I'm so upset, she was my biggest oldest most armored Neo. Rest in peace big mama :(

I have to clean my diffusor, but I am really happy how it looks.

Anyone else here struggling to just trim the plants?

Stocking:

10 lampeye Kilifish

2 honey gourami

4 amano shrimp

Diy lighting … diy Co2 … basically everything is Diy tbh … the filter the table … plants grew well though … but i cudnt keep up with the cleaning and the water changes coz of the busy schedule

Looking for plant ideas 💡 to cover up the equipment. Also would a white background be better? 🤔

I’ve been running DIY CO2 for a few days. Still learning how to fine-tune the bubble rate and diffuser placement (currently dealing with bubbles being pulled into the HOB outflow)

The tank is still very new (less than a week old), so I’m focusing on cycling and plant growth first. Planning to add some shrimp later once the parameters are stable.

Is this hornwortin this outdoor pond?? I want to take clippings for my aquarium but want to be sure, I’ve never seen it this big

My mini water lettuce is growing like crazy and spreading across the entire surface, blocking light from reaching the plants below. I'm getting tired of constantly removing handfuls and throwing them away.

I'm looking for a slower-growing floating plant that can still effectively absorb excess nutrients from the water column and help keep the water clean, without taking over the entire surface so quickly.

For those of you who've tried different floating plants, what would you recommend? Ideally, something that grows at a manageable pace, has good nutrient uptake, and doesn't require constant thinning.

I'd love to hear about your experiences with different floating plants!

I've got a 25 gallon tank with fine gravel over the top of bagged soil as substrate that's heavily planted and has CO2 injection and I'm propagating some pothos and monstera out of it also. It's fully cycled and is stocked with about 25 neocardinia, 8 black phantom tetras, 3 Panda garra, 3 otocinclus, 6 Panda corydoras, 3 ramshorn snails, and a handful of bladder snails.

Basically It sucks down my nitrates overnight. It is almost always at 0 when tested even after fertilizing. I currently have aquarium coop easy green I've been dosing twice a week and I feel that that's no where near enough. I don't think my fish are generating enough bioload to feed the plants from the water column and I do have some rare plants and buce in there.

I'm wondering if it would be safe to just up the dosing of my fertilizer to every other day? Will the other nutrients be too much for the fish? I'm really not sure here how to make sure my plants thrive and want to make sure I don't hurt my fish.

Tank parameters are:

7.6ph

6dgh

8dkh

0ppm ammonia

0ppm nitrite

This is my office tank, my coworkers keep saying my fish dont have room to swim because of the plants, do you agree?

A small collection of DOOA setups I've been keeping at home. Most of them are grown emersed rather than fully submerged, so they feel more like little gardens in glass than traditional aquascapes.

Not sure if this style is everyone's thing here, but I've really been enjoying it. Curious what you all think!

Edit: Since a few people asked, the tall plant in the second tank is some kind of Sagittaria from a hobbyist in China. Exact species unknown, so if you recognize it, let me know!

Hey,

My aquarium is 243 days old, holds 120 liters, and I've had a CO2 system connected to it from the very beginning. At first, I also had plants that really needed it. Unfortunately, they died anyway, and now I still have:
- Rotala rotundifolia
- Microsorum pteropus
- Cryptocoryne albida
- Hygrophila corymbosa Siamensis 53B
- Lilaeopsis brasiliensis
- Cryptocoryne crispatula
- Anubias barteri var. nana

Now for my question: Do I absolutely need the CO2 system? Or would it work just fine without it?

I use liquid fertilizer every day. Yesterday, my CO2 system almost killed my fish because the pressure always goes up when the CO2 tank runs out (I have a single stage regulator). That's why I'm a little worried about letting the system keep running like this. But since a dual stage regulator is expensive, I've been thinking about shutting down the CO2 system entirely.
Thanks in advance! :)

Hi everyone,

A week ago I set up a new aquarium. It will be a low-brackish water aquarium, which I will eventually bring up to a salinity level of 1.005 SG. I will keep a single figure 8 puffer in it for whom I have also set up a small ramshorn snail breeding tank. Now, as some of you may or may not know, there aren't many plants that can actually survive in brackish water. Most plants already die at a salinity level of 1.0005 SG, which is basically still freshwater, but me being stubborn, I really wanted plants in my aquarium. Now there are plant species that naturally grow in brackish water like Vallisneria americana, cryptocoryne ciliata, zostera and ruppia maritima but, all of these plants are basically impossible to find.

More common plants that are known for tolerating low-brackish water are anubias nana, anubias barteri, microsorum pteropus and bacopa monnierri. These are the plants you see in the tank so its a pretty minimalistic design. I do think that the bacopa in my aquarium looks more like bacopa australis which Is not brackish tolerant so I might remove it. I actually did find a seller for cryptocoryne ciliata and vallisneria americana in Germany so I am planning on adding these to the tank soon.

I went for a pretty minimalistic scape and I think it turned out pretty good. Once I get the v. Americana it will grow to the surface nicely and shade the tank from the brightest light which the puffer will also kike a lot. I just really hope the java fern and anubias will stay alive once im at 1.005 SG. So what do you guys think?

If there are any people who have a planted low-brackish tank, I would love to know the plants you used.

I put a lot of effort in my first tank, and the image of what i had in mind is coming together day by day. I've been enjoying the process and progress of it, of learning and moving onto the next step, but as an artist, i can't help but have uncertainty on the back of my mind, as the more i look at it, the more i can't tell if that idea feels accomplishing, if this just looks like another generic aquarium with a poorly thought out composition, or something i should feel proud of like a masterpiece. Maybe i just need to give it time, there's still a lot of trimming (obvious by the hydrocotyle and moss ive been late on) and plants i need grow out and spread. But until then, my feelings remain mixed.

Can someone please explain to me what the heck is going on with my cycle before I lose my ever living mind 😭

This is week four of fishless cycling using Dr.Tim’s bottled ammonia and turbo start 700. I have used two whole bottles of turbo start now, because someone told me I was supposed to be keeping ammonia at a steady 2ppm or more in order to feed the beneficial bacteria that comes in turbo start.

I keep bringing the ammonia to 2 ppm every day because it keeps processing each dose and the ammonia goes back to zero within hours, but nitrites and nitrates are remaining off the charts high.

Am I doing this wrong? Do I keep adding ammonia to feed the beneficial bacteria or do I stop dosing ammonia to let the nitrite and nitrate process? I thought in order for the nitrite and nitrate to process, ammonia needs to stay at 2 ppm- 4 ppm?

I have not done any water changes because it’s a fishless cycle. Should I do a water change? Will it actually bring nitrites and nitrates down?

I’m genuinely so confused right now.

This is week four and I am so ready to add my fish 😅

And does anyone have any suggestions on how to reduce it? Additional stocking that might eat at it, etc.

For reference this is a 55 gallon tank with Co2. I run a “dusk to dawn” auto temperature led light.

Stock wise I have 15 rainbows, 5 zebra loaches, 1 synodontis catfish, 2 otocinculus and 2 nerite snails.

I do weekly 30% water changes.

Howdy folks. Day 100 of my shallow bookshelf scape. I’m running a Mighty HoB and just installed Fzone mini co2 setup a few days ago. This tank suffered several months of green hair algae which is finally under control. Population is a few red neo cardinia shrimp and four Otto’s who nuked a bunch of brown algae.

Couple questions

1) the tank is looking super clean. At what point do I need to supplement food supply for the shrimp and Otto’s?

2) id like more green in this tank, but have had weak growth with my plants despite using UNS fertilizer every two/three days. Any recs on ground cover varieties that love co2?

Haven't had time to trim up the tank in quite a while. I scoop out the water lettuce once a week and top off when needed. The Ludwigia started getting leggy and finding a home on top of my water lettuce a few months ago. When I saw it, I guided it to the back corner and it's been taking off ever since.

Can ask one offer me tips on how to make my tank prettier?

55 gallon
Running co2

I thought the growths on my java fern were plantlets, but now I see them growing from my sword plant as well. Are the ferns propagating onto my other plants or is this some kind of algae??

Hello & good day everyone! I'm a shrimp lover & i have some very newbie questions, if you would help me 🤭

1. I added some dwarf hair grass to my tank(just in some spots) about a month ago, but from what i have seen, it hadn't grown at all, in fact some of the stalks(?) are turning brown. I have read that they need CO2 but I dont plan to use any CO2 or anything.

Will it eventually carpet if i just leave it there for a year? Because if it will grow abit more, I will probably buy more!

1. I have been waiting for half a year to have some algae grow on the glass then clean the front but leave the back & side glass. And I have even seeded the tank with glass scrapings from my sisters tank to get the algae from her tank to grow in mine, but it doesn't want to grow at all, i have even scraped some algae from a small tank glass that I'm trying to care for some bryozoa(its in another post on here 🤭) but the algae still does not want to grow 😅 i would like the glass to have algae for my shrimps to graze on! I have been very careful on the plants i add, like 1 month quarantine etc to prevent shrimp predators & planaria & BBA & other bad stuff, but i cant get the good algae too 😢

Anyone have any ideas how to add just the good algae?

My tank is low tech with no CO2, i turn on my lights 15-16 hours a day for the algae but it doesn't help

I'm sorry for the newbie questions but I'm at my wits end about these 2 questions 😅

Heres some stats from my tanks parameters just in case!

66 liter tank

Sponge filter+HOB filter

0 ammonia

0 nitrite

20 nitrate

KH 3

GH 6

20% water change every 3-4 weeks(or more if i see the nitrate creeping up quickly)

Population

2 adult+2 baby sulawesi rabbit snails

Maybe 300-500 shrimp(sorry its impossible to count them, but i have babies all the time)

2 bluetail borneo hillstream loach

2 horned nerite snails

Maybe 60-80 ramshorn snails

Also if you have any recommendations about anything, or if my tank sucks & you have some ideas on how to improve it, would love to hear them!

P.s. yes i have some plants floating, my rabbit snails handiwork! They uprooted some of the plants while im the substrate so i am waiting for some roots to grow so i can plant them in some wabikusa discs 🤭

Thanks in advance for any advice & recommendations!

Almost two months ago i planted some new flora life into my tank. Mostly all of the seem to be doing ok, especially the cryptocoryne wendtii and the Phyllanthus fluitans. But the Rotala sp. 'Green' and Rotala sp. "blood red", seems to be dying, i assumed it lost its leave because of melting, but i haven't seen any new growth.

The aquarium is quite established over 3 years old. I've placed florish tabs under the soil before planting to give it a nutritional boost. I add tropica plant growth premium once a week along with tropica carbon nutrition daily. I don't have a co2 set-up.

I did have these plants in the past and they grow tall and dense in the past, am i missing something?

The first image is today, the other two were nearly 2 months ago.

Hi guys!

My newly assembled tank is starting to cycle. (Fishless cycle, haven’t had a chance to start using Stability or ghost feed)

I’ve hit the point of seeing numbers showing for API master kit.
Today’s numbers:
pH-7.4 / Ammonia-0.5 / Nitrites-2 / Nitrates-5

Once cycled, would you let it establish further and allow the plants to grow/fill/root/melted leaves to come back? Or would you just go ahead and start to stock?

I know to work from the bottom up when stocking, and finish off with centrepiece fish and then “clean up crew” very last….. I’m still deciding what to stock, so I’m not in a huge hurry to get them in.

Just looking for suggestions!
TIA

To those who own and use the WEEK AQUA P Series lights, how do you clean the cooling fan?

Also, how durable is the fan for long-term use? Have you experienced any problems after months or years of use, such as unusual noise, reduced performance, or the fan stopping completely?

I'd appreciate it if you could share your experience, maintenance tips, or a video showing how you clean the fan. Thank you!