r/aquarium • • 21h ago

Help What are these??

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Any idea what these are? Just appeared it seems. Tiny - a bit bigger than the size of a period on the end of a sentence. Freshwater tank with nothing but two nerite snails???


r/aquarium • • 11h ago

Help How does this even happen. How did this nerite get under the propellor ,?? He’s only been missing for a day so I’m pretty confident that he’s alive. I genuinely have no clue how he could fit in this hole but my current logic is to flip it upside down and hope.

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UPDATE: HES OUT


r/aquarium • • 12h ago

Freshwater Browser Water??

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Can someone help me?

How do I clear up the water in my Aquarium?


r/aquarium • • 2h ago

Help Hardscape too heavy?

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I'm setting up a couple new tanks in my basement as I've quickly become an addict since picking up the hobby. My hardscaping in my other tanks are all driftwood or ceramic. My question is, can I over do it with the rock hardscaping? Am I risking damaging or cracking my tank? The one on the left is my concern (29 gallon aqueon).


r/aquarium • • 8h ago

Plants cant wait to get my shrimp

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r/aquarium • • 6h ago

Showing Off Shoutout Imperial Tropicals for my first ever delivery (Pundamilia Nyererei)

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I finally bit the bullet and decided to order some of my favorite species online. Nowhere even had these except IT who only had 6 unsexed 2-3”. I received 3 M+F each and they look awesome. The males got their reds within 30 mins of being out of their floating bags and into the tank.

Theres a slight belly indent to monitor on them, but hopefully that’s just the 3 days of processing and shipping without food.

This was my first online purchase and while I hated the transit time, I’m so happy with these, so far.


r/aquarium • • 8h ago

Discussion Aquarium Decor

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So I recently made a post saying I didn't know what I wanted to do to decorate my aquarium, I have small live plants that I plan on putting in the front and 2 fake plants already in as you can see, any recommendations on what you would do differently? I'm going to keep the lid off as I sorta like how the driftwood is poking out of the surface.

I'm going to be getting a beta, some shrimp and snails and also, should I get the shrimp and snails first or the beta first? I want to minimise the chance of the beta killing the shrimp and snail


r/aquarium • • 12h ago

Help Can anyone help and identify if this is Blackbeard algae

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i already had this for one week and idk what this is its not fuzzy tho


r/aquarium • • 16h ago

Help Silver tip tetra

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Recently invested in this 4ft aqua one tank
Stocking consisting of
X6 black phantom tetra
X1 rummynose
X5 black neon
X1 glow light
X12 cardinal
X12 silver tip tetra
Kribensis pair plus additional femal

The silver tips are the newest addition I had seen mixed opinions on mixing them with slower fish such as cardinals they have been in about a week they are obviously frantic swimmers and can be pretty pushy and starting to think maybe I have made a mistake the cardinals stay as a group most the time and are usually in and around plants/cover the silver tips tend to be scattered everywhere not really in a tight school I did witness some chasing from a silver tip on a cardinal this morning very briefly idk weather to stick it out or step in now… thoughts ?


r/aquarium • • 16h ago

Freshwater Will a group of 3 Kuhli loaches be comfortable?

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Will a group of 3 Kuhli loaches be comfortable?


r/aquarium • • 16h ago

Illness/Injury Betta with pimple

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Hello everyone, yesterday I noticed a small blemish on my bettas chin. He is behaving normally, looks the same still eats etc. water parameters are good, ph 8, nitrite 0, ammonia 0. Does it look concerning? He shares a tank with a gay corydoras if that helps


r/aquarium • • 17h ago

Saltwater/Brackish Sleepy? Stressed?

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Hello everyone!
I cycled my tank for four months,
Everything seems perfect so I bought myself a black storm clownfish! This is my first ever saltwater tank so my first clownfish as well, I can’t wait to add some other fish to my tank but I’m not there yet!

When I got them home I acclimated my baby, they swum around for a bit and looked at the new tank, and then after a few hours I noticed that they would lay on their side, I assume because of stress but read that they can also sleep in weird positions- I just need someone to reassure me real quick and give me tips and tricks!

It’s also beeen hard to feed them but there is food on the sand I’ve seen them eat so yay! But yeah how do I do about feeding? Since there’s a wave maker the food goes everywhere:(


r/aquarium • • 19h ago

Discussion Indecision on stocking options

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Dimensions are 82x40x40cm

Current occupants are adult bristlenose, 7 harlequin rasbora, 6 guppies, 5 striped kuhlis.

On my Wishlist.. cories (not Pygmies), diamond tetra, black widow or phantom tetra, 1 or 2 feature fish.

Obviously I can’t have them all 😭

Looking for opinions on best fit for this tank. New to tropicals, had to work with what came in the tank when I bought it. Shrimp aren’t an option in New Zealand! Am adding plants as and when I see healthy ones in local stores


r/aquarium • • 21h ago

Help Taking in a goldfish with almost no notice

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Ive reposted this about 4 times. Im trying my best to get as much advice as I can. If you are knowledgeable about goldfish, please read my post and help me. Thank you


r/aquarium • • 1h ago

Discussion kyathit danio questions

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Really love the look of these guys and thinking about putting them in my new tank, which is cycling rn.

Was wondering for sny owners how their temperament is? Would they get along with ottos?

How many do you have in your tank?

Do they nip at plants?


r/aquarium • • 22h ago

Saltwater/Brackish Did I score?

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Not too sure about salt water equipment I just thought it was too good a deal to pass on if I wanted to start a marine tank.


r/aquarium • • 3h ago

Photo/Video Tank in process

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Can I feed my squeaker cat and ropefish very small chunks of fresh cut swordfish. I caught the swordfish yesterday and I think it would be good food for my two larger fish. I cleaned it up nice and rinsed it well. Cut into quarter inch chunks. I think my keyhole cichlids would like it as well.


r/aquarium • • 3h ago

Showing Off Scud lovers

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Any scud lovers in here? I have some in my shrimp tank and their population is booming! The ones in the betta tank are all gone. Must’ve been a nice treat 😩


r/aquarium • • 4h ago

Illness/Injury What is happening to my Danios?

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Almost 6 months old tank ( stable in water condition (Ph at 7, nitrate/nitrite/ammonia 0 [ was cycled ] , but a bit high on hardness since our water is super spicy here ) with now something that seem to be attacking the fins and overall wellness of my danios ( redness at base of tail fins, frail tail fins, lost of body score and equilibrium). I have a 30gal tank with 12 Danios, 9 neon tetras, 4 platies, 2 horsefaces loaches, 2 boneros loaches and shrimps/snails. Everyone seems fine but my zebras are falling like flies for the last 3 days. No big changes were made in my tanks, except I'm now using filtered water to reduce hardness when I'm topping the tank. My male platy has for sure anger issues, but they are together since the beginning and Ive never had this issue. Is it Fin Rot? Fighting wounds? I will take any advise on treatments/ way of action. The sick ones are now in my hospital tank with Kanaplex and methylene blue treatment. Thank you for your help!


r/aquarium • • 4h ago

Help Nitrogen Cycle question

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I’ve had this tank going for a month now I think. I feel like my cycle has stalled or something. At one point last week I had nitrates over 40 ppm, so I did a 50% water change. Nitrites have shot back up but nitrates staying steady. Any ideas what’s going on?

Water temp is 74 degrees
I have snails inside for now