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In my testing the ones from pond guru didn’t work and after 2 years hadn’t dissolved at all. This was in Murphy a tank in a canister filter.

Thanks for noticing. I get to fly back home today and work on stuff more 🙂 10 videos filmed while in Germany. I’m hoping to get back to live streams, working on the store expansion and more international shipping. Tests are going on for Australia and New Zealand currently. Sales are down due to recession talk and it being summer, so I’ll need to be extra keyed into the business over the new few months as it’s always stressful during summer. The hope is that working with more stores and international will offset the slow down and keep our employees busy 🙂

Yep, looks like that one just got missed, should be available for purchase now. We are still doing background work on other products. Looking up import codes and such.

@Jacob Hillunlikely for the fry food. Requires our facility to be inspected and lots of paperwork to get it cleared to import animal products into another country.

Also the collections that show nothing, is because there are no products from that collection that we can ship currently. Like fish foods shown above, we have to get things setup to be able to do that.

Yeah I. Relieve I have fixed those issues are you still having problems @Jacob Hill

Yes, we haven't done any official announcements yet cause we are still working out any bugs and handling each order carefully to watch it through each step of the process before we start getting many orders per day from Canada, right now is 1-3 per day and lets us learn about what might be able to go wrong etc. One thing to note is shipping to Canada is based on weight, so lighter products ship cheaper. So things like pre filter sponges virtually add no shipping cost. Where sponge filters and food and such will add weight.

@Jacob Hillyes we are starting. Could you explain the “bugging out” you are seeing?

Don't buy into the hype of the all male show tank. Also I recommend fewer species of 6-10 individuals instead of 1-2 of everything.

I personally have had success with expired meds on fish. However this isn't an official statement and more of an observation on my part.

Thanks, we are taking it easy, mostly just runny noses now. Still have more quarantine, but I'm trying to push forward on some projects while I'm stuck with my laptop 🙂

Prazi and paracleanse are not the same. Paracleanse also has metronidazole.

There can be several causes. If it has been a while since a gravel vac, it can actually disturb the bacteria to gravel vac. If it took you a while to refill the aquarium and the glass dried, all the bacteria on the walls died. Meds in general can be harder on bacteria. Changing water when it contains chloramine, when using a dechlorinator breaks down into ammonia. Some test kits provide false positives of ammonia with some dechlorinators like Prime. We personally don't feed fish during meds usually for these reasons and the fish are usually stressed and eat less anyway causing uneaten food to be worse sometimes. Where I would start, fill a bucket of water, use dechlorinator, stir it and test it like 15-30 minutes later, any ammonia? If so I'd also test the tap water to see if there is ammonia. After that If the tapwater does not produce any ammonia after dechlorinating. I'd change water until its 0.5ppm ammonia and then stop feeding until the aquarium processes it to zero.

I would recommend slowing down and not chasing "perfect" 7.0 is not perfect for any species. Stable water parameters are much more desired. The biggest thing that moves the needle here is probably the food going into the tank. 8 mollies could be a lot. If they are adults and you feed them till full, that may overwhelm the tank. A heavy bioload mixed with low ph tapwater is always going to be a struggle. It's essentially like spending more than you make, you'll always be in debt. Crushed coral is like a savings account. It'll add buffer that will grow over time but it's slow. If you spend more than you make, you'll run out of savings and go into debt. That is where you are now. The trick is going to be managing the load. You could have a container of water with crushed coral ready for water changes to bring ph 7+ water in instead of low ph Water. That would help. You could reduce the amount of food you feed, perhaps feeding a higher quality. Lastly you could reduce the amount of animals in the 10 gallon or expand to a larger tank size. Finally be aware that as the mollies get larger, in a 10 gallon with shrimp, It's likely their appetite will make them prey on the shrimps. They may not directly eat them but they may cause quite a bit of stress. Just talk calm steps and realize that all water parameters are essentially a math problem and working through the problem slowly to understand the parts, will give you the best chance at the desired result you're looking for.

I'm only in Europe for a couple more days. But we are most likely doing Vivarium and a show in Germany the day after Vivarium coming up in Early october.

Here is the first store I visited in Germany. Definitely not a mom and pop. I shot a video here so you’ll have to wait to see how cool it is. But this is in their Home Depot. Better than chains in the USA by miles.

@Bev Cglad to hear it. I always want to diagnose why one of our products isn’t working cause it helps us get better at providing customer service 🙂

I don't think a gradual increase is your problem. I think it's going down further that would be your problem. Gotta keep an eye on it so it doesn't crash the pH.

0.5ppm ammonia shouldn't be much of a hassle unless you're doing like 75% water changes. Your live plants would just consume it, or bacteria. I think the larger thing to consider is, do you want to battle the lower pH because of the fluval stratum? Over time it'll hopefully leech less, but in the short term is drops pH as you're seeing.

The purpose is to build up co2. Co2 is in your aquarium whether you inject it or not. The idea is that plants consume all the co2 and then grow less efficiently. By letting the co2 build up again for say 4 hours. You get a bit more out of it. On some borderline cases, it can be an improvement. Most of the time though, people are "optimizing" for the sake of optimizing.

I'd say the answer is, no you shouldn't be concerned.

The sticker is double sided. You just need to get the white part off, it's clear when removed.

I've only done it with organic miracle grow. It did work. a little dab will do ya, I find dirt to be way more potent than people expect.

I believe that to be correct. Assuming ph, hardness and buffer tested out fine.

This is essentially my job. An algebraic equation is too advanced for the public. Also people would do the math once and up not updating the equation. The first hurdle is to convince people that a water change every week isn't magical. Even though "it's always worked for me, it's just what I do". Then the next hurdle is to get people to test water. "I never test and my do great". Over the years working in a store, writing for blogs, doing youtube. I found that those who want to learn will, and the easier you can make it, the more will be successful in learning. My last attempt was this infographic on water changes. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/pages/water-changes