I suspect that it is a Betta, and wanted one and I couldn't really deny it, specially that her birthday is near. So I showed her some fishes to get her opinion, like the half moon fighter and so, fish that are pretty!. And I do not know a lot about providing them with the good environment they need, and if I use tap water or just collect Sea water, or what to do ( saw a yt video saying natural lake water with a filter is better so the fish can age well)
I just want advice and tips about what I need to buy and bring so I can assure that the fish lives its normal lifetime in absolute comfort!

thank you r / aquarium!

TLDR; Tips and advice of what to buy and how to keep a good Betta OR half-moon? and which to buy

i want a white tip reef shark tell me if find place sell

I’m not sure what else to add to this tank all of the plants rocks and driftwood are real I’m just not sure what else I need to add but it seems like it need something

Hi I'm cycling my tank (fishless) which i set up 22nd September. After some advice on here I ordered mr Tim's ammonia to use for my fishless cycle but the order keeps being delayed so I used some fish food. Few days ago ammonia was up with no nitrites or nitrates. Day after I saw ammonia was lower with nitrites and nitrates but I could quite see what shade of pink it was so couldn't be sure the level of each. Today I've tested and ammonia is gone. Nitrates and nitrites are there still. But I just can't seem to decide which shade it looks like. Can I have some help? It's the aquacare master test kit.

In the image I have nitrite on the left and nitrate on the right.

It's a planted tank with some wood which has been growing some white bacterial stuff. Brown algae is growing on the glass.

How is my cycle going? Need i add anymore ammonia or just wait some more?

Thank you.

I have a friend who may be rescued today from being trapped after Hurricane Helene. I'm trying to get some stuff ready for their betta fish, who has been outside of a tank for a week.

This is the test result from a quarantine tank I've been cycling since August. Does it seem cycled? My thinking is to take the water from this tank and put it in one of those plastic tanks from Petco so their betta fish is mobile, since they can't return to their home and will have to go elsewhere. Does that idea make sense? Or is it better to start fresh with just treated water?

I have a Tropiquarium 88 I just bought and I'm looking for any information on it you have. Manuals, tech info, where I can find parts.

Also send me pictures of your Tropiquarium 88 setup, would love to see it.

Thanks everyone!

I am propably soon going to have a ~30g shallow (46x78x32cm). I wanted a community tank with a species of nicely schooling fish. I saw snakeskin barbs and fell in love with them, so i for sure would want some of those. However, Im unsure how many of them I should have in a tank this size. Id also like a group of some corycat species, amano shrimp and maybe bumblebee gobies(would they be fine with the barbs?). The tank will be naturalistic with loads of plants, rocks, twigs and a sandy substrate. Would there be any problems with such a stocking? How many of each species would be a good amount? Do you guys have any other suggestions stocking or otherwise?

Looking for the Dutch aquarium hobby community to help eachother out also locally. https://www.reddit.com/r/AquariumNL/s/Dy5IisB5qg

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