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r/Aquariums

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.1K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.6Mmembers
7.1Kbest post
276most comments
620posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

30% 27% 17% 10% 10%
Image 30% Gallery 27% Video 17% Link 10% Text 10% Question 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Advice Needed 253 Showing Off My Tank 79 Beginner Help 59 Identification Request 48 Medical Help 43 Freshwater 38 Discussion 32 Requesting Feedback 15 Plants 13 DIY/Build 10

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Blue fish in a shallow city canal / river mouth

↑ 7.1K 💬 143 gallery 2026

The sole reason water changes and tank maintenance take me so long

↑ 4K 💬 148 image 2026

A very important meeting is in progress

↑ 2.9K 💬 45 image 2026

Tour of my basement, as requested

↑ 1.9K 💬 83 video 2026

My aquarium's shadow

↑ 1.1K 💬 9 video 2026

Wedding Gown Princess Betta

↑ 1.1K 💬 31 video 2026

I see a lot of people use Buddha statues so I wanted to try a Saint Francis of Assisi statue, patron saint of animals.

↑ 899 💬 67 image 2026

Need advice on rehabilitating a rescued arowana: feeding, nutrition and recovery

↑ 759 💬 49 video 2026

Update on the mystery crab - she’s accepted live bloodworms!

↑ 667 💬 33 video 2026

My first aquarium

↑ 458 💬 23 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Aquariums, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/Aquariums have?
r/Aquariums has about 1.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 620 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.1K upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Aquariums?
"Blue fish in a shallow city canal / river mouth" reached 7.1K upvotes and 143 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Aquariums.
What subreddits are similar to r/Aquariums?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota.
What kind of posts do best on r/Aquariums?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are image posts and 27% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Aquariums?
Across 620 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (733 avg upvotes), Monday at 08:00 UTC (141 avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (97 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Aquariums?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Aquariums has 160 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 310 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Aquariums, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.