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I made my girlfriend a wabi-kusa style paludarium from Valentine’s Day and at first the plants seemed doing well and growing. Then the AR’s leaves started curling up, which is upsetting her. During this time, we were trying to spray seachem flourish liquid fert and flourish excel (to prevent...

After a couple years I finally got back into fish keeping and started an 11gal tank. Countless videos of aquascaping inspired me to do this and took a couple weeks of planning. The tank is an 11gal aqueon frameless with a glass hood and an aquamaxx light. Will be using liquid CO2 and ferts...

Finally settled after the move and I'm pretty excited to try this style of Japanese aquascaping. To put it loosely, iwagumi means "rock formation" or "rock garden", using rule of thirds to focus attention on the hardscape and making things look natural. Went to my LFS yesterday and found some...

How do I get rid of it. Is all over my driftwood? Please and thank you! Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

It's been a while since I've started a new tank. Now since I'm pretty settled-in after the move I found a perfect spot for my cube on the end of a breakfast bar. Substrate is inert sand, lighting is a solar flare LED 12" lamp with 10k daylights. Planning to use seachem flourish and excel since...

Hello everyone! I was initially debating on getting blue Pearl vs blue velvet. Googled them and they look exactly the same... Can anyone clarify the species and offspring for these shrimp? As far as I know: Blue Pearl: Very light blue, offspring are white Breed true? Neocardina zhangjiajiensis...

Ba-bam! Cambarellus Shufeldtii. Picture of him just being awesome. Currently in a tank with a female scarlet badis and bumblee nerite. Apparently they're supposed to be blue but mine is brown. Maybe he'll change color once comfortable? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

changed the substrate from inert gravel to black fluorite capped with sand. Major differences include new driftwood orientation position and added some sea shells. I also ordered some seaweed-looking plants like subwassertang, lace java fern, and corkscrew val. Using my imagination as best I...

Can anyone tell me if this is a fungus or algae? it grows pretty fast. I've been removing it via siphon/water changes but it always comes back. It's clear/white, stringy, and undulates back and forth with the water flow. How do I get rid of it? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

caught them surprisingly out in the open a few days ago and i figured it wasn't a usual sight to see since they're hard to find in aquariums. haven't had a chance to upload until today. last few seconds in the video is a close-up of her with eggs! sorry for the quality though, i only have a...

Anyone know any information on these guys? Stumbled upon this photo on Google Beautiful Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I would just like to know if I'd ever see them again in my soon-to-be 2.2g that's half black fluorite, half white sand. it's always interesting and funny to watch them wave their legs in the water to catch small food particles. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

This is Nori =] my first CRS. Went to the LFS to pick up some but this was the only one left. Supposedly they'll be getting them again on Monday. They were out of hardness test kits so I'm trying my luck with 25% tap (very hard, pH 7.5) and 75% RO water without using remineralizer. The tank's...

I have 10 cherry shrimp in a 1.7 gallon tank. I have another tank being dry started at the moment that is meant for them but now I am strongly considering crystal reds. I know I will have to start using RO + remineralizer, because my tap is 7.5 pH and very hard. If I sell/trade the cherries at...

hello everyone =] completely revamped my cherry shrimp tank a few days ago and am looking for advice in dry starting as it is my first time doing this. right now the cherries are in a temporary tank. contemplating on crystal reds (their colors will just pop!), but my tap is better suited for...

completely re-aquascaping my 2.2g cube shrimp tank! this will be my first semi-amateur/profeshh-ish aquascape after being inspired by so many images of the "underwater tree" concept. i've only been in the hobby since last november, but consistent with popular belief, this hobby is addicting...

shipment came in today including a horned nerite snail. this has the same spiral yellow and black pattern on the shell but no horns when i took it out of the plastic bag. upon inspecting the shell further, there are no places that i can tell if the horns were broken off or not. i contacted the...

this may seem like an outrageous question, but is there a way to limit the extent of substrate coverage of a carpet plant, let's say HC or dwarf hairgrass? like if you only want it to grow in a soil bed but not on sand, of which the soil kind of blends onto the other substrate.

Anybody in the Bergen county area of NJ have a spare horned nerite? I need an small algae eater for my 3 gallon that my betta won't end up eating. All my local fish stores had none for weeks, only the other kinds. but horned nerites are a favorite of mine. Thanks! Willing to do transaction in...

So, I just witnessed my betta gobble up my 1nch ghost shrimp. They lived together for a couple of weeks and always ignored each other. When I peeked at my tank this morning my betta was looking up at me guarding what I first thought was a molted shrimp shell in a dark corner of my tank. When I...

bought 2 pots of dwarf baby tears (cuba kind) today for a 2.2 gallon cube aquascape i'm planning. first time handling them. the first pot was a disaster. did it with my fingers. it ended up being separated into, quite literally for half of them, single-stemmed/rooted portions of DBT as i took...

Picked up 2 males yesterday! I knew I liked them the moment I saw them. Very curious and beautifully colored. They are very shy though! I had to take the picture at some distance because they always move away from my camera. They look more relaxed today so I hope they'll take my hikari...

i have a 3 gallon moderately planted tank with 1 betta, 1 ghost shrimp, and 2 common guppies. everyone has been living peacefully with each other for 2 months up until about a week ago. my betta started making bubble nests near the back of the tank and would occasionally chase down the two...

so i got two micro crabs a couple of days ago from petco. yes, petco. first time keeping these. one with 6 legs and another with the full 8. they like to hangout under driftwood with some moss. then just last night next to the 8-legged one i noticed something what looked to me like a molted...

hello everyone! glad to have finally joined an aquarium forum after getting into the hobby a few months ago. i have 2 small tanks: first one is a planted tank with a half-moon blue betta living with 2 small common guppies. may be planning on putting a horned nerite in there to help clean the...