What is the pitbull of fishes?

>>5078581
I'd guess piranhas have eaten more kids over the years in the amazon than sharks have everywhere else in the world, but if it's not piranhas then it's sharks.

>>5078580
Overstocked

>>5078580
Calling PITA on u

whats the recommended sized thread per anon? can we keep 20 anons in a thead this size?

>>5078791
We habe done this experiment on ur mum m8

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Since I moved the otos in this tank, the pigmies stay huddled next to them

>>5078872
They are friend shaped.

>>5078581
In terms of popularity among casual crowd and the willingness of fish shops to sell with minimal warning, I think angelfish might fit that category. But on second thought angelfish might be more analogous to something like a husky or german shepherd. Maybe Oscars.

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Life in Abundance - A documentary presented by the legendary aquarist Anonymous Flanders (aka the "Community tank Doctor").

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>>5078581
Tiger shark.

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Mag is starting to flesh out a little. Went for a wander today but seemed happy returning to its perch. I think the max mini I can't remove from said perch upset its foot.

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She chomky

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>>5078581
Dwarf gourami varients can be nasty as fuck and kill smaller fish and they seem to always be sold as community good boys.

>>5079086
now i finaly understand why they are called clownfish

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Kabachok

>>5078581
Piranhas. Dumb mexicans will buy them if they can so they can brag about having piranhas. Fortunately, the ones that do buy them are too stupid to understand tank requirements, the nitrogen cycle, etc. If the fish don't kill each other out of stress, they'll die from poor tank conditions. I guess you could say, they get filtered (har har har).

What fish would you put in an indoor pool?

>>5079157
I had one I liked him, one day his ass hid so good that I thought he jumped out of the tank and died but no he was just a ninja

the dave posted a 22 minute video on ramshorn snails. this is now the most comprehensive video about them on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HUfkJDlJ7I

Hi anons, I am currently in the process of moving my 12-inch albino tiger Oscar out of his 36 gallon grow-out to a new 75 gallon. He is blind, as he isn't able to eat without me splashing the surface or snapping the feeding tweezers together to get his attention, as well as ignoring any surplus feeder guppies I give him (there is approximately 2 fully grown females and about 3 dozen fry of various growth stages living among him). I was wondering if I would still be safe to house him with any other fish, particularly mid-sized schooling fish like silver dollars or roseline barbs, or perhaps a spiny eel of some sort?

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Uhh, does anyone else's fish watch tv when it's on?

Also any opinions on round fishbowls? I haven't measured it, but it would comfortably fit over my head like a cheesy astronaut helmet if the hole was a little bigger and the fish seem p. happy

>>5079565
If you like them aesthetically then they're fine but objectively there's no reason not to just get a cube tank with the same footprint and you get almost twice the volume. I personally don't like the distortion from bowls, rounded corners and flex tanks but Im just autistic.

>>5079338
several million shrimp

>>5078581
Oscars.

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This female Least killifish on the right's been thinner and had slightly paler colors than the other 3 for months now. Aside from those symptoms, she still eats a lot and even chases away the others for food. I tried an antiparasite treatment a while ago that didn't seem to do anything. Any ideas over what else it could be?

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>>5079665
Another shot of the same fish

>>5079193
At night, all you can hear is muffled honking and the sound of whipped cream being sprayed into paper pie dishes. Very annoying.

Im so fucking pissed and depressed right now. probably going to lose both of my chocolate cichlids tonight. I got a blue acara a couple weeks ago and everything was fine. then suddenly last week the acara had ich so I treated the tank (75 gallon) and it got worse but all the other fish were fine and had now ich. did a water change and treated again and it died, took it out. All the other fish were fine then today I got home and six of my plecos were dead and my chocolates were really stressed. did a big water change but I feel like that just stressed them more out and they look dead now. I dont care about anything in that tank but I dont want to lose my big chocolate cichlid. he was just getting to a good size after months of having him and has such a good personality.

I always have this cycle with cichlids where I add one fish to the tank, everything gets thrown out of control in a week and I lose everything and get depressed.

tank and stock:
>75g
>2 juvenile chocolate cichlids
>2 adult male super red bristlenose plecos
>a handful of juvenile super reds that I bred

>>5079571
>I personally don't like the distortion from bowls, rounded corners and flex tanks but Im just autistic
That's not autism. The vast majority of people in general don't like visual distortion. That's just biology.
>>5079672
While water changes (i.e. improving water quality) is usually the way to go, for ich I found just following directions of the medication is best. You need the fish to soak in the medication at a certain concentration for an extended period of time. You make it sound like you only medicated for a very short period.

>>5079676
well the only fish that had ich was the acara, and no one else started dying until a day or two after he did. I dont know why they are dying suddenly or why the acara got ich so suddenly when he was fine for the first two weeks

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Can you spot the amano?

Gonna set up two 5 gallon tanks for high grade cherry shrimp breeding, one blue tank and one red. I’ll also put assassin snails in one and purple mystery snails in the other for some easy money. I’m planning for a simple and clean setup to make nabbing the bastards easier. I’m thinking white sand, some moss balls of varying size, what’s a nice plant that won’t crowd the tank or give the shrimp too much space to hide that still will consume a good amount of nitrate?

>>5080561
guppy grass
assassin snails might kill shrimp

>>5080564
If a shrimp is dumb and slow enough to get eaten by a snail I don’t want it reproducing in my tank anyways

Any of you breed live food for your fishes?

>>5079689
Sometimes it do be like that. Anyway, probably best to stick to a full ich regimen (10-14 days) for the whole tank at this point. Last time I had it, what I did was did a massive water change first to make the water quality as good as possible BEFORE treatment, then started treatment. Keep in mind that both the major types of ich treatment lose efficacy pretty fast over time, hence why all directions say to re-dose after 24 hours, so consistency is important. I've actually tested this myself with Copper Power in a saltwater quarantine tank and a Hanna checker. It's pretty surprising how fast and how much it drops. Seems like the other medication, Methylene blue (what I use for freshwater), breaks down at a similar rate or even faster.
Anyway, good luck.

>>5080577
I used to do my own phyto and pods for my reef tank and brine shrimp for my baby apistogramma. The brine shrimp was super not worth it. Yields to get to adulthood were shit, took up way more space than just an egg hatchery, had to carefully clean out all the molted exoskeletons and shells all the damn time, surprisingly sensitive to parameter changes (they can live in a wide range of parameters, but they certainly won't breed in a wide range of parameters). Never again.
Phyto and pods were pretty fun though. I'll likely do it again in the future, especially when I finally get a dragonette.

>>5080577
White worms for my newts and very picky marine fish. All of them eat the worms, but my canary blenny will only eat worms, copperband only clams and worms, I've seen the mandarin eat tiny ones but usually only a couple then it's back to copepods and staring pensievely at small amphipods.
Sometimes I'll over-feed the culture before splitting them into new substrate and give my freshwater fish a feast, but I always keep two cultures alive in case one crashes.

>>5080696
I can't seem to get my white worms to breed or gather around food, they go to the bottom of the box, what's the trick? I feed them oats or cat food.

>>5080709
Unsure.
I keep my cultures in potting mix, damp but not wet. I feed them a blend of oats, bread, yoghurt, yeast, beans and blend that shit up into a resealable bag and freeze it, breaking off chunks when I feel like it. Some fish pellets every now and then. I fast them every other week to make sure they actually consume all the food.
I keep the lid partially ajar for air and to keep the humidity up, but they seem to do best between 12-18C.
I get them, I just dig a kebab stick in and 'plough' the substrate, the worms tend to collect on the stick and it helps turn the substrate over.

I've had a single culture last over 16 months and counting without replacing any of the substrate this way, whatever it is that I'm doing, it's working.

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>>5080561
okay decided im gonna get on the OE neo hype train and try to stabilize a line myself, r8 my shopping list

>15 Juvenile High Grade Neocaridina Blue Dream OE
>8 Assassin Snails
>5 Purple Mystery Snails
>2 6 gallon rimless cubes
>2 hygger lights
>2 hygger heaters
>2 ACO sponge filters
>1 ACO dual outlet air pump
>25ft airline tubing
>ACO Magic Small Fish Feed
>Bacter AE
>Hikari algae wafers
>ACO Root Tabs
>ACO easy green fertilizer
>White sand
>6 Marimo Moss Balls of varying sizes
>6 low clutter background plants, selecting at store, still open to suggestions
>API Quick Start
>Aquarium Stand

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I bought microworm and grindal wirm cultures from a local aquarist to make my little fish happy

ded hobby
ded thred

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>>5081310

My shrimp will clean it up

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made a 5 gal pea puffer tank. stuffed it with snails so they could eat the babies
unfortunately no puffers were around while recording

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>>5078912
The friendship grown strong

>>5081429
Weee

>20G Long
>Aquaclear50
>8 Zebra Danios
>4 Albino Corys
>3 Amano Shrimp
>1 Honey Gourami
AqAdvisor says I have room for more stuff, but I worry that the zebras are too spastic for another small school of mid-top swimmers. Is there anything that I should or could add to this setup?

>>5080577
I breed my fish to feed to my cat.

>>5081310
>ded hobby
not true. worldwide there must be millions of aquariums.
>ded thred
true. but why?

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Anyone got an idea why I often find my snails on their backs with open clap? They just chill like this for up to a day. Next day I check they are turned around and burrowed into the sand and then park like that for a day before moving again.
The store said they are thiara winteri and I had em for many months.

>>5081533
More honey gourami

>>5081665
when my ramshorns do this it usually means they're going to die in a week or so

>>5081533
Aqadvisor and similar sites are a bit of a meme, would stick to what you've got and just see how it plays out. Like you said, danios are very active and albinos will get a bit big for a 20gal (no actual issue as long as you have plenty of open sand). You're probably fine to get another few amanos

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>>5081749
how do you know it's the same snail? can you tell them apart and give them all names?

has anyone superglued little flags to their snails?

TEST

>>5080838
I finally had my first encounter with detritus worms a couple weeks ago not knowing what they were and went through the process of panicking about it until my fish ate all of them.

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What should I look into if I want to buy a camera to take better pictures of my fish and shrimp?

>>5082035
The camera isn't the issue. You could buy a pro DSLR or mirrorless camera for $5k and you'll still be taking shit pictures. The problems are generally lighting and reflections.
1) You may find your pictures to be blurry and think it's a camera problem. It's not. It's a low light problem. You may think your aquarium lights are really bright, but they are nothing compared to daylight, thus your phone is automatically increasing ISO (which adds noise) and lengthening shutter speed (which causes blur). Turn your tank lights all the way up and consider even supplementing it with other directed overhead lights (i.e. spotlights, not room lights and DEFINITELY NOT camera flash).
2) Turn off/shade all the ambient/room light in order to decrease reflections. This is tricky because of #1
3) Learn a little about focal distance. Pressing the camera may seem like a good idea to avoid reflections but your lens may not be able to focus on something that close, and you will invariably have greater geometric distortion shoving your face and phone up against the glass like an autist.
4) If you want to spend some money, get a polarization filter. This will cut out reflections quite a bit but there is a tradeoff of a bit of received light attenuation. It is well worth it though.
5) If you want to spend even more money, get a macro lens attachment for your camera (they're actually not very expensive for phones, mine came in a set with filters for reef tanks and it cost $30) and you should be able to get much closer to your subject without focus issues.
6) Clean your shit. REALLY CLEAN it. Make sure your glass is absolutely spotless. Do a big water change, make sure the glass is clean while the tank is drained, use water clarifiers. Whatever you can do to get absolutely clear water and glass, it will help immensely.

>>5082045
>>5082035
OOH, forgot to mention: 7) Don't freehand your camera. Preferably use a camera stand, but setting it up against a chair and books or whatever you can cobble together is fine. Similar to #1, you may think you're steady: you're not. The more your camera has to rely on picture stabilization, the higher chance your picture will come out like shit.
Also 8) You can always isolate your subject in a small box. It's super easy to take pictures of fish/inverts in a tiny water box, but then you won't have any scenery.

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>>5082035
I just bought a cheap clip on lens for my shitty smartphone camera and was pretty happy with the results compared to the blurry stuff I was getting before. You can spend thousands on cameras and stuff but I don't think you'll get a good outcome without a load of research. With the clip on there are limitations with focus distance but otherwise they turn out good.

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>>5082046
>Don't freehand camera
How else am I going to get shithouse shots?

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>>5082045
>>5082046
Thanks a lot for the advice I really appreciate it!
>>5082051
I just got one too because of this it was a good investment

>>5082275
Extremely colorful friend

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I got 10+ of these guys coming in the mail tomorrow for my heavily planted 20 gallon tank (it’s 6+ years old)
What I’m I in for?
>Mini Cambarellus texanus Crawdads
Otherwise known as “brazos crawfish”
They grow to about 1” each (can max out at 1.25”)

>>5081665
My mystery snail did that when it died
Rip

>>5080577
I bought like 20+ feeder guppies a year ago and stuck them in a 10 gallon and sort of just waited for them to grow. A bunch of them died initially (of course since I got them from a shitty store, and unfortunately) but after a while they bounced back. While I waited for them to replenish, I sort of got attached to them, so I started adding really nice colorful fancy guppies (like 1-2) every 6 months. Their offspring are pretty interesting to look at
Also there’s 2 marble self cloning crawfish in that 10 gallon with them, but they never bother the guppies since I feed them regularly

So to answer your question, no

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Magnifica found the back wall and decided to go walkies this week.
I suspect the mini carpet anemone was to blame, really.

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>>5082954

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Also peeped one of my crack noodles for the first time in months. Coming up 5 years old.
There were 4 out that night but too wily for me to snap.

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Are these endler fry or regular guppy fry?

>rearrange some plants, do some minor trimming
>diatoms all over the side panel
fuck I hate doing anything to the tank

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Has anyone ever had yellow slime mold growing on the sides of their aquarium? I wish I had it desu
It’s apparently super efficient at nutrient distribution across their colonies and they use them to map out highways in Japan allegedly
They look pretty neat
(Pic is not mine)

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>>5083111
>they use them to map out highways in Japan

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Snail tree
Merry Christmas

Does anyone know where petco/imagination source their betta fish from? I saw online that there was speculation of them shipping from Thailand
Just curious. I have a sorority mostly made up of female bettas I got as babies from petco and a few from LFS as well
They get along since the tank is old and fully planted with tons of hides and moss
Some of the bettas I got from petco were actually really colorful and healthy, only 1 loss (they cost like $2-3 per baby)

>>5083308
From what I gather, and it's been years since I looked into this so this could have changed multiple times, the source varies store to store, season to season, but most come from Thailand commercial breeders.
Even the ones from "US" companies aren't really US-bred fish. E.G. Tropical Fish International is a """Californian""" company but really they're just an importer getting their fish from Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia. TFI was one of Petco's major suppliers before they acquired LiveAquaria. But then of course Petco sold off LiveAquaria to TFI, and now LiveAquaria has filed for bankruptcy.
But each store has some amount of agency, so they may use corporate partners (such as TFI) or they may source their own. For instance mine (in the DMV area) occasionally buys from the same source as an LFS that's one block away.

Side note unrelated to Petco: LiveAquaria keeps trying to put up a front that everything is okay and they are simply restructuring: this is bullshit. The court docs are available to the public. They are trying to look like they're still good because they have asked the courts to unfreeze their assets (the fish) so they can sell them ASAP before they all die and/or their upkeep gets them further into debt. They are liquidating 100% of their stuff. Don't go looking for a deep discount though, because they are attempting to cover debts.
However this does mean that if you buy something from them, you are still going to get it. Just don't expect good customer service and don't expect fish to restock if you miss the chance to get it.

A new betta fish in my tank is mouth breathing a bunch
The rest are doing ok. I’m assuming she’s just in shock (I got her a few days ago) and will recover?
Lots hides and bubblers and plants

>>5083350
Oh and she constantly nibbles at the mulm later for little critters despite being well fed (her belly is slightly chubby from blood worms I gave her earlier)

>>5083350
>>5083351
If she continues to get fatter, consider treating her as having constipation (epsom salt bath and blanched peas). I've seen constipated fat fish sometime still hungry for the first few days before things go downhill.

>Two bettas have what looks like fin rot on two different fins
>First betta has it on tail, second on dorsal fin
>Start medicated food with kanamycin December 2
>Fast forward today
>Betta with dorsal fin almost completely grown back
>Betta with tail fin still looks ragged with no progress
I don't get it

>>5083733
Any chance if it getting picked on (exacerbating the infection)? Weakened fish are often bullied far more than healthy fish.

>>5083745
Both fish are in 5.5 gallons all to themselves. Only thing in the betta's tank with the bad tail fin is a single Amano shrimp and a nerite snail.
Both fish are also still very active and voracious eaters, so they only looked like superficial infections. None of the other fins aside from the tail look torn up

just pulled out my large sponge filter from 75 gal community tank
usually i clean it in a bucket and use the water for plants
couldn't help but notice a bunch of fish fry when i dropped it in the bucket
turns out it as dozens of shrimp! i'm thrilled. but how do i get the shrimp out without just dumping all the debris i was trying to remove back in?

>>5082955
What size tank?

>>5084088
Fine mesh filter maybe? It'd be hard to get the exact size. As long as it's nylon mesh and not felt and less than 1000 micron, it'd probably work.

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>>5084127
6x2x2, 45gal sump.
"180 + 40".

>>5080577
Scuds. I have two plastic containers filled with tank water, moss, and other trimmings and leave it on the windowsill. Multiply quick and I only occasionally throw in blanched vegetables/fish flakes.
Love watching my rummynose tetras chase after and hunt for them around the tank.

>>5083290
Based Calci-Claus.

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Is it hard to get ghost shrimp to breed in an established community tank?
Mine has tons of hidey spots despite the presence of bettas and tons of other critters
I got a dozen of them who were surprisingly in good shape (it was from a richfag LFS) and they’re doing their thing rn
>pic is not my tank, just a generic google image for attention, thanks

>>5084128
that would also collect all the detritus i want removed
i found a print file for a shrimp trap so ima try that
>>5084270
i've been sad about not seeing my shrimp but they're just stealthy fucks. if i move around the java fern, wood closets, apparently fuckin sponge filter they are definitely there

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I want to completely overhaul my tank to try and get rid of black beard algae, which I think is due to dissolved organics. I set it up with a gravel substrate because I didn't know any better at the time, and I think mulm and waste are accumulating in the gravel which I can't gravel-vac because the tank is so heavily planted.
How can I get all of my malaysian trumpet snails out of the substrate though? There are dozens, and they bury themselves most of the time. Can I lure them somehow?
Pic shows the contrast between a new anubias leaf and one that is infested with black algae. I know that you can apparently spot-treat with "liquid carbon" to remove it, but I feel like that's treating the symptoms and not the cause

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>>5084318
My main “problem hiders” are my brazos crawfish. I posted earlier itt
I got 10 of them (all in great shape in the mail) and I saw them maybe on the first day, but it’s been a few since they arrived and I haven’t seen them at all lul. I actually see my ghost shrimp a lot more
Pic rel is one of my 10 in their bag
I got them all for like $9 because I got a shit ton of Amazon gift cards from work

>>5084337
>How can I get all of my malaysian trumpet snails out of the substrate though?
Why do you care? As long as you have a couple they will quickly repopulate. And if your goal is to reduce dissolved organics/mulm, your system wouldn't have enough nutrients to keep your current population alive anyway, unless you continue overfeeding in which case you would be back to BBA issues.
Don't be an autist. Ignore the snails. They'll bounce back.

>>5084337
>>5084344
You could always get dwarf loaches too. They JUST snails of all types. But the dwarf chain loaches cost like fucking $22 each where I’m at and you need a group of them for them to be happy
Otherwise you can try with pea puffers but they struggle to kill MTS

Why do some betta fish end up being fatter than others? Lol
I usually have to schedule my feedings around my fattest ones (ie prevent them from literally eating to death)
The others have to wait in them

>>5084344
>Why do you care? As long as you have a couple they will quickly repopulate
I don't want to just throw them out with the trash and condemn them to death, that seems immoral

How horrible are scuds for a planted tank? Truly, I mean
I see some people say “HOLY SHIT THEY KILLED ALL MY MOSS AND WISTERIA” and others on YouTube saying “meh, I’ve had them and my plants are not really hurt” (Phillips fish works being a notable YouTuber for that stance)

>>5084449
As long as you're heavily planted and established you're never going to have major issues. The problem is most people don't really know what heavily planted means.

>>5079666
Just checked in on them this morning and found her carcass on the substrate, so that's that. The other three still look healthy with full bellies.
>Captcha: CUKD

>>5084337
I find that they are very attracted to algae wafers
But to get every single one i dont know if that's realistic

>>5079665
>>5079666
>>5084467
I started out with 10 females a few years back and now I’ve got hundreds of them in my tanks. Babies every day (no exaggeration)
None of the betta fish they live with even bother them either, probably because of all of the plants and roots

>>5084480
She was thin for several months before ultimately dying, so I can't help but wonder if it was mycobacteriosis

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I just heard weird noises from my air pump. Upon closer inspection it was because my mystery snail climbed on to the air stone and got launched to the surface. Same as webm related but in snail form.

>>5084632
>that webm
>I'll just throw random ass shit in the tank.

>>5084632
>snibble snibble WWEEEEEE:DD
based crabbo

>>5084641
Literally me

I am tired of my ugly aquarium and I just want all fishes to die, I only do minimum maintenance and feed them, I don't enjoy this anymore. Any advice?

>>5084790
Stop feeding them and only top off evaporation. See how long they can last and document it.

>>5084797
Based Unit 731 successor
Jk, not based at all

Goldfish are slept on. Mine's as big as my hand and will swallow pinkie mice whole.

My dwarf crayfish are mating already
Super hyped
Doubt a majority of their babies are going to make it though, since tons of other fish live in that community tank, but I’m sure some will make it (tons of plants, holes in rocks and driftwood, moss, etc)

>>5084837
As a side note, brazos dwarf crayfish are super rapey when they mate kek

>>5084790
Give the fish to a LFS. Clean out the tank and sell/give it away.

>>5085180
>Give the fish to a LFS

don't they just flush donated fish as soon as the donor leaves the store? Why would they risk bringing in contamination?

>>5084837
Do they fuck doggy style or face to face?

>>5085209
Face to face
The male just pounced from above during feeding time, flipped her and then did his thing
They were like that for at least half an hour

>>5085197
Depends how scummy your LFS is. Normal ones put them in an observation tank (a.k.a. quarantine) if they are fish they think can be sold. They risk contamination every time they have a shipment of fish, which is often weekly, so that is something they should be well-equipped to deal with.
I have done this personally when I was super tired of dealing with livebearers. I saw my fish being sold two weeks later at a ridiculous markup (many had unique patterns that I knew very well, so I know for a fact those were the fish I gave them).
>store credit
For those "common" fish, they didn't offer store credit (mollies). They have given me credit/cash for more valuable things, like coral and anemone.

My self cloning crayfish (marmokrebs) had babbies in my tank
It’s pretty based
I just randomly checked on it, and saw something that looked like a ghost shrimp and was like “wtf” and then realized what it was lol
Can’t wait to toss a bunch of these in my future backyard pond

>>5085294
>future backyard pond
*indoor pond
Whoops

I had 2 assassin snails but I separated them 4-6 months ago. Now I recently checked the breeder thank that the other one was put in and there are already tiny baby assassin snails in it. The main tank I have doesn't have any babies.

I have a bunch of female bettas living with a single male in a heavily planted tank with tons of other critters in it
One of my galaxy koi™ females constantly shoots eggs out in secluded spots but never seems interested in the male she shares a tank with
Not sure what the deal with that is

>>5078579
Whats the difference between prawns and shrimp? Just size?

>>5085561
Prawns are extremely voracious and aggro (a lot more hardier too)
They grow massive too
>t first pet invert was from a bag of feeder prawns when I was a babby
I started out with 12 of them, and then 1 just ate the others (I fed them a bunch too, they were in a 120 gallon with lots of rocks too)
The survivor was a big boi who would run around the tank like a little serial killer
This was in the early 2000s and my dad wanted a cheap pet and did no research

Dogfish, by a country mile. Piranhas and every other shark or fish is a normal bloke compared to those awful cunts.

>tfw it’s 11 pm where im at
>the bumble bee catfish come out to play while all the diurnal fish sleep
>ghost shrimp are super active
We peak chilling here

I want to start a saltwater/reef aquarium but the amount of knowledge online is intimidating. Does anyone have a good resource of an easily digestible way of getting started with saltwater? I have a dozen freshwater aquariums but saltwater continually seems too complex for me. I have a 20g long with an AIO that I'd like to make into a reef aquarium.

>>5085717
SerpaDesign (YouTuber/eceleb) has a video series on starting one
He did freshwater/planted tanks for many years and then transitioned to saltwater

Giant black piranha is the closest thing to a "pitbull" in the form of a fish, extremely aggresssive with an insane shearing bite they are demon fish dude people feed those monsters ANYTHING and they always go until someone dies or is eaten

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My sword has grown straight up and is seemingly trying to root at the waterline. Can I cut the shoot and bury it in the soil or will that just kill it? I’m pleased to have any growth because I’ve had trouble with swords in the past.

>>5085870
yes

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>>5085717
It's as easy or complicated as you want to make it. With an AIO, a simple intro LED, water changes and RODI will easily get you into it enough to decide if it's your thing.
It is a money pit, though, there's no getting around that.
Serpa is an ok dude, I think FragboxTV did some AIO focused videos since they're selling them. Reef Beef are a good place to binge some vids to remind you that you don't have to be a consumerist slut to be successful, but they don't make 'how to' videos. They do have a free discord though with a pretty chill and very knowledgeable userbase.

Thinking about getting back into fishkeeping (single tank)
20 gal long and shallow, probably have to custom make one as it's hard to find aquariums around here, heater, pump, topsoil substrate, sand on top, couple rocks, plants that are extremely hardy and grow well and some corydoras, tetras or danios and maybe one or two interesting weird fish that are small and fit in. Oh and shrimp/snail crew for maintenance.

>>5086112
nice blog
i'm also looking at just diying my own tanks in the future, new ones are expensive af and used ones are always scratched
though did just get a 75G blackfriday petsmart tank for $150 which is awesome
it doesn't look that hard to diy em and is definitely insanely cheaper

anyway my question. i made a nano tank for pea puffers, it's a long <5G plastic tank I got off temu for like $20
i got 4 puffers, 2 amano shrimp, and started with like 50 snails and uh... the shrimp are gucci :)
anyway, all my other tanks are big and i tried transplanting amazon swords and java grass but they're just way too big
my java moss, anubias, and dwarf grass are fitting fine but I could use recommendations for some fluffy petitite plants for a nano

also only 1/4 is eating bloodworms, i have infinite snails from my other tanks but any suggestions what type of feed might work?

inb4 'you need 3 gal per pea'
they're fine

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also i have a 10G HEAVILY planted tank i started with like 6 fancy guppies, shrimp, snails (puffer foods)
i also inherited two platty with a tank buy (left for dead) and have been dumping fry from my community tank in there

there are now like 80 guppy fry and i've had to quadrouple feeding

what the fuck do you do? sell em on marketplace, LFS, get a bass or oscar?

pic is newly setup 75G. i've been looking at an inherited scratched mess for months...

>2 pea puffers in tank who are super rotund
>snails still everywhere
>ghost shrimp have been alive long enough to breed
My feed schedule of blood worms saves lives

Are there any nano fish with longer lifespans? 5 years being the minimum lifespan here.

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>>5086363
I have a least killifish colony
Although they live for 3 years, they will reproduce a bunch. Unlike guppies though, the females hold their fry and give birth when the coast is clear
Mine live with a sorority of bettas (+ 1 male) and they are still quite plentiful. Just get tons of wisteria and use pothos or monstera for max roots
They will exist in your tank indefinitely desu. I have had mine for 4 years and it’s loaded with them. I add 5-10 every 2 years to prevent inbreeding

>>5086363
If you’re willing to do saltwater, clownfish can live for 20+ years, clown gobies can live 7 to 12 years, filefish live 5 to 10+,and damsels can live 5 to 15, depending on species. If you want long living fish that can survive well in a smaller aquarium, salt is probably the way to go.

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>>5086173
>HEAVILY planted
He clearly has never seen Holland.

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>>5086450
obviously the first pic wasn't the 10G i was referring to as heavily planted
just mowed this down and removed some grass from the front section

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i'm thinking about getting a fish
emphasis on "a" fish - just the one
any other kool fish that can do well solo in a small tank (probably either a 5g or 10g) besides the betta fish? i like the betta but am just looking for other options
i was thinking of a pea puffer but i read they can be neurotic and stressed when alone poor guys

>>5086702
scarlet badis

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My almost 4 months old 33g /125l tank, my first fish tank. Video is taken right during feeding hence the little crumps dropping down the water.
Currently stocked with 7 panda corys, 10 espei rasbora, 12 blue dream neocaridina and they their dozens of offsprings as well als ramhorn and bladders snails.

I think the plants have grown enough to add the final fish species, honey gouramis, into the tank. I'm thinking of either a pair or a little harem (1 male, 2 female), what group size would be better, I have read arguments in favor of both options.

>>5087075
gud jungle

>>5087075
the gouramis might eat your shrimp
hat tank is super lightly stocked, so i say a harem

>>5086170
Well I'd show a pic but I'm still in the stage of finding a nice flat piece of furniture to put it on. Got a quote for the glass, not great not terrible. I assume the cheap Petsmart tanks will at least hold water fine...

>>5085238
A scummy lfs wont give you store credit for fish you bring in. If they simply take the fish without giving youstore credit they are scumbags because all fish can be sold unless really old ;^)

>>5085732
>SerpaDesign is an eceleb
lol
>transitioned to saltwater
lmao, even
he posted a whopping TWO videos of his ONE reef tank, which is full of xenia.

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>>5087349
>t

>>5087349
It was just the one building and the one followup right? I think like half of his stock died despite DA FRITZ and all the Tidal 'freebies'.

I quite like Fish Shop Matt's vids, he's done some on setting up a saltwater tank recently and unlike MD (whose channel he used to appear on) he doesn't seem to have such a big ego.

>>5087478
What kind of fish is that?

>>5087613
Zoomiloach

>tfw marmokreb (self cloning crayfish) already has 3 babies that reached 1 inch in tank
I got her like 2 weeks ago. It’s spooky how fast they reproduce. My cichlids are going to be very happy with their new feeders kek

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The mothership

going to replace my entire aquarium substrate, swapping from gravel to sand. Is it worth putting a layer of organic potting mix under the sand for my rooted plants (cryptocoryne wendtii)?
I'm hoping that moving away from gravel will result in a less mulmy substrate, as I will have plenty of snails to churn the sand up. I've also heard that cories prefer to dig in sand rather than gravel.

>>5087840
I have a deep layer of sand (coarse, though) for my crypts and they spawn like crazy.
No potting mix needed.

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>>5087075
BEHOLD: Feesh.

Got a small harem yesterday (2 females, 1 male). The males seems to be most skittish of the 3 so far, but seems to be pretty chill, saw him chase on of the females only once so far and the tank has plenty of hiding spots.

I really like how gracefull and inquisitve they swim through the tank compared to corys and rasbora. I have also noticed that the rasboras swim more chill since the gouramis arrived, seems to give them more security.

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>>5087934
Close-up of one of the females inspecting the shrimps.

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>>5086702
Look into Gouramis

>>5087934
I hope you have better luck than I do, I somehow ended up with the most cantankerous honey gourami ever and he bullied both his girlfriends to death

>>5087996
based evilmaxxing volcel gourami

>>5087840
The initial few months of growth from a potting mix is really fun, but otherwise if you're having reservations, feel free to skip it.

On the topic of gouramis, I got another opaline to replace the one I lost who was an angel, but that may have been tempting fate. This one’s a dick and seems to be chasing the others whenever I look.

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>calls your fish tank shit
>gets millions of views while doing so
>refuses to elaborate
He is the best eceleb for this hobby, bar none

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>>5078579
is 30C water too hot for guppies?
I live in a shithole without AC. maybe do some water changes when its too hot?
fuck

>>5079672
Next time whether you dose or not, salt the shit out of the tank. 1tsp for each g. Then slowly lower the salinity back to 0 on your water changes (use lower dose of salt for a few weeks, then none). It doesn't have to be from the fish store, as long as it's iodine free, pure NaCl.

I've found if the fish are moderately healthy and/or have had ich before, they brush it off easy enough, no meds. I've always had inverts in the tank so I don't dose. If it was fish only I would do both the salt and dose.

>>5080756
>Wants to breed neocaridina shrimp
>puts other shit in the tank

Make your breeding space different than your display tank. I would also go with 5 gallons instead of 6 gallons. 5 gallons are much cheaper and a better shape. Use the 6 gallon for a display tank with your snails and sand.

Sand and gravel looks nicer but in a breeder tank it's one more pain in the butt. Way easier to clean bare bottom. Do toss in java moss. Moss balls lose their shaoe and fall apart. Local fish store will probably have a bunch of crypto, anubias, amd java ferns. Grab the java ferns. Anubias float if they aren't attached. Java ferns sink and they are cooler. Hornwort is the best if you can get it. Get duckweed as well if you can. Duckweed maintenance is way overblown and it cleans the tank well.

Don't skimp on the cycle either. If you can't wait a couple weeks for the tank to cycle correctly, breeding isn't for you.

>>5088217
This question gets asked every summer. Here are literally all the answers we go through every goddamn year:
The cheapest effective way to consistently have lower temps is to have a fan blow directly on the surface of the water. The evaporation will drop your temp below room temp due to the phase change between liquid to gas taking energy (this is how phase change coolers for things like high performance computers work, except they keep it in a closed loop and often use more exotic liquids). There are cheapo clip on solutions specifically made for aquariums or you can just use a desk fan or something. This does increase evaporation so you will need to top off more often, and if you don't do water changes regularly, you should top off with RODI/distilled water to avoid TDS creep.
Water changes also work but you're going to be constantly doing a lot of fucking work and the temp is going to continuously swing.
Ice in the tank is dumb and people who think it's effective are dumb, unless you have a very tiny tank and use a relative shitload and constantly do it. I go through the math of this every goddamn year so I will not be doing it until May at the earliest. Feel free to treat this as a
>it is left to the student to prove
exercise.
Chillers are expensive, even homemade ones can be fairly costly, but this is obviously the most effective option if you need to do a big, consistent temp swing. I'm talking hundreds of dollars. Generally not worth for small tanks.

>>5088292
oh so no issue on running the tank without the cover/lid?

>>5088294
Oh no. There's definitely trade-offs. Some people do it because it just looks better and you can potentially get slightly better PAR for your plants.
Downside is more evaporation (which is what you want anyway, but under normal circumstances this is not ideal), contaminants will collect in your tank more (dust, grease if your kitchen is nearby, etc), and the most important one: some fish jump and will seppuku.
Reefers tend to have mesh tops to have both an open top while protecting their fish, but that can be costly for a nice setup and also risky as if you get mesh too large, fish can still get caught in it.
Egg crate light diffusers from some place like Home Depot is a super cheapo alternative, but you don't have a whole lot of choice in grid spacing.

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>bought 12 feeder guppies 5 year ago and put them in 10 gallon tank to see how they would do
>none die, do extremely well
>they increase in numbers over the years but I manage feedings to prevent overpopulation
>current generation is many gens born into that tank
>realize that they are probably inbred despite doing well and healthy
>introduce a few really colorful fancy males in there
>they live for like a week max and then die
wtf lol, I guess the feeders are just bulletproof proof due to having wild/generalist genes. The males managed to pork some females during that week, so I’m hoping the resulting babbies that will be born won’t be bitch made and will be able to be a bit varied. Will try again in a few months

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>>5088297
I also wonder about inbreeding, all of my neocaridina shrimp are descended from a group of 7 that I bought 2 years ago, they're many generations in by now

>>5088211
is that unca rodgjea? why you keep your fish tank haya!
if you increase the temp for your fish and add msg do you get pho? fuyol!

>>5088315
I heard that with inverts it’s not that bad
I have some marmokrebs (self cloning all female species) and did some research on them out of curiosity and found out that crustaceans in general can tank genetic deformities better than most living creatures out there. That’s how the marmokrebs descended from the Texas Slough Crayfish species, apparently the first female in 1995 was born from a normal female slough and a male slough whose sperm contained both female AND male dna. Normally that would create a horribly deformed offspring, but instead it created a super cloner

Anyways, I’ll be referring to those colorful guppies being lost as “the great JUSTing of 2025”
{happy new years btw}

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>$2k on a 150 gallon tank
>Bay snook $30/ each
>can have sex with a live fish any time I want
Is there anything else I need to consider

Happy New Year /aqg/, have any projects in mind for 2026? For me, get more into breeding, set up a brackish tank, and sort out my own white worm, baby artemia, and daphnia live food supply's to cut costs down

>>5088395
>any projects in mind for 2026?
full aquarium overhaul - new substrate, re-position plants, rocks, etc.
I'm debating whether to do it now with my new year's day hangover, or leave it till the weekend......

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>>5088418 (me)
Actually I decided not to do it today, perhaps I'll post my plan here and you anons can tell me if I'm about to do something stupid. Nitrate, nitrite and ammonia are all undetectable in my tank, and the fish seem healthy, but aesthetically it looks awful. I struggle with slightly cloudy water and algae (black, hair algae and algae on the glass). My theory is that the combination of lots of plants and a coarse gravel substrate mean there are lots of nooks and crannies where food waste can build up and doesn't get cleaned by the shrimp/snails, leading to high dissolved organics.

My decision to try and mix sand and gravel areas was really stupid, and you can see that the white sand gets "contaminated" as gravel gets mixed into it as the fish move it round. So here is my plan:

- replace substrate with fine black sand on top of a layer of potting mix
- aggressively cut back all the plants and remove any leaves with black algae on them
- re-plant cryptocorynes in substrate
- java ferns elsewhere (they are already attached to decor rocks/wood)
- remove java moss which seems to accumulate debris and always has hair algae growing on it
- remove all pothos plants growing out the top (the tank is so lightly stocked that I don't really think I need them to remove waste, and I don't love how the roots look growing down into the tank)
- make a better layout with more foreground space

It will take a good few hours but I plan to do the whole operation in a day.

>>5088395
Considering giving away my brass tetras and putting a native species in my 28 gallon instead

>>5088395
More than there are stars in the sky. In my free time I draw up plans for racks I want to build.

>realistic for 2026
I accidentally created thriving freshwater copepod and bladder snail colonies in jars. Now I want to do something with them.

I'm leaning heavily towards a pea puffer colony in a 29g. I would like to create a rack where the tank sits on top, then I can have space for a bunch of 5g buckets below to breed the live food.

>build a 32 inch wide shelf for the 29g (30")
>24" deep to accommodate 4 5g buckets (12' each).

I was going to build it out of 2x4 and 3/4 plywood. 300lb should be fine, but I'll frame it and put a cross beam anyway. The under shelf will sit on joists because that's way easier. 1/2 plywood paneling to stabilize it.

I don't have a covered work area so Ineed to wait for snow.to clear.

Alternatively, what do you think about cinderblock and plywood shelving? Is that too ghetto? Even if I paint it?

started feeding brine shrimp to my tank for the first time, always just done flakes
they are WAY more friendly and fearless now when anybody approaches the tank

I notcied earlier today when I was plant trimming and they were swimming around the scissors and my hand, usually they all flee to opposite side
Then later just standing next to the tank talking to girl and ALL THE FISH were there expetently

neat

>>5088551
>standing next to the tank talking to girl
doubt

>>5088572
Sir, this is not a porn board
Go to /pol/ if you want more (you)s from angry incels that hate chicks

>>5088572
I’m not sure this woman is 18

Is the FBI going to come kill my dog?

>>5088576
That is a suspiciously flat chest now that you mention it. Maybe he is underage too, since who tf posts vids of their gf’s on a Mongolian tapestry forum lul

>tfw the sus vid got delete
Woah
Were the allegations true?
Craziest thing that has happened on /an/ in 2026 and it is only January 1st lol
I thought this board was boring GUESS NOT

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>>5088582
>blue board deletes nsfw post
crazy how that works huh

>>5088584
The question is why would a retard post this to begin with on /an/ of all places
Trashy ass couple at best

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>>5088585
The people of Alabama are mysterious and enigmatic
But it’s good to know that between posting vids of their gfs boobs for random anons to look at, they still are a part of our esteemed hobby of fish keeping

>>5088579
My wife is 25 and pretty flat but yknow, when they’re out of their teens, even flat ones sag a bit.

>>5088603
I hope your wife’s son is doing ok

>>5088582
>fish keepers are cuckolds who share vids of their gf for other men to wank to
Great thread you got fags
>t /herp/ chad

>>5088609
Oh, she has a penis. Sorry I forgot to mention.

Fucking kek. Heard about this from /tv/. Fishfags are nonces = confirmed

Guys, /tv/ is here. (And they are laughing at us ;_;)
Fucking cucks ruining this hobby

>>5088620
>for you

*insert bane meme for boomers*

>>5088619
>nonces

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Wtf is going on in here, I thought I was in the wrong thread?

Anyways here's my white wirm colony starting to take off.

>>5088672
>Wtf is going on
Some guy posted cringe and everyone else roasted him, I guess word spread on another board and they joined in on the fun idk
Nice wurmies

>>5088586
>alabama
That was his sister anon

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tank rebuild is underway and I have a box of snails that emerged from the plants
Doesn't it hurt them to pick them up from a smooth substrate they are stuck to, though? How am I gonna get them back in the tank

>>5088584
>posting nsfw on /aqg/
Do retards really

>>5088718
they are very hardy, they will be fine

>>5088575
>>5088576
>>5088582
did Flanders post a pic of his new "wife"?

>>5088794
I don’t think that was him
Some guy (who is probably not even 20 years old yet) decided to shoehorn in the fact that he has a gf in an earlier post. Some other anon said “doubt” and then the og retard posted a webm of him playing with her (nonexistent) tits.
That’s about it really. I agree with the other guy, dude is probably from Alabama

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>>5088793
I've been giving them a nudge to prompt them to detach from the surface before I pick them up, and they seem OK. I dumped all the old tank substrate in a box with some water and, as expected, all the snails are emerging like a horde of zombies. I'm amazed at how many there were, dozens and dozens in a 30 gal tank.
I'm going to just keep this box to hand and periodically repatriate handfuls of snails as I see them

>>5088619
>>5088620
link to the /tv/ post? i'll go spam red platties in there.
>>5088845
>dude is probably from Alabama
alabama is that shithole where those animals had a brawl over some illegally parked boat, right?

>>5088718
Bruh, just yesterday I picked half a glass of snails from my coldwater tank and I dumped them in my tropical community tank, no acclimation, nothing.
Today they were crawling around, pretty sure they already started fucking already, to clone each other some more.
Bladder/ramshorn/malaysian trumpet snails can survive and thrive during the apocalypse.

>>5088862
I was on that thread by coincidence
It got deleted. Idk how that even got brought up on /tv/ of all places kek.
https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/217054918/#q217055091
I was there to shit talk the Fallout tv series and then randomly came across this and I was like “woah, /an/ mentioned”
One guy found the vid of the flat bitch and shared a webm link from some obscure archive site, and some other anons there watched it and were like “what a cuckold”

>>5088864
>>5088718
>>5088793
I had to move a tank I took apart once in my garage, and I think an MTS was there for like a solid 4 days without water
I went back to check in my dubia roach colony (I keep lizords too bruh) and I see something at the bottom of what I thought was a clear and cleaned tank. It was a very large MTS shell
On a whim I tossed the little guy in a bowl of dechlorinated water, and within minutes the guy (girl I guess) starts moving
I was like “holy shit”

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>>5088865
>shit talk the Fallout tv series
i mean, we can make fun of /tv/ here, too. the main character in that tv series looks like picrel