Cory

If it was my personal tank in a building I own. I would trust it. The only thing I really care about is diagonally, you don't want the aquarium "twisting". Otherwise, for me personally as long as the water level stays above the black trim on the lowest side, I'm happy. I do make a reasonable attempt to level something, but at a certain point it's not worth the effort.

Hard to say if I had hydra. I didn't see any, but the water was very green. So could have been anything. But to my knowledge no fish had ever lived in that tote yet.

I tried those, mine failed. Had 100 gallons of green water. Never saw any daphnia. Not sure where mine went wrong.

Shipping to the us is currently stalled u til we find a better solution. as far as a Swiss store. I’d answer I’m not sure. The first question is, how big is the first order? If it was large we would then spend the 2-4 weeks with 3 people building out the process. Accountants would start the permits and such. Then the logistics team would start figuring out rate quotes and timelines. Then the warehouse team would put in a process to facilitate pickup and packaging for that destination. Add in another process on how we’d accept the order, and figure out how to not make that a manual process. Likely requires a second website build. In real talk, anything short of like 50k isn’t worth investigating for how much time and energy goes into just getting a real look at how to pull it off wholesaling to another country.

I’m not sure I understand “ rules on return per week. Do you mean customers returning product? Or ordering frequency as a store? Neither of those have any specific rules.

I'm not part of the research process. But I do know that name. Cause I was in a meeting with Randy when that came through and he said, Sweet there is a fish store named Randy's fish palace. So I can confirm we at least received it.

I haven't had problems with ich x, and general cure was safe when I used it. Also prazi pro. maracyn, erythromycin both safe in my experience as well.

I recommend manual removal. Also what plants do you have, are they getting enough to eat? healthy plants will help fight off the algae by denying them nutrients. The problem with an algaecide, you'll kill the algae, create a bunch of ammonia, which fuels more algae to grow unless you do big water changes. Which if you are doing the big water changes anyway, you wouldn't have as much algae growin.. So there isn't really a product that is just add this and you won't have algae, it's product + work = less algae. But work without product also = less algae.

Correct, there is a review process. We don’t let anyone sell who we don’t think will be a good fit for our customers.

Easy green should be just fine to use in brackish.

This is in the wrong section, should have been off topic. On top that that, this doesn't warrant it's own thread. I saw the weird shower thoughts, and said, lets see how this goes. This second one is just not needed.

The problem is, the average aquarist sees an expanded belly and says, must be dropsy. The reality is, it could be many different things from constipation, to being egg bound, to organ failure, and many more. All of these things have different things that could help or not. No med is going to fix organ failure for example. If it were egg bound, in some cases epsom salt could help relax muscles and it could pass it, or not. This is what makes helping people with sick fish so hard, is the diagnosis, not so much the treatment.

It's the light I've been developing. It will hopefully release by the end of the year. We keep experiencing covid delays. Currently our lights are manufactured, but stuck at the factory the last 2 weeks due to covid lockdown mandate in china.

With a budget of $50, I'd only buy anubias. Cause I could grow it with probably just fish poop and over time I could get enough to trade for other things.

I’d say no, as it’s not the right spectrum.

Look up seed shrimp and see if you think they look similar in real life. Picture makes it hard.

How many root tabs did you put under the sword? My experience is a sword that size eats a root tab a week. I'd probably put 3 or 3 under there a month for a few months to watch the grow really take off.

I believe this is where so many people go wrong. Plant or fish X lives in these parameters in the wild and they'll do well in these parameters. The problem is, the plants and fish are 30 years removed from the wild. They've only known life at uncle jims farm with his local water parameters. Farms don't change parameters to suit, they only keep what suits their parameters. To me this is no different than watching a documentary on kids in the Sahara desert who walk a couple miles each day in 120 degree heat to get to school and back. Now you have a kid, welp, guess I need to move to Arizona, put a parka on them, and march them to school and back to mimic these parameters. The trees in my yard are struggling, dying branches and such from no water. Someone could observe, look how drought tolerant these are, they've gone 120 days without water. This gets put on a website and now people think, oh, these trees are great for drought resistance. In reality this tree wants gallons of water every day and is barely hanging on. It's the middle of October, and no rain in Seattle yet.. unheard of. But people have a bias for, I was there and saw this, and therefore this is what is best. Myself included, I often have to remind myself that what I see in Peru, with wild fish and such, doesn't mean that is the norm, and could be abnormal. Last thing, using our planters with gravel, root tabs and crypts, if put into the tank with the aquasoil, won't change anything for you. It's the aquasoil dragging down the pH that I'd wager is half your problem compared to the parameters that these plants have actually been cultivated in.

Specifically paleatus were talked about as one of the first corydoras to breed in yesterday's talk 😉

I'm not gonna get into the drama. But some people you suggest, will never get a platform on aquarium co-op. If you're looking for higher level content, have you become a member? We hire a professional in their field for $500 for a talk each month, and buy them a webcam and a microphone. Yesterday was a talk on breeding corydoras and it was awesome. It was more towards getting into breeding, and as a 30 year veteran, maybe you'd enjoy the talk on corydoras we had many months ago about their toxins and the 1 lab who is studying it etc. As for Randy and Robert. They've been busy and we did try to schedule to have Randy on this last month but he was only flying into town when I was away traveling. Robert will likely be in a unboxing soon coming up. I think sometimes people forget that the employees have full time careers they're dedicated to and the video part ends up happening on their "extra" time as obligations to the business only grow in those high level roles.

2x 36 inch lights to cover a 125. We hope they launch before Christmas. we are working on averting a product listing up so people can be notified.

I'd say most of those crypts you are trying, want to be emersed, or very high levels of co2, to keep them under water. I could list 1000 different plants tomorrow. This is what most companies do. However most people can't grow these plants. I only bring on species that most people can have success with. The aquasoil is working against you, it's lowering your pH, which is going to make it difficult to acclimate plants that are grown. All crypts are grown above water. A big portion will be landed in Florida and grown there at a neutral to high pH. Once you drop them into something below 7, they just shock out typically. Remember these plants want to be on the banks of a river, not submerged most of the time. any pH changes would be very gradual. This is another reason I don't sell aquasoil, I watch far too many people buy it, high end lights, co2, etc. And just fail. Their water is essentially acid from the soil, plus injecting co2, they don't use air stones etc. This is not how nature wants to be, but it is how nature is forced to be sometimes in the wild. Just because my lawn can turn brown during the summer and come back in the winter, doesn't mean it wants to be doing that. I realize this will just make sound like a hater. But the crypts we carry are very easy, root tabs, some light, and no fancy substrate. Every thing you add to that, just makes it more difficult. Once you have success, feel free to experiment as it won't cost you thousands in dead plants, and instead you can propagate and then see what they'll tolerate.

My best advice, get a chair. Make it so you can sit in there and at least browse your phone. Currently you can only be in there and work. Especially as it gets colder, sitting in the warm room is awesome and you'll notice the fish doing more odd things more often.

Normal gravel, mix in crushed coral. Feed tons of root tabs. Neutral pH is gonna lead to success. Crypts melt from water parameter shock typically.

I made them myself, they're just black pvc, and bulkhead parts. I used an elbow, a coupler, a bit of pvc pipe, and a strainer.