I live in New England. We get our share of big storms over the winter. What do you do for your fish tanks in case of a prolonged power outage??

I have 3 tanks, a tropical community tank and 2 betta tanks. If I only needed aeration I would just get battery powered air pumps- but I’m worried about the heaters too. Our house gets pretty chilly with no heat.

House is heated with oil furnace.

please give advice!

my mom has gotten two fish from the perry fair today. I have nothing, I think they are shubunkin goldfish, they pretty big already. I know that they need to be in a big tank and etc but I can’t afford a 75-100 plus tank and really don’t have room in my house for a big tank. Can someone help me with what I need to do. I have no idea but my daughter wants to keep these fishes.🥺

(OBLIGATORY NOT MEANT TO BE AN ATTACK ON ANY OF THESE SUBS im in almost all of them myself, just made it for shits n giggles)

Hi:

Kens Fish flake is what I use for my 7" cichlids. The flake used to come in large pieces, like 4" wide sections. Not any more. I'd like to some how take the small pieces and combine them to make large pieces. I contacted Ken's with no response. Any ideas?

Thank you for your time.

Hello!

He is in a medium planted 20 gallon tank, it's 2 years old, and has 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and 10 nitrate. I have the CO2 on for 4 hours a day. And I supplement with liquid fertilizer and have fluval stratum substrate.

He's the only gourami. 10 ember tetras, 8 kuhli loaches and some random snails.

Ph 7.2 and I can't remember about GH or kh.

2 days ago I noticed he was hiding more. And yesterday I noticed he was angled at 45 degrees or vertical near the surface of the water, and then would dart quickly around, sometimes hitting into things it looked like. So last night I set up a 2 gallon hospital tank with small air stone on gentle, small heater for a tiny tank and a lid. After 5 minutes of chasing him and having to destroy the tank plants, we caught him and put him in it.

I also put a cloth on the tank to keep him calm.

When I looked in on him this morning he was sitting on the bottom of the tank, just chilling. Just now I put in a very tiny little itty bitty pinch of dry flakes and he eventually came out and ate them. A few times he darted around the hospital tank. He does appear to be breathing hard, with (I think?) his mouth open?

No obvious swelling in the belly. And no spots or injuries I can see. The gourami is probably a year old, at least. I think I've had him for at least a year

Any ideas? After the kids nap time I could get pics of him.

UNCONDITIONED WATER GOT ADDED TO FISH TANK AND NEED TO ADD CONDITIONER. CANT CHANGE WATER IM ONLY KID AND MY PARENTS DONT ALLOW AND Aren't LISTENING. WILL ADDING CONDITIONER BASED ON CORRECT DOSAGE TO TANK WHILE FISH ARE IN IT KILL MY FISH? PLEASE ANSWER FAST. ITS URGENT REPLY SOON

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

Was surprised by the eggs! She’s only 4”

He does this for hours everyday, in a 150 with plenty of hiding spots, water quality is normal. he hasn’t always done it before just started last month. I think he’s just strange?

my parameters are 0ppm nitrite, 0ppm ammonia, maybe around 30-40ppm nitrates. 75 degrees temp, low filter flow. my hardness is 3 dKH and dGH. i know nitrates are a problem but i can’t get them down for the life of me because they’re in my tap water, too. i just introduced my fish yesterday and his color has gotten more vibrant. i introduced them to co2 today and they seem to be adjusting well. my CPDs are swimming pretty normally but im a bit concerned by this behavior? he isn’t swimming to the surface and doesn’t appear to have labored breathing. i’m new to this fish so any advice would help! he ate fine this morning. he’s been doing this for like 20 minutes.

Any help I’ll take about to put in a quarantine tank the other fish looking good

seems like a tetra of some sort. don’t think it’s a black neon. lacks the iridescent stripe above the black line. guy on phone (lfs accidentally made this little buddy a stowaway) mumbled the name of it… sounded like maybe emperor but this looks nothing like an emperor tetra to me. any ideas?

i bought a very small black ghost knife fish and a bichir and want to buy a new aquarium for them do you think 260 liter is enough? i do know that adult ghost knife fish and some of the bichirs need more but i mean for at least a few years is it enough? also is it okey to buy gravel and a heater from aliexpress or do i need something more high quality? any tips? thanks

This is my 15 gallon and first tank. I house a few pretty guppies, some corys, etc.

I cannot get the plants to grow! Lights are on an 8 hour cycle. I have swords, jungle val, and that pitiful monte carlo in the front. I have fluval stratum under the sand, I use root tabs (monthly), and fertilizer. (weekly)

Okay, so, my fish have been doing some weird shit already (such as my black Molly losing all color and turning gray? And my female Molly turning into a torpedo and barrel rolling before laying on the bottom of the tank. I’m lowk scared shitless rn because I took out the filter that was looking pretty gnarly and popped in a new one. Not two seconds later, these neon green things?? Showed up in the water and stayed for about two minutes. My water seems ok to me other than a high ph which I’ll have to fix in the morning. It’s a planted 20 gallon with not too many fish in it that’s been going for about three/four months. I’m a minor and not the best at fish keeping so any kind help would be appreciated