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Anonymous02/11/26, 18:05No.5100431/aqg/ - Aquarium General
That's right it's a goldfish edition
Tank Cycling:
>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/
Stocking and Water Change Calculator:
>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php
>https://finscape.us/
>www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/EffectiveWaterChange.php
Articles and Care Guides:
>www.seriouslyfish.com/knowledge-base/
>www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/
>www.aquariumcoop.com/
>www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/
Aquatic Plant Database:
>www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/all.php
>www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplants
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Anon02/11/26, 18:22No.5100435
Shubunkin are the best goldfish.
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Anon02/11/26, 18:31No.5100445
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Anon02/11/26, 19:28No.5100460
Hell yeah a smashed slammed fish edition thread.Seriously, how does one look at this and think this is okay?
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Anon02/11/26, 19:59No.5100475
I have an empty 10g aquarium, what should I try to breed in it? I would ideally like to make some money if possible.
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Anon02/11/26, 21:23No.5100489
More like slop edition
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Anon02/12/26, 04:51No.5100574
>Heavy breathing
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Anon02/12/26, 04:57No.5100575
almost ready to 'scape my tank anons! i just need to break one big rock into two smaller rocks and put it all together.
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Anon02/12/26, 17:34No.5100716
New tank has been set up with fish and sump running for over a week now. No sign of ammonia other cycle issues (used a big ass sponge filter from old tank to innoculate), and no leaks from the sump. Went a bit heavy on hardness but fish stock should all be fine with it.It's a 60ish gallon tank (48x18x18 with small overflow/baffle) and a 25 gallon sump, of which roughly 18 gallons are moving bed filter, 4 gallons are static to act as mech filtration, and 3 gallons are the pump section - the 7 that aren't moving bed run very low because my intake is slower than I expected, but the whole thing can't flood from electricity or pump failure unless I overfill the system, due to the excess space in the sump.The mulm you see here has all been removed at this point, by combination of quick polishing filter run and the corys tossing it into the water to make its way to the sump.
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Anon02/12/26, 18:43No.5100726
I've been dealing with bacterial blooms in this left tank for literally months.
I never wanted to do a blackout, but it went away on it's own twice for about a week.
I tried a power head with a polish filters once and it cleared in a day for about two weeks, and I was like hell yeah
It's come back again, had the powerhead running for a couple days and no change.
The powerhead is immensely oversized for the 10G, but the guppies seem to enjoy it.I now have a bloom in this other tank next to it for the first time, which is infuriating. This tank just has some snails and plants, it's seasoning for shrimp I want to breed.
I've never had this happen in my 75G or 20G.I just tested and found KH absent in the guppy tank, which is unusual for my hard water ~200-300 gpg.I usually don't do water changes on the tank because I read that gives the bacteria more food, but I'm doing a 50% now to top off the KH.Just a reoccuring annoyance, I'd be grateful for any insight.
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Anon02/12/26, 21:22No.5100753
I saw one of these at the store. What can you tell me about them?
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Anon02/12/26, 23:15No.5100764
Do you really need a protein skimmer and all the other bells-and-whistles for a simple marine tank?
Can't I just use a canister filter?
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Anon02/13/26, 13:23No.5100868
Just saw some Cherry shrimp having sex before an Amano strolled along and started ripping one of them in half. Not sure what his problem was but that Cherry's dead now.
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Anon02/14/26, 08:30No.5101098
Sponge filter for nano fish tank
Y/n
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Anon02/14/26, 16:50No.5101148
What are Saltwater fish that have direct freshwater cousins?
Like thr tiger moray eel, freshwater puffers and stingrays.
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Anon02/15/26, 21:23No.5101414
My Odessa barbs genocided the bladder snails. Before adding them, thriving population. After, zero. All the eggs, too. May have gotten all the ramshorn eggs and small ramshorn too, I only see a handful of big ones now.
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Anon02/17/26, 08:47No.5101823
>Might have to work in a different country for 2-3 months starting mid-March
>Have 3 tanks and a pair of newts
>Half of the fish wont eat pellets, frozen
>The battery backup isn't complete yet
>But the tank controller for bigtank seems to be coming together nicely
ANXIETY
>Anon, how much could it possibly cost to have someone feed your fish?
Fuck you, that's how much. How much to confirm topup, how much to confirm X/Y/Z are eating, how much to troubleshoot on-site in an emergency, how much to test macro to make sure the autofeeders haven't gone ape shit, how much to do water changes and match temp/salinity, how much to do other standard tests.I swear to fuck it's going to kill me with worry.
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Anon02/17/26, 12:23No.5101860
I started a new aquarium a few days ago and, despite washing the substrate, the water became instantly cloudy and looks the exact same as it did when I started, should I just do a partial water change or remove all the water and restart the tank?
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Anon02/17/26, 13:32No.5101874
I've got a little medaka tank with some cories and a couple shrimp in it as well but I feel it's missing a mid level swimming fish. I've considered a betta (female), but do you guys have any considerations for a little companion for this tank? I've also thought of a paradise fish, flag fish, gourami, potentially rams - I do want to breed rams - Not sure what else to consider
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Anon02/19/26, 20:45No.5102487
Why are fish so great /aq/
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Anon02/20/26, 02:20No.5102594
Was it really that difficult to find a real pic of a goldfish
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Anon02/20/26, 21:03No.5102806
>set up new tank
>potting soil, sand, rocks
>not cycling, no plants yet (soon, br0ther)
>tests indicate 0 for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate
>slight brownish haze to water, slight film on surface, no detectable stinkthis is okay right? hopefully getting the plants tomorrow, might pick up root tabs or something since apparently there's no N-compounds in the water for them.
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Anon02/22/26, 00:23No.5103160
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Anon02/22/26, 00:48No.5103163
Dang nice rock
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Anon02/22/26, 01:34No.5103182
it really helps if you can get some starter bacteria from someone elses's tank media
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Anon02/22/26, 01:44No.5103187
i swear anubias just sits there and does fuck all for 6 months in any new tank i add it
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Anon02/22/26, 03:36No.5103198
just saw my alpha male molly connect his pp to pussy then proceed to have a few light seizures after cumming, first time seeing that, damn that must have felt good
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Anon02/22/26, 18:05No.5103375
I'm slowly preparing for a 29g tank in my home office. I already have a 40g in my living room.I'm waffling between building the tank around a paradise fish or pea puffers. Live food isn't a problem. I already produce it. Paradise fish are beautiful and I could build a color tank around them. Pea puffers are so cool and unique.Does anyone have either one?
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Anon02/23/26, 04:47No.5103661
Guppy are cute and funny
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Anon02/26/26, 08:47No.5104638
>Be known as fish anon at work
>Get asked why their goldfish seem to be favouring the surface more recently (during summer)
Sounds like an oxygen deficiency
>So add more water?
Maybe, but that wont add more oxygen into the water. Do you have an airstone or filter or anything you can adjust to produce more turbulent return/bubbles?
>No. I'll just add more water.
Dude has an honors in horticulture or plants or something.Why even fucking bother asking?
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Anon02/26/26, 23:41No.5104821
>pigmies and otos hide all the time in the corner
>bought a new oto hoping to wncourage them
>new oto is exploring tank all over and gaining weight, the others keep on hidingwtf
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Anon02/27/26, 05:09No.5104905
best brand of hang-on-tank filter?
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Anon02/28/26, 00:43No.5105087
This is my fishe
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Anon02/28/26, 12:48No.5105211
its trying to flower AGAIN
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Anon03/01/26, 15:00No.5105563
My new bristlenose pleco died. Had been about two-three weeks so I guess it maybe starved? I had put in algae tablets but hadn't seen it take any, and didn't put them in at night, which was a mistake in retrospect.I'll wait for the tank to age and maybe get some algae and try again. I know they need a plant heavy diet.
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Anon03/01/26, 18:57No.5105602
Update on the new 60g tank with 25g sump. All is well, only one casualty from moving (and I think it was from physical injury when being caught) out of roughly 50 fish total. Considering a few more dwarf neon rainbows (one lfs has them 6 for $22) or some peacock gudgeons. Otherwise it's golden, and with enough filtration and plants (eventually) to not need changes often, I'm confident. Water is very hard and not terribly warm (73-75 so far in winter, in unheated but finished basement so likely won't be any/much more in summer).
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Anon03/03/26, 03:52No.5105933
ramshorns readily self regulate/reproduce as well. i got pink ones and get some gold and blue varieties sometimes, they're attractive and do great work. I haven't had to scrape algae in 6 months.very fond of them. even made a bucket to mass produce them for resale. people pay like $5/snail lol
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Anon03/04/26, 23:47No.5106373
Fuck plecos, I'm hillstream maxing now.Found this beauty at my local store, sold as (and looks like) a Lizhou hillstream loach. Gorgeous and not even a little shy. Also had my order of a bloody Mary hillstream loach come in from aquahuna, smol guy but very bright red caudal and dorsal fins.
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Anon03/06/26, 07:28No.5106667
Rate current state of my nano tank
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Anon03/06/26, 11:43No.5106692
keeping fish in aquarium shouldn't require that much maintenance
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Anon03/06/26, 19:24No.5106787
idk guys my tanks are pretty low maintenance. plants are underratted. no alage, no nitrates. have to add nutrients every couple days, but that's as fast as feeding fish.
i mostly just have to trim plants every other week, top off. every couple months do a few weeks of water changes to reset buildup from top offs.
and that's probably overkill
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Anon03/06/26, 21:07No.5106812
Tank is eternally hazy - this picture is taken edge-on. It looks alright from the front but the water definitely isn't good.
I've heard this can be due to overfeeding but if I "starve" the tank, won't I kill off all my cherry shrimp if they don't have scraps to scavenge?
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Anon03/07/26, 01:40No.5106895
>ludwigia palustris listed as Medium difficulty
>it's the fastest growing plant I have
>algae doesn't even touch it
wtf Dennerle
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Anon03/07/26, 03:29No.5106947
my plants are in a 1 gallon jar, no circulation, still alive somehow. I only do zero maintenance zero effort
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Anon03/07/26, 04:35No.5106961
Just got a new tank and a female Veiltail Betta. Any tips on doing a good transfer from its cup from the store into the new tank? Will room temperature water be ok? How often should I cycle the water in a 2.5 gallon tank?
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Anon03/07/26, 04:59No.5106973
no (You) for (You), faggot-kun
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Anon03/07/26, 05:23No.5106976
get cancer lol
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Anon03/07/26, 08:12No.5107003
Do you name your fish, /aq/?
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Anon03/08/26, 00:51No.5107129
Is there a way to tell if nerites are dead or just lazy? both of mine have 'fallen' off the glass, I flipped them back over but they're just sitting motionless on the sand for over a day now. they've always been extremely low energy.I don't want them to rot and pollute the water but I also don't want to toss sleeping snails in the garbage and kill them.
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Anon03/08/26, 11:22No.5107256
between fresh water and salt water aquariums,which requires the more maintenance? assuming both have "entry-level" fishes
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Anon03/09/26, 19:58No.5107641
technically it's lights off right now, mid day
all the cories just chill like this
but why the platy harassing him?it's the only platy in the tank of tetras, i rescued him from a tank I bought that he was left in. maybe he's trying to make friends ?
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Anon03/10/26, 07:49No.5107763
I want to make a patio pond like pic related. Anyone have tips? I want to plant everything, add bacteria, give it 3-4 weeks to adapt and then add fish, shrimp, maybe snails. Also considering a water proof LED somehow that I can turn on to make it look cool at night.
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Anon03/11/26, 17:41No.5108188
Shrimp population exploded in my tank. Now I have a new problem. Shrimp corpses. I'm sure I've always had them, but they were less visible before the population exploded.How do you deal with them? Right now I'm mushing up the corpse with tongs and they seem.to disappear soon after.
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Anon03/12/26, 00:17No.5108319
is aquariumscience.org legit? some of the info sounds great and highly scientific and some of it sounds like some boomer nonsense.
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Anon03/12/26, 01:27No.5108342
>water change done (A/N/N was 0.5, 1 and 20, gotta play it safe)
>nerites were dead and stinky, chucked 'em
>lost two shrimp, possibly old age?
>saw a tiny baby shrimp, got foam over the filter inlet
>need to remove all the A. ficoiedea, didn't do my research, it can only survive submergence half a year
>getting more Ludwigia and some Sagittaria ASAP
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Anon03/12/26, 02:58No.5108373
Any of you keep newts or salamanders?
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Anon03/12/26, 23:39No.5108639
>be only assassin snail in tank
>crawl into middle of chollah branch
>get stuck
>die
Fucking retard.
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Anon03/13/26, 01:32No.5108672
Are these eggs? All that's in this tank are African dwarf frogs and tiny snails. I've seen them "hugging" a few times so it wouldn't surprise me but the images online of ADF eggs look a bit different. It looks like a clear sack with a bunch of tiny white orbs in it while the ones on line look like clear orbs with black dots. Is this just the eggs at an earlier state of development, or skin shed in a weird way, or what?
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Anon03/13/26, 07:35No.5108722
Gave a sex hotel for my celestial pearl danios, great succes
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Anon03/13/26, 21:34No.5108864
Considering adding scuds and/or seed shrimp to my sump's ~5 gallon non-moving section. I figure some will be swept into the main tank, and most will live and eat the mechanically filtered detritus on the sponges and static media. Only issue I see is that section only fills to about 2 gallons deep most of the time, and flows fairly briskly.Thoughts? Anyone with experience? I want some population in the tank to improve overall ecosystem diversity but the rainbowfish would immediately genocide them.
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Anon03/14/26, 17:38No.5109075
fishes are the coolest animals there are
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Anon03/14/26, 17:46No.5109076
I don't have the current space or time for a tank that needs a lot of care, so I was thinking of raising some daphnia because they way they bounce around with their little antennae is very cute
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Anon03/15/26, 10:50No.5109234
>Open big bag of XTREME CRUMBLE
>Drop it on the carpet face down
Jesus FUCKASGNOSJ:DGN"OSDJKGHn'ol
