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So I kinda had a little oopsie and now I have blue green algae in one of my tanks. Short of dosing anything yet, I’ve just been doing water changes and removing parts of the plants that have the bga on them but it just seems to keep coming back now I’ve been looking at a bunch of things on...

So my 29g that was my growout tank for some comets and coi that I put in my pond became a shrimp tank this summer and for some reason the shrimp just aren’t doing good in this tank compared to my others I can’t seem to find anything that is causing it as water parameters are identical or very...

Just got back from a week vacation and Sometime during the week I have had a mystery moss start taking over one of the pieces of wood in my 75g This tank only has some Java moss that’s been in there for about 6 months, and this looks different in structure and Colour from that. The only other...

Omg, I’m gonna be a dad! Haha So just got these guys and some red cherries a few days ago. Noticed today that one of the blue velvets appears to be packing some eggs! I didn’t think these guys would be reproducing yet as they’re quite small. Hopefully, since they spent a couple days mixed...

So one of my mystery snails isn’t doing so well it seems… I know they just shut down and sleep for a couple days sometimes, but this seems like more than that Going on day 5 now, he’s still alive, will usually be up in his shell like usual when sleeping. Other times, he’s clamped tightly...

Sounds like a bad idea… and I’m pretty sure the barbs ate the lone ghost shrimp I had, but the bamboo shrimp in there are doing good. Was thinking about putting some cherry shrimp in the 75 with the barbs once I get a batch or 2 of them bred in the other tank. The comets in the 29g are going...

Just pondering dumb ideas on how to best flood the place and ruin the floors… I’ve been wanting to add another tank to my 75g as kind of a sump/snail tank. I was looking at something along the lines of a 36g bow which would fit nicely in the corner not far from the 75. My thought is that it...

So this is a strange development in the last day or so. Haven’t had any issues in this tank despite it being just a comet grow-out tank. Noticed today there’s a weird spot on one of the comets dorsal fins… It’s a white and red blotch…? Almost looks like an ich spot, but I’ve never seen ich...

Not sure what I’m doing wrong here or maybe it’s just a dud plant… I picked up a couple scarlet temple bunches and planted them in my 75g when I set it up a couple months back. At the same time I planted some newly purchased moneywort as well as a bunch of red ludwigia cuttings from my other...

I want to try and carpet my 75g, but the nearest shop never sells any kind of carpeting plants and I haven’t been able to find any while I was on my last travels Seems it’s hard to even find anyone that had stock of, and is willing to ship plants in Canada too. This time of year it’s just...

Anyone else been watching Kevin Novaks YouTube videos and how he’s setting up an under gravel plenum for anoxic filtration? I thought under gravel filtration was dead as the dodo but he seems to have a clever idea there using it to create an anoxic environment. Was thinking of re-scaping the...

So this is in my 75g with the rts, barbs and a couple bristlenose babies For the first few weeks the Cory seemed to carry out what I’d think is normal behaviour. Puttering around at the bottom of the tank rooting around for food The last week or so they’ve been spending a lot of their time...

Found this little guy tootling around on the ludwigia today. This in in my 10 day old 75gal setup. I’m thinking he rode in on the scarlet temple that was new to this tank, though surprisingly I’ve never seen any snails in the plant aquarium at our lfs (the ludwigia was moved from my 29g and...

So I did a thing today... lol Price was right so I picked up a 75gal tank. Got it set up and partially scaped till I figure out exactly what I’m going to do. It’s going to be planted. While I was in the city I went and browsed what was available for stocking the tank. As usual it was slim...

So recently noticing some growth in my pleco, and with that, noticing maybe he’s not what I thought he was... This pleco was sold to me as a common pleco, and maybe it’s just me but it looks like more of a high fin spotted pleco than a common...? Picture isn’t great, and don’t adjust your tv...

I know I’ve come across a thread about something similar to this but I can’t seem to find it and don’t recall the outcome of it... Anyways, my heavily populated 29g water has slowly been getting cloudier by the day it seems The tank had found its happy place about 6 weeks ago, water looked...

So my 29gal has a small common pleco that I was hoping would keep things somewhat tidy in the tank. But it appears he’s more interested in hanging out on the plants rather than the glass! I’ve read snails are pretty handy at keeping the algae buildup down. So I’ve been considering adding a...

I’ve got some comets in a 29gal, with an aqua clear 70 for filtration. It’s just my quarantine/bulking up tank before they head out to the pond Anyways, the ac70 definitely keeps the tank circulating. Maybe too much? During the day the comets usually take turns playing around in the strong...

Honestly don’t remember seeing this guys tail missing when I first got the batch, but on the second day I noticed he’s got nothin! He’s in with a bunch of other comets awaiting paradise in the pond, which I’ve noticed some others have appeared to been nipped once or twice. Not sure if this guy...

Complete newbie here, fish/tank/ect are all new ~48hr old kinda thing. (Yea I know, wtf, but that’s already in a whole other thread lol) Anyways, new development this afternoon. Doesn’t look like ich from the pictures I can find. It’s more of a white fuzz? Sorry picture isn’t the greatest...

So in typical newbie fashion. I’ve gone and jumped in with both feet and doing it completely backwards! But hear me out... Given my location, it’s all of a 4 hour drive to the nearest fish shop. None of which will allow me to prepurchase or hold fish, and I’ve been burnt several times...

Hey guys, just checking in and saying hello Newbie here from up in northern Alberta. Trying new things with the pond (dugout) and aquariums! I’m sure I’ll be on blast for all my thoughts and ideas LOL