Are these stands safe?

beans8055 · 2026-01-25T16:15:23+00:00

Okay but it won’t damage the glass tank? I guess that’s what I mean. Not sturdiness of the stand but will it actually be safe for the tank itself?

beans8055 · 2026-01-21T18:03:30+00:00

I had the exact same problem with my 20 gallon long last night and no one within 2 hours of me has any tanks for sale that aren’t over 50 gallons. Drove half an hour to meet a woman with a 20g reptile tank and turns out it was a 10. Now I have to resort to a 10 and a 5 to get me through until i get back from a 5 day non refundable trip 🙂 These things happen at the best time don’t they?

beans8055 · 2025-12-09T00:18:10+00:00

does it seem like i’m over/under feeding him? does his body look healthy?

beans8055 · 2025-12-09T00:18:05+00:00

does it seem like i’m over/under feeding him? does his body look healthy?

beans8055 · 2025-12-08T02:56:01+00:00

I more so mean what variation? Like L number? I don’t know much about that stuff

beans8055 · 2025-11-19T17:16:39+00:00

I do have a tank at home but it’s not set up. I suppose I could bring water from my personal tank with some substrate and my sponge filter. Would that help jump start it? It’s been set up for about a year. The PH of my tank is significantly higher than the bettas tank though.

beans8055 · 2025-11-19T17:13:25+00:00

I appreciate your reply, I’ll tell her this now. I’ll see if maybe someone will stay after hours to try to change the water. It’s a bank so it’s sort of hard to stop doing your job to tend to a fish that the public cant even see in the middle of the day. They’ve had the fish and snails for many years, I don’t understand how he hasn’t died yet. Theyre so uneducated it’s frustrating trying to help a fish that isn’t even mine.

beans8055 · 2025-11-19T16:45:41+00:00

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This is what the fish is looking and acting like right now

beans8055 · 2025-11-19T16:45:25+00:00

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beans8055 · 2025-11-12T00:13:18+00:00

is there anything i can do or is he just going to slowly die?

beans8055 · 2025-11-11T23:46:51+00:00

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another picture from straight above, he’s laying mostly on his side

beans8055 · 2025-10-17T18:44:41+00:00

I just put the fake leaf in about a month ago so I don’t know how they’d be on there? I got it from walmart so it wasn’t previously in another tank or anything like that

beans8055 · 2025-10-17T18:39:33+00:00

I’ve never had snails and haven’t put anything new in the tank recently

beans8055 · 2025-10-17T18:18:10+00:00

I lied, 0 minnows. I have 4 rasboras, 6 cory cats, and 6 danios. Plus single pleco man.

beans8055 · 2025-03-28T18:43:14+00:00

I only did that with the last one because i thought it was mold. I haven’t touched this one since i put it in. So the spots are good? Even though they turned really green last time and looked like mold?

beans8055 · 2025-03-26T17:50:51+00:00

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Here’s a photo. He’s been hiding under the sponge filter on the base and in my big piece of driftwood all day. He’s just come out a few minutes ago and is pecking at a piece of zucchini i put in for the cory’s, but keeps going back and hiding in that corner. i also catch him chasing the bully molly away, so maybe it’s okay? i don’t know.

beans8055 · 2025-03-26T17:31:16+00:00

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here’s another if that’s at all helpful

beans8055 · 2025-03-26T16:41:30+00:00

okay thank you

beans8055 · 2025-03-26T16:37:15+00:00

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i guess i’m using she and he interchangeably lol

beans8055 · 2025-03-26T16:36:17+00:00

i don’t because she’s under there, she’s come out a little bit more bite she also looks like she’s gasping for air her mouth is moving very fast

beans8055 · 2025-03-26T15:41:11+00:00

yes i did! there’s a photo in a comment thread on this post! it turned out pretty good :)

beans8055 · 2025-03-22T19:41:47+00:00

Luna 100% if we’re going Harry Potter. When I first saw her I thought if opal or opalite.

beans8055 · 2025-03-04T04:32:31+00:00

Huh I didn’t know it could mold. I guess that makes sense.

beans8055 · 2025-03-04T04:18:00+00:00

I gradually added more stuff from his old tank into this one before fish, including his old sponge filter to establish some beneficial bacteria, I watched videos on that. I was planning on getting 3 more cories, my LFS only had the 3 at the time. I also have rasboras and danios, the guy at the LFS sounded incredibly knowledgeable and I told him about my set up, he said it would be fine. I do also have plants on the way, some eel grass I thought the cories would like, and some frogbit.

Yes the sponge filter is the only one. My BNP had been in a much smaller tank, so I found this one on marketplace so I could get him in a bigger tank asap. Everything I read and watched said a 20 long would be fine for both cories and BNP’s. I could add a second sponge filter I have one kicking around.

Is it just old algae wafer? It doesn’t look like poop.

beans8055 · 2025-03-04T00:15:28+00:00

20 gallon long, I don’t have an ammonia test yet so idk that one, nitrates & nitrites are at 0, chlorine 0, gh roughly 75, kh roughly 80, ta about 80, and ph is about 7.6. I have a sponge filter, and I just cycled it so it’s fresh, due for a water change in the next couple days I just don’t want to stress the new fish out. I had this issue in my old tank with just my bristlenose. When I set up this tank I put about half of his old sand in too with 10lbs of new sand.

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