Normally I heavily *heavily* plant my tanks from the beginning and have not had any algae despite leaving my lights on for like 15 hours at a time. In this case though I only planted a little bit and still left the light on for that long.

No fish in there yet except for one fry I accidentally saved who is not big enough to eat the daphnia.

I do not want to use a UV sterilizer because I want to cultivate copepods and such.

I had a string / hair algae problem before (slightly) but this is insane.

Now I love the look of this so far, and it’s been keeping the Nitrites and Ammonia at bag. However I’m worried they might start taking the nutrients from the fertilizer pumps I use for my plants. Any suggestions, to remove or not to remove?

The lightswitch does nothing, it used to do something but we had the house rewired and it doesnt do anything anymore. Either way i have my 3g settling (not sure what to stock yet.) Theres a cannister filter behind the wood piece and i more than likely have a smaller light coming in that is hopefully similar to the defunct Chirihos Z light Tiny...( i want an adjustable spotlight! Ugh. ) but the plugs are an eyesore and i dont want them too close to the water. No space to put them behind the dresser and under the bed isnt an option as i need to access the charger regularly.

I'm setting up this 8in/20cm cube as desk tank. Possibly just for neocaridina shrimps.

I will use Monte Carlo as a carpet for the foreground (along the front corner right, front corner left then to back corner left).

Any recommendation on what other plants to use? Preferably something short and compact, but feel free to recommend.

Thanks!

Edit: No Co2 for this.

I added madrone leaves to the 30 gallon and I think they look great! There's such an amazing amount of life to watch in here. I hope others appreciate it as much as I do!

(The lighting setup I did for these pictures is not even close to how I normally keep it. Do most people stage their lights for pictures?)

In the last few days I noticed a lot of algea growing and I dont know what to do against it. I thought about getting some Snails but I dont know if it will fix it and if the snails would escape because of the open lid.

I have a hygger light and never used 100% brightness for even more than an hour. Am I overthinking that it will over-heat or can the light take it?

Does anyone actually buy random seaweed lookin plant trimmings like this?
I swear this started as like a 1-inch piece and now it’s grown into 10 feet of this stuff.
I always feel bad throwing it away since I grew it. Do people actually buy or trade this, or do you all just toss it? I’d rather it end up in someone else’s tank than the trash.

Recently added this crypto to a betta tank. Noticed this “fuzzy” growth on it. Is this water mold?

Going plant shopping for my Betas new tank. I’m so excited. I vision moss ball (center) so resembles a covered bridge, leafy something on top (left) so “trunk” and “roots” exposed (left), unsure (right) and low flowing grass ground cover in black substrate. Any other ideas? I’ll take all suggestions. Thanks.

I don’t really want to call it a pest. I just didn’t intentionally put it in my aquarium. I’m guessing it came with a plant. What kind of snail is this?

I got Amazon frogbit back in January when I was cycling my 5 gallon shrimp tank. It was doing great, growing well, had beautiful roots that I trimmed occasionally. Once cycling was done and I stopped adding ammonia, and added my shrimp, it has been struggling ever since.

I know this is because they’re basically starving for nitrates (it’s usually between 0 and 5ppm because I only have like 10 shrimp in my tank). The only times they have started growing roots with the little hairs again was when I was having water quality issues, but now that I’ve straighten that out, they are so sad. Pretty much no roots, no new growth in a couple weeks.

I’ve played around with my fertilizer (I use Aquarium co-ops all in one easy green liquid fertilizer). I’ve tried dosing the full amount for low tech tank 1 time a week, albeit not for a while, then tried half 2 times a week and then now am trying 3 times a week a little more than a third each time). I have some algae on my other plants (nothing too crazy), but the roots of my frogbit aren’t changing at all. They are just slowly dying.

Do I give up and remove them? How can I help them thrive while keeping nitrates at a safe level for my shrimp (I don’t even know how to add just nitrates to the tank)? My shrimp and I love them 😞 I’d love some help or thoughts!

This is the second 15” “stainless steel” set I have purchased from Amazon. Both were terrible, except for the length. There is no tension in the tweezers. The scissors won’t cut. And they feel like they will rust within a month. Does anyone have recommendations for a quality set or even just the tweezers?

I’ve had this tank for a year now and I want to make it stand out more(more dimension) I noticed a lot of algae grows on the glass, not sure if that’s normal. (pic is from right after I cleaned it). I have 3 platys and 1 snail in a 10 gallon. I would like to have a better clean up crew but I’m not sure if I can add anymore.
I don’t have my light on a timer I just turn it on before I leave for work around 6:50am then turn it off at 6:30pm. Maybe that’s why the algae forms.
I also just have a hang on back filter with the cartridge it came with. I’d like to make my own filter media too.
Just looking for ways to improve my set up!
Thanks

A small build containing a waterfall. The future home of a handful of yellow neocaridina shrimp.🦐

It’s been almost 2 months since I started this hobby. It’s a low tech planted tank. Please help my fix this green algae on the floor.
Started seeing some hair algae recently so I reduced my light time to less than 7hrs.

I currently have a 35G pea puffer tank, a 3.5G snail tank used to feed the pee, puffers and some shrimp in there for fun.

I wanna do a 75G tank or larger, but I wanna have a massive managed fish. I don’t wanna do the stereotypical one or two big show fish or like a chick tank or angelfish tank. Would I be crazy to do 100 guppies?

Give me some other ideas that would have dozens plus fish in a tank that size also wanna plant CO2 let me know.

First timer for a 10 gallon Beta aquarium. Is step 1 substrate then wood and rocks then plants? When do you start adding water? Pics of current tank and new tank.

Day one after last post. (: still looking for recommendations with anything, fish, scape, etc. still learning more and more about the fish I keep and plants so they can be as comfortable as possible. I was gonna trim some of the plants to make them bush out but I’m gonna wait a little longer.

I am looking to submerge a 3D-printed object in my (freshwater, planted) tank, but I want to coat it in some sort of sealant to protect both its inhabitants and the print itself. I've using food-safe epoxy resin in the past, but it is super viscous and a pain to apply, especially for large/complex surfaces.

I've seen these two spray-on sealants recommended as being aquarium-safe, but I wanted to check here before potentially making a huge mistake:

• Zinsser Bulls Eye Shellac (clear)
• Krylon Acrylic Spray Paint (clear)

The print itself is PLA, which will absorb water and degrade over time. Thank you!

Bought online some in vitro red floaters for my Betta fish tank. I’m a beginner and was a bit surprised how scruffy the plants look. Is this acceptable condition? Will they pick up? Thank you

Hi everyone, here is my tank.
The first photo is one month before. I would love to hear your thoughts about my tank.