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I know, the dirt was supposed to be a natural look. I know about the Java Fern, it was attached to a rock before all the dirt floated up. But that's not the point I really need help with this

I rinsed the dirt before putting it in and it sat in the tank for a day till I started aqua scaping. I put plastic over the substrate to hopefully not disturb but my fear came true and I created mud.

I live in the south where it only snows about once a year. The turtles are sliders. The goldfish are about 6 inches, so may be too big for the turtles to eat, but the turtles have been fed live fish before.

So I can keep the goldfish outside during winter and it should be fine? But the turtles would need to be brought in?

I have two common goldfish in a 5 gallon, and I plan to upgrade to a 300-gallon stock pond when I can afford it. However, my parents would also like to put the turtles in the pond as well. I don't want the turtles to potentially harm the goldfish. So, I can either try to find a way to divide the...

My tank is two years old. I have platies. I use a sponge filter. And I have a 20 gallon

I don't know how to tell what the specifications are

I have a sponge filter. Is hydrogen peroxide safe with fish?

I limit the lighting to 7 hours a day or less, I've tried snails and fish that eat the algae. (I did get shrimp at one point, but I acclimated them wrong and knowing they're that sensitive makes me hesitant to try again) I tried a plastic scraper, magnetic scraper, and an actual sharp blade...

I suspect my betta had pretty bad fin rot, since part of his fin was falling off. I gave him medication (don't remember what it was called) There was specific instructions to leave the filter flowing. During the treatment, the initial damaged fin came off and another part of his fin came off...

Should I feed him or not feed him? I could see some poop hanging so I thought it'd be best not to feed him, but if he's skinny he needs to get his weight back up.

I’ve noticed this thing attached to his fin. (Sorry for the quality) I’ve also noticed some poop hanging out so I’m not gonna feed him today, but I’m mostly concerned about whatever is attached to him. He’s also been hiding behind the filter.

At least it's clean.

I thought Chicklid was the correct pronunciation.

Lack of water changes. As a kid my parents did tell me to do water changes on my tank, but I never kept up with them. Even though I didn't test the water, I'm assuming my early fish deaths were from bad water quality, because when the weak fish were moved to new water to monitor them in, they...

I'm not talking about metal tools specifically marketed towards tanks, but more so any metal. I looked it up and the answer was no, but that was answering the context of metal decorations. I mean like putting scissors in the tank to cut plants, using tweezers to aquascape, scraping off algae...

He is on day two of fasting now since I noticed he was bloated. He's been sitting in the bottom corner of the tank. I've checked on him to make sure he's still alive, he doesn't seem to have any problems swimming, it just seems like it's more comfortable for him to stay there as he swims back...

I know this already.

There were two adult males, one female adult, and a lot of babies in the tank. I meant to get more females than males, but the store gave me another male. Today I found one of the males dead. Could a male platy kill another male over a female? I don't think I saw any signs of injury on the dead...

I had a betta in a 5 gallon, with heater and filter. The other day I realized she was acting really lethargic. I realized her heater wasn't working like it was supposed to. So, since this was an emergency situation, I took the heater from my other tank to place it in her tank, so she didn't...

No, definitely not used for cleaning. I store the bucket in my room. It's surprisingly not reached cold temps where I live. She was the only fish I lost so I don't think it was the last one.

Update: She passed away. As I feared, she didn't make it as of this morning. I'm fairly confident her gills aren't moving anymore. Rip little fish, died too soon.

The sad part is, she's not even that old. I've only had her for a couple months, unless something happened to her at the store that made her weak.

I turned it back on. She's swimming sideways, but still moving. I threw away the bottle so I can't recheck the dosage, but I think it's hard to have too much so maybe I should put more in from my other bottle.

I thought I was getting the hang of water changes, and then this happens. Let me tell you how I do my water changes. First, I unplugged both heater and filter. Then stick the siphon in and siphoned out all the gunk within the substrate until the water looks 25% drained. I take the bucket into...

I just got a sponge filter since my other filter stopped working. Even though the main filter is malfunctional, I don't want to remove it right away because I could risk crashing the cycle. So, how long after having the sponge filter in can I take out the broken filter? Another problem. The...

(Sorry if it's bad quality, there's algae on the walls. But that's not the main point I want to discuss.) There is this brown ball floating in my fish tank. It's not sitting on the decor; it's floating in the middle of the water. I have no idea what it is. The last time I added anything new to...

So, I need to drip acclimate shrimp instead of traditional acclimation. Good to know if I want to try shrimp again

I acclimated them the same way I do anything in the tank, I floated them in their bag for like 15 minutes then released.

I hope they're just hiding but I found one dead so at least one is dead from unknown causes.

I have a few grown fish but the ghost shrimp I got were pretty big compared to all the other shrimp at the store. I acclimated them the same way I do with all aquatic life I put in the tank, float the bag for like 15 minutes so they adjust to temp then release.

I did look it up beforehand, and results were mixed. One thing said it depends on the fish. So, I thought that either I'm giving my fish a live snack, or the shrimp will survive. They were ghost shrimp, bigger than the other shrimp at the store so I thought they'd be fine.

I had bought five shrimp just a day ago. Later last night I only counted two. Today I can't see any. I siphoned the gravel, nothing. Then I picked up some decorations and found one dead body. I think they might've all died but I can't find more bodies and I don't want to cause an ammonia spike...

I was doing a water change when I noticed one of my platy fry in the bucket. I had already dumped out most of the water. I probably didn't notice him at first because water isn't the only thing that gets sucked out (Gunk, fish poop, my sand if I'm not careful). Since the bucket was nearly empty...

It was a HOB.

I was trying to reattach the suction cups, it stayed for like a minute then fell back down. In that timespan, I plugged the filter back in. There's no reaction at all. No water movement, no noise, nothing. It's dead. I'm probably going to see why sponge filters are so highly talked about and get...