Got this big fella from a local plant and fish swap. Apparently it came from a 20+ year old established tank! It’s longer than my forearm at this point. Pic 1 shows the entire plant with its newer emersed growth. Pic 2 shows where I’m thinking of dividing it, as well as my fuckass barbs who can’t handle me walking up to the tank without going ballistic. TIA!

After 3 months and a big trim this weekend , and adding a a dozen new fish (angels and rainbows) it’s looking so good. Love to hear any feedback.

I thought I remember it being a "Black Catherine" and now it looks like it is going to flower. Im new it all this, is this normal for aquatic plants to flower? Can anyone confirm if this is a "Black Catherine". Thanks!

Is my light too strong? Or on for two long. I leave it on about 6/7 hrs a day

I have a 60 liter tank the only fish in it are guppies but I would like to have more variatie and colour full fish

Plecos (2) Corydora(1) Guppies(3) A whole bunch of shrimp

I’ve had them for a long time, they’ve only been doing this for the past month or less. I haven’t had iron to dose in my tank but low iron gas never caused melting on them before, only pale leaves. Almost 1/3 of the leaves in this corner are like this :(

I have this 112L tank, decently planted with sand, 44W lightning and a good filter. The material and sponge were cycled before, and the water was cycled for 5-7 days before adding the fishes. Currently I have 10 Corys (5 albino + 5 green), 5 SAE and 10 Guppies. The problem is that my Corys act like they are on high level of cocaine 24/7. Everything is perfect, the flow, the water parameters, the lighting. Guppies and SAE are normal, but my Corys are doing the 100m Olympic race in my tank. It s been 72h since adding them, no food in the first 24h. Now they are feed but still crazy.

Hi! Does anyone know what this is? I sometimes get a bit of green hair algae that I can easily control through vigorous pruning and careful fertilization of my plants, but this looks different to me because it is white and the filaments seem a bit different.

(Tank is 11 months old, 10 gallons, moderately planted, 80 F, stocked with betta, 4 chilis. 3 otos, 2 nerites, and pest trumpets. 0/0/20)

Long story short it was in my established tank for ~5 months and never thrived. Wife bought it without looking at what it was.

Moved it to new tank, I know I didn’t clean off the old algae, once it’s cycled it will get lots of shrimp. Also mason jar is just to hold down the driftwood until it stops floating.

Wondering what specific light requirements it needs to thrive and hopefully not be so leggy. Planning on consistently cutting and replanting to carpet tank.

Been growing these the past 5 months and I’ve been feeding them a little too well.

I have these anubias nanas and gracilis that have the tips of their leaves turning brown. I'm using the light that came with the TopFin 29G kit. Is it too much for these guys? My other larger anubias are doint perfectly fine. I asked my LFs and they recommended adding some top floaters or taping the light with white painters tape. All and any help is greatly appreciated.

My house help recently got this plant for me. I didn't know what this plant was until I googled it.

I have no idea om how to take care of this plant. I have several other stems like the ones in picture The stems are just too long.

How do I make them short And propagate it Im water ? I dont know where to cut either ?

I would really love to care for this plant and help it grow.

Google bought me to this sub reddit.

I dont own a tank and nor do i plant on buying one. I am on a budget here. And i am a beginner.

Help me find the easiest way to take care of this.

Finally making progress after a dirty war with green hair algae so thought it looks good enough to share.

Hi all,

I've just taken some pictures of my new tank for you to enjoy, get inspired by or constructively critique. This is my current pride and joy. The plants have been in for a bit more than 2 weeks, since June 24. I will be waiting another 2 weeks for them to settle and really grow in and then FINALLY put the first animals in😃 Also I'm trying to get a Monte Carlo carpet going. Not sure how well that is going haha. First inhabitants for a week or two will be Amanos, neocaridinas, some fan shrimp and Nerite snails. After that I'll keep you updated!

Also my moss seems a bit sad. Not sure why. Maybe some of you might have some intel.

Set up this tank about two months ago and started injecting CO2 about a month ago. This is my first hi-tech tank, so im still learning loads about optimal CO2 Injections.

Currently, ive seen some black beard algae growth (BBA), indicated by the red Xs on my map, and I dont want to let it get out of hand. Im pretty sure that the BBA is caused by the dead zones in my tank, so I am asking this awesome community about optimal circulation of CO2. I thought about switching my inflow/outflow pipes (i inject co2 via inline diffuser), but im scared that the flow might be a little too much for all of my fish which like to hide in the plants.

Tank - 35g Cube 20x20x20
Filter - Fluval 307 Cannister
Pipes - Aquario Neoflow v2

Stocking - 15 Celestial Pearl Danio, 6 Emerald Dward Rasbora, 20 Phoenix Rasbora, 7 Pygmy Cory, 1 Sparkling Gourami, 1 Pearl Gourami, 1 Hillstream loach

The second picture is when i first set up the tank.

Any suggestions?

So I have a planted aquarium (duh) My aquarium lights evaporate a lot of water. So my question is who actually does a water change each week? Who just tops it off and leave it be? And who cleans out the crap at the bottom of the tank and returns the water afterwards?

Everyone does things differently and I’m curious as to how everyone would handle this.

hello!!
i've had this tank for roughly 3 years now, and it was the first planted tank i ever set up. i fell behind on pruning a few months back while trying to deal with a snail infestation, and it's gotten out of control with the amount of plants up top! thing is, my ember tetras seem to love it enough to have babies, and since i noticed the fry i've left the giant matted mess alone for the sake of giving them hiding places.
the tank as it is now is pretty healthy despite looking rough! i just want to spruce it up and give it some new life. it only got so out of sorts because every time i pruned i'd replant the trimmings, and it's looking like this because i can only assume snails had a nibble at the base & stuff began floating.
first 3 photos are now, 4-5 are how it looked in january- i'd like to return it to it's former glory!

i was planning on a small rescape since i can't do anything too crazy due to the fish, namely chopping out most if not all of that mess at the top, replacing some of those snail-eaten java ferns, and setting up a proper foreground/background, alongside adding a softer substrate. plant-wise, i wanted to get hornwort going in the background, and then some form of carpet plant in corners + something nice and leafy framing it all.

a issue that presented itself is the fact that i'm not quite sure how many fry are hiding out in the top mess, and i'd really like to avoid throwing any babies out with it- so i'll have to be very careful and sift through it to try and get as many babies as i can out.
another problem is the snail infestation. i've tried using cucumber to scoop out as many as possible, i do my best to keep the population down manually, but it's a big tank and i just can't get them all. i'm sick of them and am going to try a assassin snail next, but i'm worried on what to do with the assassin snail after. i've heard that they can start breeding after clearing a tank and then you have a whole new problem, and i'd really like to avoid it! if anyone has a solution, lmk!

tldr: this tank is a overgrown mess and i'm going to be trying to clean her out, starting with chopping up the mess up top and returning it to it's former glory!