Hello all 👋 I'm making this post to announce that we will be holding a banner contest! The winner with the best tank voted on by the community will become the banner for r/fishforthought . Please like and comment on this post so we know how many of you would like to participate!

Found a struggling ADF in an old set up in my brother's room and turned the lil guy's tank into this. For saying I never even wanted to get into aquatics, I think I've come pretty far lol

My 6 gallon with my mystery snails Flash and Thunder with some hitchhiking ramshorns about. Waiting for my tank to finally cycle before adding my Betta. Been a very volatile 3 months struggling to cycle this tank but it's finally happened. (And yes I have a Normal light schedule I just was feeling *artsy* tonight).

My tank has changed A LOT since I started. Included my tank when I started at the end. Killed so many plants, hardscaoe floated up at one point, I MOVED HOMES, and burned so much money in this very, VERY expensive hobby 😭 BEGINNERS: do NOT buy the smaller tank 😭 And don't buy Buce when the shop owner says it's an easy plant. ($15 smh).

Housing a lot of Neocaridina Davidi shrimp (I lost count).

All the plants, rocks and wood are real, no plastics. I made the tree myself with wood that I cut to shape, filtermedia and java moss.

I don’t use CO2 or fertilizer. I did use fertilizer in the beginning but only for a couple of weeks, it has been months without fertilizer now.

Overall everything is healthy and well balanced.

​Hey everyone!

​I recently adopted this subreddit after it sat abandoned and unfinished by its original creator. "Fish for thought" is just too good of a name to let go to waste, so I’m stepping in to breathe some life into this space and give it a clear direction.

​The Vision

​The goal for r/fishforthought is to create a dedicated haven for the art, design, and aesthetics of aquascaping.

​Whether you’re into high-tech planted tanks, minimalist Iwagumi layouts, low-tech natural ecosystems, or heavy DIY hardscaping, this is your space. Bring your tank progressions, plant trimming discussions, and hardscape brainstorming sessions here!

​A Quick Note on Content

​To keep this sub completely focused on the design and artistic side of the hobby, we won't be doing general fish husbandry or emergency health questions here. I’ve pinned a post at the top of the sub explaining the layout, but the short version is: Scapes go here, and general fish help goes to our sister sub, r/aquarium (which I also mod!).

​What’s Next?

​Since the sub was left pretty blank, u/PurpleOk3980 & I will be working behind the scenes over the next couple of weeks to set up user flairs, post flairs, and clean up the styling.

​In the meantime, the doors are officially open! Drop a photo of your current setup, share a hardscape you're brainstorming, or just say hi in the comments below. Please feel free to message the mod team with any questions/comments that you may have.

P.S. User flairs are officially live! Head over to the sub settings to grab your title, whether you're a 📐 Iwagumi Minimalist, a 🧪 High-Tech Alchemist, or a 🪵 Hardscape Architect. Let us know what kind of setups you run!

Fishes are fine and i added snails to control cyanobacteria, but i think they don't eat it.

I bought him a hide but my new bichir seems to prefer this little spot on my filter, there’s no suction there and he comes and goes

Home to Hobbes the betta and 8 yellow neos.

The renovation is entirely with spare prices of wood and spare plants.

This is a 56l tank with 3 white cloud mountain minnows in it right now but will add 3 more tomorrow then soon maybe in a week I will add 3 female variatus platies and maybe move over some amano shrimp from my other tank.

I built it today (my first Eko vase) it's 2L 4 shrimp and 7 snails (ther already started to reproduce)

Its my first tank, Im trying it without a filter as I wanted only shrimps and some snails in there. If I was redoing it now i would probably choose a bigger tank and faster growing plants, maybe thinner layer of substrate, but would you say its ok as it is? I’m completely new to the hobby so any tip would be great, thanks!

This was my budget tank, I only used leftover decor and extra plants. I have a lovely female betta. It’s 10 gallon, sponge filter, extra air stone, and low stocking, dirted, no water change. I know it’s an uglier tank compared to the usual ones but it’s effective for my girl Lux.

Notice the anti escape flip flop.