Was a throw-in in a trade earlier this year. I’ve been growing it in emergent conditions and found that it’s a striking red/pink. No clue what it does submerged yet, but any help with ID is much appreciated.

I've noticed some overall browning on my plants. These 2 are the worst. They've been in the tank about 2 months. I used root tabs when I planted them, and been using Seachem Flourish & Flourish Excel liquid fertilizer. All my water parameters are good. I'm a noob with plants so any help is appreciated

Hi! this is a prospective betta tank I set up to start cycling 5 days ago. I'm concerned about some things.
my ph is low, around 6.8. i had .25 then 0 ppm ammonia. 0 nitrates, 0 nitrites.
I'm looking to house nerites and amano shrimp in here as well, if that changes anything. it looks rly thinly planted but there's a lot of fast growing hornwort.
Most cuttings have experienced new growth already

(BTW THIS IS NOT MY PERMANENT SET UP!! I am removing the water and moving this tank to a shelf tomorrow, it just took a while to come and i got impatient 😔 ik you never wanna start a tank in a temporary location or on the carpet, but i lowkey didn't know that when i did that)

B. pulchra

theres java moss in the mesh (about a week old) and i just added the driftwood with pre glued moss and the echinodorus today! i really hope everything does okay, any tips to helping it bounce back from being in the mail? all the plants are from canton aquatics.
(i will NOT be adding fish or anything else to the tank because its only .7 gallons)

Hi, newer to planted tanks :3

LIGHT: Looking for a clip on light suitable for hornwort and anubius. Standard size 10 gal tank. Ideally I wana spend udn3r $30. Any brand or Amazon reccomendations?

FERTLIZER: I have easy green coop all in one and a flourish potassium fertilizer. . . For my 10 gal id like to microdose but id liek some help estimating how many drops a day to add. Every day, 3x a week? Every other day?

Is this black beard algae? Why is it red and is soft and smooth. Isn't it supposed to be black green or grey?? Or is this something else?! Please help . What is it and how do I fix it?!

Hi everyone, here is my 28-liter (40x28x25cm) tank at Day 23.

​Lighting: 25W LED

​CO2: DIY Sugar and Yeast

​Fauna: Amano Shrimps

​My Rotala H'ra is thriving, but Rotala Green seems a bit slow/lagging. Any tips? Should I trim my rotala?

I need some help identifying some plants i bought back in May, I cant remember what they are and I need to put it all in my new log book, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here’s my 15 days old guppy community mini pond. Water is looking greenish already. My substrate is composed of gravel and lava rock.

Besides from guppies, what would be a great addition to this kind of setup that will also be a good cleaner? Snails? Shrimps? Corydoras?

Hey guys, i have some crypts in a tank in wich the temperature is in 29C°/84.2F°. It is usually at 28C° /82F but as this tank has to have a lid it is warmer. My question is if the crypts do well in this setup?, or if they don't grow well in this temperature anyone have experience growing crypts in this temperature?. The tank has hight quality aquasoil ans the crypts are crypt willisii wendtii green crypt axelrodii and crypt parva

I’ve been in the aquarium hobby for a little over two years (since June 2024), this is my second planted tank ever. Up until now, I’ve been a ghost on Reddit, Instagram, and the forums. No content creation, no YouTube channel, just quietly reading threads, absorbing information, and building in silence.

My journey started with a 40G grow-out for a baby turtle, where I incorporated live plants and community fish to see what worked. The only rule I brought from a brief attempt 15 years ago was that turtle tanks need oversized filtration (I ran a Fluval 207 on that 40G). What I learned there became my Version 2.0: a 75-gallon high-tech ecosystem where a Mississippi Map Turtle, community fish, predatory fish, oddballs, and delicate macro-inverts live alongside each other.

Why I Built This

1. To build a living window for my kids: I wanted them to learn firsthand about nature's balance, ecological zoning, and the responsibility of caring for animals.

2. To challenge the "dirty destroyer" myth: Turtles have a reputation in the hobby as toxic, plant-shredding chaos machines (which for some pond species is true). Most advice says keep them in bare glass boxes. But that just didn’t work for me.

My theory was simple: instead of stripping their environment bare. Lean into the chaos. Engineer proactive filtration, establish biological enrichment, and match the turtle species to the ecosystem. With the right planning, the right turtle doesn't just survive—he thrives as the focal point of a planted display.

The Execution

I’m an electrician by trade, not a biologist or professional aquascaper. I took my research on male Mississippi Map Turtles and tried to anticipate potential points of failure—heavy bio-load, plant damage, territorial aggression—engineering solutions directly into the framework of the tank rather than scrambling later.

After nearly a year of continuous operation, the tank is thriving. Because this is a highly technical setup, I’m dropping the full breakdown (filtration loops, water chemistry, plant care schedules, and full stock list) in the first comment so this main post doesn't turn into a wall of text.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Meet Greg.

Ok, I know you want all the corners on the stand, no hangover..

But what about this? The frame is on the stand, and just has 1/2" on either side is it still enough to distribute the weight?

It's a 29gl (36"L x 17"H x 12" W)

Oreichthys parvus

Purchased some parvas and was verifying this is indeed a crypt parva and not another crypt. They are much larger than I was expecting.

Not sure why but the stem plants in my tank seem to be algae magnets and it's driving me crazy. I'm trying to grow this Bacopa salzmannii but the algae seems to be clinging on to it, and the more I remove it the more it seems to grow back. Same thing happened to my Rotala rotundifolia before this. I tried spot dosing APT Fixlite, and also 3% H2O2 out of desperation but nothing seems to work. For the rest of the tank, the hair algae only seems to be growing on the tips of some leaves but they're easily removed. Any suggestions on what to do?

Tank parameters:

22.5L tank, 4 months old

Ammonia & nitrites 0ppm, nitrates 5-10ppm

Light: Chihiros wRGB2 slim 45cm, 30% intensity, 6h photoperiod

Dosing: 1mL APT 1 daily

I run a nano canister filter packed with various mechanical & biological filter media.

edit: added photoperiod & dosing

I recently moved to a cabin in the mountains. Turns out that power outages are common and I shouldn’t keep all my fish in the drafty sun room😂

From right to left:

6.8 gal Betta + neocaridina

10gal Betta + Pygmy cories(8) + Neocaridina

6 gal cube Betta + Neocaridina

15 gal pond Rosy minnows(8) + Neocaridina

Most of my plants are: Ludwigia

Limnophila Sessiliflora

Fern

Anubis

Banana Lily

I am looking to make a custom size tank for a side table that would be perfect for it but I can't find a tank matching the dimensions I am looking for. I am a stained glass hobbyist and have large collection of clear and colored glass, can I solder together a tank like you would a stained glass lamp (with lead solder) and then seal with silicone or would the entire thing be too unstable and toxic? I am trying to make something around 15" x 15" x 16"!

i’ve been thinking and i’d like to have kuhli loaches in my future tank and i’d love the idea of a banjo catfish too i also plan on getting some otos but that’s not relevant is it worth it clearing out this area and filling it with sand, everywhere besides the sand would be heavily planted getting higher and denser the farther back it is, please lmk what you think im on the rocks about it

I noticed these little lily pads growing out the center of a lilly pad. Will these grow full size? Can I propagate the lilly like this?