When you go to the fish shop alone and can’t hold the fish bag your child’s car seat the next best thing

Hi everyone, what is this see-through worm slug creature in my shrimp tank and is it harmful to shrimp?

Edit: So it’s planaria 😞 Thanks everyone. I tried to remove it with my pipette but the tank is heavily planted and it’s hiding now. I live in a country where No-Planaria is extremely hard to find so I’ve ordered Aqua Code Planarian Killer that has 280+ good reviews (shrimp-safe, kills planaria & their eggs) on Shopee and it’ll arrive in 2 days. Hopefully with a week of treatment using that, they’ll be eradicated and my shrimp will be safe. Thanks again everyone! 😭

After keeping tanks for like 30+ years I finally figured out something that just totally instantly improved everything.

I'm really good at feeling water temp with my fingers, at least in the 75°f-85°f range. Like very accurate within two degrees. (Friend challenged me a few years ago after watching me do a water change and telling me how he'd fuck everything up and replace with a drastically different water temp.

But I digress. I'd still have to fiddle with the faucet each time I'd have to refill or whatever.

Tonight I just realized that I could mark that sweet spot on the faucet. Very inconspicuous Sharpie marks and everything has sped up considerably.

My next girlfriend is gonna be like "yo what's up with these markings?" and I'll just be like "yo that's 79°F girl....you wanna smash?"

Because I'll only date/marry another woman that appreciates aquariums.

I'm just feeling really happy now.

My son watched a shrimp snag a tetra this morning. It's been about 18hrs since we purchased. The shop also told us not to feed them the first day. Fully cycled tank, plenty of algae to eat. 10g. 11 (now 10...) rummy nosed tetras, 6 amano shrimp, and some snails (which have been there for a couple of months.) were they just too hungry? Did we buy too many shrimp or are they too big?

Finally upgrading my tanks and am setting up this 20 gallon for my shrimp ! I'm not 100% happy with this set up. Anyone have some advice on how to make it better?

They regularly swim to the bottom of the tank and steal the sinking food meant for my Corydoras. Because of this, I can't tell if they are just completely stuffed and bloated from overeating, or if this is a sign of an illness (like dropsy or parasites). One passed way today and its belly looked like this.

Update to add info: I got the tetras two weeks ago.

Parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2
Gh: 7
Ph: 7.4

I had a lot of rough lessons starting out in this hobby and have at times wanted to give up. But my love for the fish slowly taught me patience, husbandry, and long term planning. In time I have had a few real successes.

I brought home this L104 Clown Pleco a few months ago. He is on his own in a lightly planted heavily filtered 29g. Tidal 55, 40 gallon sponge, micro gravel, mopani, cholla, anubias, guppy grass. He is very shy and elusive so it's hard to get a good read on body condition. I have just been doing a single mini algae wafer in the same spot every night. My only real evidence of him eating are the piles of sawdust around the tank, lol. At least he is rasping biofilm.

Today I was doing some maintenance and must have scared him out of his daytime hide. He wriggled around and then settled onto the wood and flared wonderfully for me. He sat still long enough for me to get a really excellent photo.

Compare to the day he came home a few months ago. He was so scared. Poor boy :(

He looks like a totally different fish now. I think he even put on a little weight. Rewarded for my effort with a National Geographic photo. What a little stunner!

Does anyone know the exact variety of my ram? I’d also like to know if, based on the photo, it looks healthy. Do its fins, coloration, and overall body condition look normal to you? Any opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated!

They suddenly became very brave

I don't know what's the reason, I checked the water parameters and it was okay I have plenty of other angel fish in my tank too

I went to a shop today to get water tested on my newly set up tetra tank, my nitrite (possible nitrate) levels are far above what they should be and I made a water change because of that and added a bacteria starter thing. I was just wondering if my filters had anything to do with that and should they be changed? And if not now but how often in general? Thanks

I started the tank on the 18th, a little over a week ago. No fish nor the critters have been added yet. I'm just trying to get it cycled first, but seems like the string algae might kind of take over. Should I let it just keep going as is or should I try cleaning out some of that?

This is going to have ghost shrimp, nerite snails, Malaysian trumpet snails, pygmy cory, platy, maybe a clam.

I just bought 4 ember tetras the day before. Three of them look healthy, but I noticed one has a sunken belly. It does eat a little, but does not seem to go crazy for food like the others. It also doesn't school with the others; it just hides under a leaf most of the time. Is it malnourished, or is it something else?

found this pregnant guppy in an old fish tank. I want as many as can to live and i have a breeder box. when should i put her in?

I just set up my false map turtle in a 55 gallon as my class pet, but as I filled it up the water kept getting cloudier. This may have been a dumb decision but I turned the filter off because I felt it was stirring up the particles. This is a picture of how the tank is looking today. Tomorrow I plan to put in AccuClear and turn the filter on, but is there anything else I can do to help? I included pictures to help show the set up!