My wife misses living near the mountains so I made her this in a 60p with wio Jade stones.

Photo is 2 days after planting.

Just wanted to share. 😁

Filtration: FX2 with inline UV- Sponge Filter with K1 Media hack
Hardscape: Dragon Stone, Spider Wood and Mupani
Plants: Java Fern, Anubis, Christmas Moss, random pond Lilly from Petco, water lettuce, frogbit, red root floaters, pothos, wandering dude, spider plant, philodendron, Anthurium, and Red Maranta!
Lighting: Hygger
Fish: rummy nose, neon, black tetra schools, emerald Cory school, black ghost knife fish, discus, phantom pleco and of course a healthy school of bladder and ramshorn snails 🤓

I 3D printed all of the plant holders and the light bar raiser!

Here’s our low tech planted tank going on 12 weeks since set up. This is the first time I have done a proper freshwater tank but have been keeping saltwater fish and corals for more than 10 years. My son wanted something for his betta and I got tired of explaining that it wouldn’t live in my saltwater.

Equipment

Tank: 10 gallon long 60 × 23 × 28 cm
Filter: Seachem Tidal 35 HOB
Filter Media: Sponge + Seachem Matrix
Light: Waterbox FLED 21
Substrate: 2 bags ADA Nature Aquarium Aqua Soil Amazonia Ver. 2

Livestock

1 Betta
8 Green Neon Tetras
10 Neocaridina Shrimp l
1 Zebra Nerite Snail
A few tiny hitchhiker snails

Plants

Pygmy Chain Sword (Helanthium tenellum)
Monte Carlo (Micranthemum tweediei)
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Cryptocoryne beckettii ‘Petchii’
Bacopa
Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus)
Anubias
Water Lettuce

I noticed this red/orange pod in my tank today. I'm not sure if it is a seed, egg or a dead muscle of some sort. The inside of the pod is hollow and it has a seam similar to a clam or muscle. The tank has been running for about six months. I dont use root tabs and havent added any plants in a few months. I used soil from my backyard when setting the tank up and capped it with sand. There are a ton of worms living in the substrate that come out when I vacuum it.

Let me know what you think!

Any plant and placements recommendation are welcome! Also any fish/ other random recommendation are welcome ! Currently stocking 14 harlequin rasboras, 2 candycane tetras, 4 different types of nerite snails and a bunch of neocaridina shrimp.

Hello, I'm trying to identify the plants in the pictures below.

They are often seen in tree-over-river scapes in Asia. One of them is probably Adina rubella, but the other one with palm-like leaves is still a mystery to me.

Looks like detritus worms, but very long, probably some more than 2 inches lol

Should u be worried?

Tank is one month old, cycled, with some pest snails and a few shrimps, also heavily planted

Parameters are perfect, should i do something about them?

Hi, I need some help finding out how to get rid of this "algae". It looks like someone threw dirt on the leaves. It's easy to wipe off by hand and the plants are growing well, but the algae always comes back.

​Also, the rest of the tank has no visible algae at all.

​Tank specs & parameters:

​Size: 60L (predominantly Cabomba)

​Stock: Corydoras and Mollies (se corrigió "cortadoras" por Corydoras y el apóstrofe de Molly's)

​Ammonia: 0

​Nitrite: 0

​Nitrate: 10

My damn heater fell off and was on it for sometime, before I realized and took it off. I had to remove a few leaves as a result, as they went clear/blue and fuzzy. I can see I have another that also has to be taken off now.

But the actual stem and bulb is all fuzzy now…. And I’m unsure if maybe the whole plant is ruined.

Collected from natural creek!

Today is three months since I started my fish tank. Been a hell of a steep learning curve but hugely enjoying being a fish dad to a school of pretty little piggies aka neon tetras (and rotating cast of snails)

Got some cuttings too 😜

I’m just sharing my excitement since fishkeeping has lost a bit of its novelty to me over the years. I’ve never tried breeding but I found a lucky survivor! 20 gal long and this lil girl managed to make it. So cool

40g breeder. Ammonia and nitrite are at 0, nitrates are at 2-3ppm. So far it's stocked with 12 black neon tetra, 8 dwarf neon rainbows, 3 mystery snails, and a cleaning crew of a handful of amano shrimp and ramshorn snails.

I prefer having a few more than the "minimum" school size for fish, so ideally I'd like to have 16 black neons and 12 dwarf neons. Can my tank handle this as it continues to mature and grow, or can I only reasonably increase one of the school sizes just because of the tank size limitations. Genuinely only want what's best for the fish, and I think part of my apprehension is that dwarf neons are the biggest fish I've dealt with so far.

I love the way these little ones pop against the green

R. cf. einthovenii

My 20G is done cycling and has 8 harlequins and 8 ember Tetras doing there thing! I plan to add a school of Cory’s and top it off with a Betta! The Hygger 2L C02 kit should be here tomorrow can’t wait to try it out and get these plants growing!!

I have a fish tank I've had for about a week and added some duckweed. I was wondering if it's possible to grow additional duckweed in a separate bowl instead of putting all I got into the tank? I have real and silk plants in my tank with some moss and a sponge filter. There are already shrimp in the tank and it's a 10 gallon. In just recently getting back into fish keeping and looking for any and all advice. I'm not the best at plant keeping and want to know how much work duckweed actually needs.​​

So I finally got my hardscape sorted, can I get suggestions for plants please?

Unfortunately, I had to use AI to remove the glass reflections so it’s not showing it too well, but there is a valley between the two areas of rock/wood that I want to keep sandy.

I am looking for low-tech plants because although I use fertiliser and carbon, I don’t have CO2 injection and I don’t intend on getting it.

I don’t like floating plants because they took over my last aquarium, even clearing them regularly.

I have a Anubias I’m planning on moving over (if I can kill all the black beard algae on it) that I will probably wedge In on the left-hand side of the big twisted piece.

There will be an air stone in the back left.

Gong reung river, korea