fresh water

I know this site mainly focuses on saltwater as does our company, but recently we started selling freshwater fish like goldfish, koi, discus, angelfish, and plecos. I myself have a couple freshwater tanks and ponds, and freshwater is what got me started in the fish keeping hobby. I know there...

Hi R2R! I maintain a software platform called "Krill" - originally for my own purposes for automating my aquariums, vivariums, and aquaponics but stable enough for everyone to use. It's meant for controlling systems, recording data and creating state machines that execute a ton of possible...

Hello everyone, My wife and I are trying to slowly get into having a fresh water tank in our home, Our kids love seeing them when we go to the dentist. We bought a 20 gallon high tank and we believe we have everything we need. She is wanting to get Red eye Tetras and like 2-3 bottom feeders. But...

Hi all! So I have a fresh water planted tank (2 weeks old) and I’ve been very confused on some conflicting information on the internet. My tank is a UNS 16 gallon AIO…using Seachem Tidal Matrix in pouch and two bio blocks that came with the tank, and some Marineland bio balls. I chose to use...

I there the package out and can no longer return it. It’s brand new never used.

Hi reefers, I was hoping to get some opinions/tips and what fish I should get and how to keep one. (Although I’ve done hours and hours of research on my own for each of these.) So far my top choices are: Peacock mantis shrimp (top choice always wanted one) Mudskipper Largemouth bass (I know...

I just wanted to start a thread about the progress on our current setup. These are both Nuvo 15’s side by side on a large aquarium stand. I recently became more physically disabled and I’m unable to care for many tanks or larger tanks. These are both of the last tanks I currently own sadly. I...

Hello I have a quick question and I come to r2r BC one everyone here is amazing much better ppl here on r2r then other forum sites! I would like your feed back on my sick koi, yes my freshwater koi! I been in the hobby for quite sometime now and I just got into keeping koi! the fish I got off...

Hi, I am new here. I am trying to get started with a fresh water tank but only looking to do real plants. I will be getting a 20 or 25 gallon tank. Any help would be appreciated. I am going to have a beta & shrimp I do know that. Need help with also tank mate ideas. Any help anyone could give...

Hello fellow fish keepers , hope all of you are doing great and staying safe. So after a loooong pause i want to get back to fish keeping but due to some health issues (back issues and not able to lift heavy) i want to start with freshwater and if i feel i can do it again health wise and time...

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We got my parents old aquarium to give junior a bit of usefull cinema and I get to implement it. I therefore get to play around with technology (especially Reef-Pi) as much as I like ^^ Thought I'd share the project with you and get some usefull input.

This is probably a silly question but I’m going to ask anyway. I have a tank that I’ve had up for a few weeks of fresh water fish and a snail. I kept going back and forth if I wanted to do salt or fresh started with fresh now I’m gonna go to salt since that’s what I really want. My question is...