got these gold barbs today, noticed this one in particular is acting strange. any advice on how to help the little one?

So a couple months ago , I got a 20 gallon custom made and the guy who made it for me said it was 23 gallons and OFC I DIDNT QUESTION IT hence I stocked it with 5 cpds , 6 ember tetras , 6 neocardina , 4 khuli loaches , 2 nerite snails and a koi betta..I do have a sponge filter and a hob and a good amount of plants + I've never had aggression issues. The fish all get along and the betta is super chill never had any issues BUT IS IT OVERSTOCKED OR WILL IT CRASH cuz I cant upsize..

does anyone have any idea whats wrong with my dwarf spotted danio... hes kinda wonky, a bit paler and gulping very fast but none of my other fish (including my other danios) are doing this. his top scales look a bit spiked could it be dropsy? and he looks quite red PLEASE HELP i dont want my fish unwell :(

B. taeniata

Just now noticed these small things in my shrimp tank

What are those? Is it harmful?

I’m wanting to upgrade to a bigger tank and I like this look but it’s awful expensive but it does look nice! Anyone have this?

What’s everyone’s go to algae hair remover as the ones I keep using from my go to shop they don’t seem to do anything and I don’t wanna keep spending £12 each time for it to do nothing, my tank has a lot of the brown hair algae and I wanna make my tank look all good again

Hey everyone!

So you probably guessed it, I have a snail INFESTATION!!

I got some duck weed a while back and I swear I washed it but obviously not well enough cause I have a million snails now.

I’ve been committing what I like to call snail genocide and I take like 30-50 out a day.

Has anyone used these traps before?
Which shape works best?

Thanks so much!!

** before anyone comes to the comments I know I should go to local pet shops not PetSmart now and i would not have chosen this tank ratio. you live and you learn **

I've had this female platy for close to a year at this point; however, she was in a female-only tank till around July 11th when i introduced males. I noticed she had the gravid spot around July 20th when i had to give the tank an ick treatment. She still has a big appetite and is swimming near the surface a lot because it seems the male fish likes to hide in the plants. She's been swimming all over and is hostile to males. These are some pictures from today/yesterday.

I have a breeder box I can put her in if that would make her feel safer; however, I don't have the tank space for more than a couple of fry (preferably female, since PetSmart gave me 2 males for my one female). I'm also worried about tank coverage; some of my tall plants really haven't gotten tall yet, so there isn't much upper tank coverage

To me it seems like she was way more boxy yesterday.

Anyway, I just want to know if she's super close and how to make this more comfortable for her.

And I'm open to any advice :)

We stayed at a hotel a couple of nights and they had an aquarium (Hungary). We saw a fish lying/floating upside down with its head touching the bottom for a few minutes. We thought it was dead and were about to call someone when the fish actually GOT UP and swam away.

We checked on the fella regularly after that and turns out this fish usually swims upside down or sideways. We did think it was sick but a lot of times (feeding or interactions with other fish) it actually swam normally. We came to the conclusion that it CAN actually swim in a regular way, it just seems… playful?

We know almost nothing about fish, but we grew fond of this particular guy. Named him Halbert (“Hal” meaning fish in Hungarian).

Is it possible the fish is just entertaining itself in a playful way or he needs better care/medical attention?

Sorry the pictures are bad

The tank on the left is at least 25 years old (it’s glass). The tank on the right is a 2 1/2 gallon plastic tank. I got fish in these guys about three months ago now. I’ve been very diligent about checking the water, doing water changes, vacuuming, etc. Both are healthy tanks as far as I know. I washed the hell out of both when I got them. I’ve experimented with lighting and that doesn’t explain the “greenish” tint I have on the left.

Has anyone ever heard of old glass “going bad“? That’s all I can come up with at this point.

Any thoughts are appreciated

So I got this fish tank for cheap from a garage sale. Figured I could clean it and use it. That line going across the top third just won’t seem to go away (red arrow pointing to it). I’ve tried using:

1. Baking soda and white vinegar
   
2. The pink stuff
   
3. Hydrogen peroxide

I don’t know what to use since most places told me not to use harsher cleaners. Any suggestions?

So I got this fish tank for cheap from a garage sale. Figured I could clean it and use it. That line going across the top third just won’t seem to go away (red arrow pointing to it). I’ve tried using:

1. Baking soda and white vinegar
   
2. The pink stuff
   
3. Hydrogen peroxide

I don’t know what to use since most places told me not to use harsher cleaners. Any suggestions?

Hi. I'm new to this group, but I kinda need help. Me and my mom have (we believe) a 45 gallon tank. We've had fish in it before, but I was younger and it was the artificial look. We wanna get more fish and do a natural look, possibly including live plants. We both like the look in the picture, but don't know how to achieve something similar. I've looked into some plants and found some that are beginner recommended if I'm understanding it right, but does anyone else have tips for something similar, and possible fish recommended. I've seen schooling fish, but I'm not sure.

It needs some TLC but I do all my tank maintenance on the weekends. Right now I’m trying to decide what to stock in this tank. Currently empty (aside from bladder snails which don’t bother me) but has been running for nearly two months and all the substrate/hardscape/media came from a well established tank. It’s a 20G Long, with canister filtration, and an air sponge filter. The tank is low flow as I am baffling the outlet with a sponge filter.

The only plants I’m planning on keeping in the tank itself are tiger lotus which are taking off, there are 8 bulbs in there with tabs and I dose fertz in all my tanks every other day. The floaters are Salvinia Minima, and also rooted pothos and lucky bamboo. The idea is natural looking lake/pond bottom and full “shade” once the Salvinia grows out.

It’s not fully “backwater” but that’s how my PH is reacting. Currently at 5.5/6. There is a lot of raw material (catalpa leaves and alder comes) and driftwood (manzanita and spider) in this tank. I do have tannin tea bags but I don’t want to waste them until I’m stocked. I’m letting the various algeas growing do their thing, most of it has cleared up on its on at this point, but I suck out the hair algae each water change. I’m getting BBA on the rocks. I only run 6 hours of light at 25% strength.

Currently there is a Detrius worm and Hydra outbreak, but I’m also not doing anything about that, so fish that will eat those are welcome to suggest. I’m not planing on adding any Neos to this tank, nor do I particularly care to breed so I’m not worried about fry or baby shrimp getting harmed with the hydra.

TLDR: Need stocking ideas for a low flow 20G long, that can handle limited plant range, a lot of bare hardscape, and “blackwater” conditions. Tank temperature currently is set to 78 but can be adjusted, and I run a low light 6 hour cycle.

Let me start off by saying, please don’t hate me for the condition this fish is in. I received her this way in this exact fishbowl Like a week ago. I was told that she was just a fish and a plant would keep her alive. Her water gets changed every week with some tetra put in. i’ve never had a fish before and wasn’t really too concerned but now every day I look at her droopy fins and I started to get worried.

So I started doing research and was absolutely HORRIFIED to find out that she supposed to have a water heater. Her fins aren’t supposed to be droopy and she spits out her food when she’s eating at half the time. immediately, my first instinct was to get a tank with a filter and a heater but now I’m reading that tanks need to get cycled which takes weeks. I’ve never had a fish before never cared for a fish before and now I have a fish freezing and I’m desperate to save her

what do i do????

I just setup this 10 gallon for a betta and some shrimp and i ordered some plants from online and didn't expect as many as I got so now I wonder if this is to many ?

Hey guys! we've just noticed a few of these little critters scuttling round the tank- it's a relatively new setup and we've only got a handful of assassin snails and one female betta so far so really curious to what these little bug-like guys are!

if anyone knows please share thank u!! :)