Krobus

I got this 5 gallon or so tank a while ago and have been using it as a quarantine tank for a while but i checked the bulb and it looked like this😅 I have anubias clippings in there and i want the light to be good for plants, i want to give it a good clean too but dont know how, any tips? it has this white residue on it, and its already been given a good cleaning by me, should i go back and clean again? this tank is super old according to the friend i got it from also should i just scrap the lid and make a new one? i could just use a spare light then, it works to keep my cat out for now aha but its broken and very old😅

its growing attached to a piece of wood, i just clip of parts of the rhizome (with at least 1 leave) whenever it gets too tall

i had mostly black gravel with 1/4th black sand for my kuhli loaches and corydoras, but i just added a 5 pound bag of white sand on top of the black gravel on a whim and it looks okay😂the corys love it already they are constantly on the other side of my tank now, also bought some cute little ghost shrimp, they are very lively and like sitting on the wood and eating all the algae that has built up over the months pretty sure orange juice is prego, im excited to see if any of her fry survive:D i have two other VERY prego blueish platys they have been hiding in the java moss for forever but came out for feeding today finally! was almost worried something happened to them since i havent seen them in almost two weeks😅 (i have no clear pics oops) also im getting into growing aquarium plants for profit, any tips? i made like $16 dollars by selling some anubias clippings recently, so realized after i could make some spare money off my hobby, who woulda thought?! will probably charge more next time now that i know how much plants that size sell for in stores ehe:3 but i have no idea what im doing or how much to charge, i have 5 more clippings already i just dont know if i should grow them bigger, sell them now, if so how much, its a lot lol, each clipping has 1-2 big leaves should i let them grow a bit more? also its my dream to have live terrestrial plants as a backround instead of some picture from a petstore, i got the idea when i pulled my desk (with fishtank) from the wall to clean it and ended up liking being able to look behind the tank at everything hiding from me🥲 i just think itd be cool to have like a jungle of plants behind my fishtank, almost as if the scape continues beyond the glass too bad i cant keep normal plants alive for the life of me, i always overwater, that’s why aquatic plants are no problem and the only ones i keep🥲

Hi! I’m an Oregon resident. I have been keeping fish for like all my life, my mom got me and my little sister the usual livebearers, kuhli loaches, african dwarf frogs, and bettas (luckly never in bowls!) as kids. We didn’t really know what we were doing… I got a ten gallon tank about 4 years ago and had about 3-4 platys at a time in it, all fake decor and such. It’s only recently, like two years ago I upgraded to a 40 gallon for my platys and got a betta, my last platy is 4 years old now!! I have live plants and kuhli loaches again as well as 12 black neon tetras. My betta Kosho was in a sad sorority situation but she is super sweet with the right company, she only ever eats the occasional platy fry, which, fair, I would too. (The black neon and all my neons actually were adopted, the one with the bump on her chin is named Bumpy and the one with the bump on his back and long tail is Lumpy.) (Also, the silverish white and red platy (named white) is the 4 year old one, she looks a bit more sickly now, moved to the hospital tank, but still kicking and living her best life!) I get very chatty when it comes to my pets lol Also my mice couldn’t resist:3