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AQUARIUM: For all the hobbyists and professionals out there!!! 🐠🐡🐟🍤🦪🐙🦑🐚

The premier community for aquarium hobbyists and aquascapers of all experience levels. Whether you manage a 5-gallon nano tank or a 75-gallon community ecosystem, join us to share your setups, ask for advice, and discuss fishkeeping. Check out our quick links below to get started. **Icon art credit: u/SuicidalFlame - https://firenagy.tumblr.com/ ** **Banner photo credit: Eamosaurus**

177k subscribers1,432 posts / mo in Sep 20261,097 authors / mosince 2009

r/aquarium has 177k members (+19% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,432 posts a month from 1,097 people. Top topics: Tank Stocking, Planted Tanks and Betta Care Issues.

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Size and growth

How r/aquarium has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+19%in 12 months · +3.8% in 3 months · +0.8% in 1 month
Oct 2026176k
Growing176k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/aquarium

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+27%vs Sep 2025 · −5.3% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.4k
BusierPeaked at 1.7k in Mar 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/aquarium

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Tank Stocking3.5%
  2. Planted Tanks2.7%
  3. Betta Care Issues2.7%
  4. FishHealthIssues2.7%
  5. Betta Care2.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Aquarium Co-Op
  2. AqAdvisor
  3. Aquarium Science
  4. etsy
  5. FishLab

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Everything else about r/aquarium

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research