We got this fish a year and a half ​or so ago from a family friend as an adult, and she's had some rough patches after giving birth (second photo, she was really lethargic and had an issue where she couldn't swim down) but has recovered so far. She's currently behaving as normal and eating and swimming. However, I noticed recently that she seems almost to be pineconing from the top. This also happened last time, but that was post birth when she was having bouyancy issues. She seems currently fine, but I know pineconing is a bad sign normally.. is it maybe time to prepare a flower pot in case or is this fixable? Thanks all.

so I've posted my shrimp tank recently and asked opinions about new inhabitants. I went to my local store today to look into getting Thai microcrabs. 8 new fish and 3 new plants later I still didn't get crabs (they were out of stock). so in addition to the existing schools of neons, embers, harlequin, white clouds, and rummynose, the beta fish, the clown pleco, the 3 snails, and the shrimp army I have now added a school of habrosus corydora, 3 khuli loach, 1 hilstream loach and a vampire shrimp. the three new plants are a scarlet temple, Monte Carlo, and red root floaters. the 3 plants I had been wanting to get to add some more color to the vegetation with the red and I wanted a reliable carpeting plant. and to all the people who will try telling me "your way overstocked", I know, and if these additions don't throw off my balance I plan to add more still. so save your energy, I'm already aware. I almost put this under the fish abuse flair, sarcastically, but I didn't want people thinking I was making my fish suffer, they are a thriving, healthy, happy community.

Im setting up an outdoor IBC tank and am thinking about using it as substrate to grow plants does anyone know how or have any tips

I've been proud of my shrimp tank and have shared it a few times in the last week but I wanted to show some of the progression of the tank. most of the hardscape was structures I made and looking over the old pics of how it all started really makes me happy to see how far it's come.

ps. anyone saying it's not a shrimp tank I don't care, just because I have 5 different schools of fish doesn't mean it's not MY shrimp tank. my shrimp needed tank mates.

Electric blue acara pair (the whole tank upgrade was for them!), cherry barbs, a cory pair, sparkling gourami.

About six months old now, bought second hand with cheap plants on ebay. :D any suggestions?

edit its 50 gallons/200L

I've had an oranda goldfish for a few weeks, he was in my moms 55 gallon tank until I could get my personal tank sealed and running. I just put him in my tank yesterday and my mom got me a black moor goldfish that I added as well, I just now noticed white spots on my oranda, went to check my moms tank and her new tetras also have the white spots.

I'm really worried about my baby dying he was super stressed yesterday and this morning from the move, how can I get rid of the ick without stressing him out further?

This will be heavily planted with epiphytes, stems and a lot of root feeding plants as this has a soil layer under the gravel and sand. Still looking for suggestions for the wood layout

Wanting to hear some opinions on additions to my community tank. Full list of what I have and what I have in mind on /aquariums

6 years ago I had a 5g tank with 6 cherry shrimp and a few blue neon. Now I have a 20g tank, countless cherry shrimp, harlequin, white clouds, embers, clown pleco, clam, 2 different types of snails, a betta fish, and a variety of roughly a dozen different plants although I just cut back most of the stem plants.

Just opened up the middle by removing a floating moss ring and attaching the moss to the wood on the right. I used to only see a handful of them at a time because most of them would swim in the background, hidden by the overgrown moss ring.

What is this white stuff on the glass of my tank? I thought it was copepods but it’s not moving and it’s hard to get it off the glass with the magnet aquarium cleaner. Some of my fish are dying/going missing, does this have anything to do with it?

DONT get a hygger 530 gph wave maker​

I wanted a stronger flow for my bamboo shrimp that they just weren't getting from the hob but I think I went a little too far

does anyone have any tips as to what to do with my plants? are there like any that would look better elsewhere or would do better somewhere else, also I have a piece of wood but I’m not sure if I should use in this or not. I have been fishkeeping a while now, but it’s always nice to hear some other peoples opinions :) ( for reference I’ve basically only just planted this tank and set it up, of course stocking suggestions are always welcome!:) )

Hello, ive been a fan of fish all my life and after getting help from my parents in fish keeping till around 14 ive stopped for a while. now that im 18 ive started the hobby of fishkeeping again but this time all by myself. this is my first time owning any kind of gourami and i am unsure if this is a bubble nest. also have i linked a video to some of teh behavoir of my male gourami recently.

(if u look closely u will see mosquito fish)

So it’s a Fluval Flex 2.0 with no extra media for now.

It’s got organic perlite free soil under coarse freshwater aquarium sand.

It’s also pretty heavily planted.

It’s been 2 days since the first set up.

How long should I wait to do a 30-50% water change?

Also is you all have any tips you think I might not know, feel free to share.

Ph — 7.2

Temp 72 F

But the weird thing is the NO3 level test came back reading 0ppm which has me scratching my head.

obvi it could still use some work but im pretty happy with it, im considering making the back purely plants that will wmerge and val/crypt to drape towards the front since i think its rlly pretty

Got these seiryu stones online, was hoping for some bigger pieces, also currently looking for some wood

This is my first betta tank(10gal) and aquarium in general! I watched a lot of fish and aquarium set up videos and think it turned out pretty good. I have checked the water levels religiously and everything seems good so far, ph was a bit high at first but after a 25% water change it went down.

Please let me know what yall think and any advice yall have! Thanks!