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Mine with plastic lids. I removed the lights and still use them but everything else went away.

Yea I was surprise that the top fin lids did not fit the top fin tanks. The tanks I got were part of a kit that had a very poor canopy, filter, heater, and light, all for a price less than just a tank. The accessories were poor quality in my opinion but I like the tanks. I have no experience...

I have two top fin tanks. The manufacturing on both is quite good, reasonable silicone seals, thicker glass (they are both talls), bevelled edges on the exposed glass edges. Mine have an issue though and that is they do not have standard size tops. So if you break a glass top or want to fit...

If you have a basement why not get a long hose and run the hose to the basement through the normal access into the basement. There will be some resistance to the flow with a longer hose but you can have a 100' or longer hose and still have enough vacuum with an 8' drop, ie from the tank to the...

Your venus flytrap is beautiful, I wish mine would grow like that. I just brought mine out of winter dormancy and it is looking rough. Nepenthes needs soft water and high humidity, depending on the cultivar or species it may need pretty high lighting as well.

I have one angelfish that had a prolapse on occasion. I traced it to when they got frozen bloodworms for a treat. The angel would gorge on the bloodworms and a day or two later he would develop an issue. I corrected the issue by putting the blood worms in the current flow so that they would...

4" of drop is not a lot to maintain a syphon. The python systems have a siphon systems that when you run your tap water through it generates a vacuum that powers the siphon, picture the old water bed draining systems. That is wasteful of water but works to allow you to vacuum your low tank...

Unless you have a really high fish population, or feed excessively, I don't see how Nitrates can be the issue with a 50% weekly water change cycle, assuming any accumulated waste is removed from the tank during water changes. It is possible to lose your cycle if some treatment that kills the...

Personally if your test strips have been stored well, ie cool, dark, and dry, I don't think they would have the same issue. But if the strips were opened and left in humid conditions at any time I would consider them suspect. When I started testing, raised fish most of my life without testing...

The lack of nitrates could be a result of the test. I and others have noted that the nitrate test is the most difficult to complete accurately with some of the test kits. The issue is that one of the reagents needs to be highly agitated before use, and if this is not done then the test will...

I enjoyed reading about the subterranean fish. As an ex-caver I found it particularly interesting.

As the tank becomes shallower your choices for filtration system reduce simply because you don't have the room for the filter. If you are using a foam filter you need some depth to provide lift of the water though the filter, you could use the internal filters such as the Fluval U1?, (I have...

FYI I would suggest that 40 ppm of nitrates is too high, you will need some water changes to bring that down, 20ppm at water change time is the highest I would allow, but I target 10ppm or less. 8 seems high for the pH as well. I wonder what is driving that up, normally pH drops unless there...

If you do large water changes, which I do, your water has less time to allow the water pH to fluctuate wildly. The test kit is just giving a general range. Some fish, thinking mostly South American fish, prefer low hardness and lower/mid pH ranges. If a test kit gives a range and you are...

Ammonia, Nitrite, and high Nitrates could slow the healing or even make things worse, so in that regard the water parameters can affect the recovery.

In this case no. My hardness is 0 KH and 1 sometimes 2 GH. The only issue would be if your pH drops rapidly due to lack of buffering. I raise Angels and have seen similar damaged lips if they lock lips, doesn't happen often but it does happen from time to time. Be aware that any injury is a...

I am pretty confident your angel fish has had an injury. The second set of images show that the upper lip has also been involved, with a bit of a bruise on the skin between the lip and the mouth. There is nothing you can do except keep the tank clean and try to identify what might have...

5 Gallon tank would be reasonable easy to build using all glass construction. There are a number of sites that describe the process and how to get the correct thickness of glass, here is one https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/aquarium-glass-thickness#aquarium-glass-thickness-calculator...

One item of concern is your nitrites (NO2) at 0.5ppm. Nitrites are quite poisonous, I would suggest that there is a problem with your cycle. In my opinion you might be seeing a fish that is more susceptible to nitrite poisoning. I would do a 50% water change ASAP if I was in the same...

I will let you know I don't have a lot of experience with diseases or treatments other than ich. Answering some of the questions below might help other's with more experience come up with possible solutions to your problems: What is the water waste/nutrient levels - Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate -...

For the carpet getting wet the only thing I have found to be effective is to use a wet dry vacuum, followed by a number of days running fans, if you have a dehumidifier I would put it in your room. It would be best to move the tank if you can because any moisture in the flooring will wick up...

The molly looks pretty short. I would suggest that you have a balloon molly, they are fish that are breed to look short and plump. If not a balloon variety I would say it is too large and may be either over feed, or not particularly healthy.

I have no doubt that the plants from the growers may be quite clean, but, the local fish stores here place the plants into tanks that are not necessarily clean rather than into special tanks that just have plants, and I doubt that all suppliers ensure their holding tanks are free from potential...

I had a white spot growth similar to @MattW3344 did on a Betta, but might was on the fleshy part of the tail. The growth on my betta would grow, then shrink then grow again. I examined the fish mid way under a microscope but could find anything. Eventually after a year of this the fish...

Wood I have no issues putting against the glass. I don't like to put rocks against the glass because I feel eventually you will scratch the glass which I find looks pretty bad, and partially because a single slip when placing the rock can be the end of the glass.

I am curious how this question gets answered. I haven't heard of using Sodium Bicarbonate for a plant dip. Traditionally I use a bleach dip for 1 to 2 minutes in a 1:20 solution of normally concentrated bleach. It works well but at 2 minutes it will adversely affect some plants, so an...

I can confirm it is not Ich, Ich presents as a bunch of white spots the size of salt grains. Unfortunately I cannot say what the growth is. One of the first things I would do is keep the tank very clean, vacuum gravel and do more frequent water changes. There are others in forum that are...

I was wondering if it was perhaps Nostoc - a cyanobacteria but that doesn't quite look right. Any chance of a closer picture. The surface looks fuzzy, perhaps a type of black beard algae, is the only thing I have been able to find.

Not entirely sure but looks like a type of colonial algae of some sort. Pretty sure I have seen it in freshwater streams but never in a tank. I am intrigued. Started looking it up, haven't found anything. Is the wood from a stream in Montana, I used to live just North of the border and I am...

Water siphon with long hose so that water can be sent down the drain or run into the garden or lawn. Water filling hose with valve on end so water can be turned off at the tank. This can be a garden hose or combined with the water siphon as in the Python systems. I don't find much use for the...

Looks nice.

Sorry to hear about your tank issues. I would have thought an Acrylic tank would be more reliable. Please let us know what failed on the tank.

If your tank runs across the boards there is a high chance that your tank is lined up with only one or two joists underneath the boards. I have a 277 litre and 144 litre setup side by side in my upstairs room. Before I set them up I reviewed the static and dynamic load values for the upper...

I believe with the ultra sonic misters your only option is truly setting them up with a duty cycle as @seangee suggests, or setting them up with a humidity sensor and a control unit, which some orchid growers do, again on/off. These misters do create a fine calcium carbonate dust which adheres...

I would do large water changes vacuuming up as much of the material while doing so. Bacterial blooms tend to burn through the nutrients then settle down if you don't keep feeding them, so I might start feeding my fish less if they look well fed.

looks to be some sort of biofilm, a history of the tank might be helpful. I will say it does not look like any algae I have encountered.

I have a Helvola dwarf waterlily, I tried twice to get it to grow in an aquarium and in both attempts it would not take or thrive. I will be trying again this year but use a larger trim piece from the original. The parent plant has been outside for over 20 years now. The Helvola might require...

Curious how the fish are doing after a few months. Psyllium works for people, why not fish.

Good luck, my Angel fry refused to eat those, but you might have better luck. In my experience you are entering the phase with the highest mortality rate, so don't get discouraged. On my first few breeding attempts I didn't get any fry beyond a few days. The first batch to get a juvenile I...

I went from 2 tanks planned to 6 after raising angel fry, they are very prolific once you work out the issues. For growing out I used 10, 20, then 60 gallon tanks. You only have 10 fry so that will not be too bad. I used foam filters, two potted plants, in the bare bottom 10 gallon tank to...