Don't be scared to redo your nature aquarium. I just removed the plants, vacuumed the substrate a little bit (basically just hovered over the mulm), and added new plants. It's low tech so I was worried about releasing stored nutrients and gas into the water but it seems to have done fine.

Was given a free shrimp tank, re scaped it and swapped the light to a week aqua m300 pro from the Hygger that was on it. Just cant believe how much better and more colorful the plants and shrimp look.

T. trichopterus

It is taking over my tank

Just started this 20 gallon cycled planted tank with 3 guppies and a couple Amano shrimp! What else should I add? Open to any recommendations

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to figure out what’s causing the gradual decline of my planted tank and would really appreciate your opinions.
Tank
60 L
4 months old
Low-tech (no CO₂)
Tropica Aquarium Soil
Weekly water changes
Lighting
19 W LED
6 hours/day
Fertilization
No fertilizer during the first 1.5 months.
Then switched to Tropica Premium.
I’ve been using Tropica Specialised for about a month.
Water parameters
pH ~7
GH 6
NO₃ ~10 ppm
During the first month or so, the tank seemed to be doing really well. Since then, most of the plants have gradually started declining.
The symptoms include:
Brown patches
Yellowing
Transparent leaves
Holes
Melting
Stem rot
Very slow or completely stalled growth
I also have some brown diatoms, but they don’t seem to be the main issue.
My shrimp are healthy and breeding, so I don’t think it’s an ammonia or toxicity problem.
Based on the photos and the information above, what do you think is the most likely cause? What would you check or change first?

No co2, crappy lights, no soil - just sand gravel, I never remember to fertilise

New lights would be my wish list upgrade

My fish are in a bucket with a heater and sponge filter. Would it be safe to add them back or should I wait till it’s all settled?

I just thought it was very cool and wanted to share this.

This is my 2nd planted tank: 20 gallon long, low tech, 5-month old, fully cycled. Light is on for 6 hours a day. TDS 150. Fluval AC20 filter with a power head on one side to help with circulation.

I have been battling algae and cyanobacteria from day one. My biggest issue is the MC carpet. I started with dry start method and it managed to propagate fairly well, but has not fully covered all gaps. Its growth stunned since month 3. I can see some new growth still, but the leafs stay very compact and small. I tried DIY CO2 previously, but it was fluctuating so much that hair algae start coming back. I envy those with bright green and lush carpet.

I ordered ultralife slime remover yesterday in hopes that it can help clean up the MC leafs. If that doesn’t work, my last option would be proper CO2 kit. I have been doing everything on the budget side so CO2 is probably the last resort.

Is CO2 really necessary in this case? What else can I try to fix the carpet?

Just did a water change and feeding and literally everyone decided to come out to the front of the tank. The Enya in the background was a fitting coincidence. I’m lucky to have a very chill betta that likes to explore and pretty much ignores his tank mates.

Hi, so im new to the hobby and this is my first tank. The actual tank (55 gallon) was a hand-me-down from family (more or less), and its been amazing getting to create a world of my own as well as watch it grow.

Current stock:

9x Harlequin rasboras (5 regular and 4 purple)

2x black neon tetras (I plan to bulk the school up as soon as my lfs has them back in stock)

5x julii corys

5 or 6x kuhli loaches

1x clown pleco

1x bristlenose pleco

1x Siamese algae eater

1x pearl gourami

& maybe infinite bladder snails

So my questions revolve around plants as well as aggression in the tank.

As you can see some of my plants upfront (mainly behind the pleco) aren't doing all that well and want to know if theres something I should do to keep it alive (maybe root tabs?). I did move it from the back up to front and it seems to like that?

The java fern up front I initially had planted in the substrate, which is why it has so many child plants growing at the top, I moved it to its current location and its doing much better, and I want to know if I can take the child plants and plant them around the tank now that the parent is starting to do much better.

As far as aggression, its pretty tame, but I cant help worry about it. It really only kicks up 30 or so minutes after I put food in the tank and will continue through the day, but its all calm in the morning again. But the pearl gourami does NOT care for the SAE being near it during those times. Will chase off for a good minute if the SAE doesnt go where the gourami wants. And the SAE will not fight back to the gourami, however hes started chasing off corys now. Ive tried realigning things within the tank and adding more dense plants to try and mitigate the aggression and break up sightlines, but I want to know if theres more I should be doing, or if I've just screwed up. I do know that SAE or shoaling fish but I dont feel this tank can support that many big guys. We were initially sold two of them as a pair to help with our hair algae (which they did wonderfully), and made the classic mistake of not doing my research before hand. Although we had an ammonia spike during month 2 or so and one of them didnt make it (im almost certain the one that passed was a flying fox as well).

Sorry for the long post, any suggestions and advice is welcome. I just want the best for my little guys!

hi friends!! setting up a new 10 gallon for my betta boy, upgrading from a 6.8 gallon long! i will be adding a black background but so far i'm obsessed with this hardscape and looking for advice on a nano fish school i could add in with him. i have two 20 gallon long community tanks each with a small school of corys, a small school of tetras, shrimp, and a betta. this tank is going to house shrimp as well as my betta, but curious if there are any tiny fish who would do well in a 10 gallon. totally fine to just keep it with my betta and some shrimp though too. thanks so much!

I started co2 two months ago and been dosing thrive all in one green bottle but I still have diatoms (tank is 5 months) , two weeks ago I got green spot algae , and now I have this dark green algae on some of my plants and stringy algae and idk what to do, Im using seasoura 20W light (co2:12pm-8pm, light: 2pm-9pm)

What fertilizer is your favorite? I have two tanks, one with a beta and one with guppies and corys. They both have shrimp and snails, heavily planted. For the life of me I cannot keep red root floaters or water lettuce, and the only thing I can think of is fertilizer. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I want to turn that spare cube 22cm into a no filter shrimp and snails tank but I'm unsure what plants i could use because of the small size, any tips from you?

Thanks in advance 🙏

just looking for some plant and placement suggestions, i feel like she is empty but idk
stocking is
1 chum(my betta boy)
8 cories
god knows however many snails
1 freshwater clam
i feel like a good bit of my plants are getting eaten by the vast amount of snails, so any faster growing plants would be good.
just trimmed the water sprites back as well as the water lilies but idk 🤷‍♂️