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  1. Cory
    Dump trucks bringing in all the earth and gravel for cargo containers that we are gonna store goods in.
  2. Cory
    This isn’t something we will doing. Sharing shipping addresses, sellling will happen. People will get angry over duckweed, snails, disease sickness etc. This forum is a place to discuss the hobby. Not a place to sell or give away. You can do that on other platforms. The liability is not something Aquarium coop will be taking on.
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    Typically one spot isn’t ich, could be the start of it, or a fungus or a cyst. when you get the trio I’d start with ich x/maracyn. 1 dose of each and let it sit for like a week. After that, let the fish rest for a week. Then on the 3rd week use paracleanse to deworm the fish. this is a slower treatment that is less stress on the fish. Plus we suspect an active infection starting and may have to switch gears if it continues to develop and we can diagnose it.
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    My two main tips. Isolate the aquarium, all other aquarium lights/room lights are off. Second, it's all in the camera. With 20k of equipment in the room. I can get amazing shots with a $800 camera. The Sony Zv1 or any of the rx100. It'll take me 5 minutes, and a good shot. Now take Jimmy, give him 2 hours, 6k in equipment and he'll get a mind blowing shot. The biggest difference is time. When we are on location we might have 1 hour to film, and 30 minutes for photos/b roll. So we need really good shots quick, but not the best shots ever. I find that a camera that can shoot 10-20 shots a second does well, as 50% of the fish photo game is getting the fish in the right spot in the tank under the light, without another fish in front of it, facing the right direction. Then getting your camera to focus fast enough on it's eye. After that adjusting your bokeh and such to see more or less depending on taste. I like to see all the fish and tank in focus. Jimmy likes to see just the 1 fish with the background blown out. So he uses lower aperture and I like higher aperture. @JimmyGimbal can give some tips. I'll leave this video Jimmy did on fish photography.
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    I find salt does wonders for this, if you have a QT tank or no plants in his tank, salt over the course of like a month will really help we find.
  6. Cory
    I always thought about trying the stuff that looks like construction paper but is foam used in craft projects. It feel so similar to rimless tank mats.
  7. Cory
    Just wanted to chime in here. Blue light doesn't grow algae any quicker than other light. Plants see Green the least, but our human eyes see green light the best. I'm not not sure what spectrums fish see the best/worst. Blue night lights "grow algae" because the light is on 24/7, the color it is doesn't really contribute to the algae grow, just the fact that algae is able to photosynthesize for 24 hours instead of a typical 8-12 hour period. Plants also can't really go past 14 hours, they have to rest where algae doesn't.
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    When it's in stock..... They do sell a 3.75lb container of the bug bites. That being said Fluval has been having issues keeping anything in stock. A lot of shops like mine won't sell it because it's so expensive and so few will sell. I'm seeing prices of like $50-$50 for that container of food. You can google to find someone selling if you're looking for that big of a container.
  9. Cory
    Yep, we are matching, if you look at the first photo of the latest updated, near the left wall all the cedar shingles are piled up. Trying to get all construction done early so there are no disruptions in youtube content down the road 😉
  10. Cory
    Well without knowing your eggs. Likely it's something like this. lets say your current eggs hatch out at 75%. Our eggs hatch out at 90-95%. For the average home hobbyist the extra 20% probably isn't worth paying more for when you have eggs in hand already. As a fish breeder, that may cut down on time to feed etc, it might make sense. However I personally always try and use up what I have before buying new. Going forward I would recommend ours. However until then, likely your eggs are just fine for your needs. If you're getting like 50% or lower hatch rates, your time is probably worth enough to try ours then but those would be some really bad or old eggs if the hatch was that low.
  11. Cory
    Just to confirm, parameters are still looking good? I know often people fishless cycle the tank, it looks ready on paper. Add fish and feed, and then fish die. Then they notice they now have ammonia that could have caused it. In general new tanks are unstable and stressful compared to a well seasoned tank. Also remember that sometimes things just go wrong and we can't figure out why, I start with, lets check common places, at some point if nothing turns up, I chalk it up to bad luck/ I don't have the skill set to figure out what went wrong and I try again.
  12. Cory
    I thought I would start a thread for the local club meetings. With covid they have been online, I know @Dean’s Fishroom attends them, I seem to make about half of them. They are held on youtube. The next one is on the 13th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usOMvrMlybs
  13. Cory
    The hatch rate is really good. However I would use up what you have since they are free.
  14. Cory
    The same way I have articles about fish with none to buy on the website.
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    I got hooked on rice fish when I went to Japan the first time. Then bought all I could here and bred them and in my opinion helped popularize them a bit. Now when I go back, I can spot varieties we don't have. In Japan there were specific rice fish foods, just like guppy foods, different rice fish breeding setups, rice fish only magazines etc. Was quite the craze. This would have been like 4-5 years ago. You can see the rice fish in my videos where I went to Japanese fish stores.
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    Goldfish with ich?

    Cory replied to Jake's topic in Diseases

    Look like cysts as opposed to ich. Salt may help, reducing stress usually helps as well.
  17. Cory
    Wondershells will raise your GH, but shouldn't raise your KH.
  18. Cory
    Wonder shells don't raise your buffer, only your hardness. Depending on how hard your water is, and the pH of your water is how fast it'll dissolve and raise dGH.
  19. Cory
    I use this laptop armchair desk every day for like the last 2 years. Has a built in mouse pad, venting for the laptop and places to hold your phone and the left hand side holds a plate of tacos. Picked it up on amazon for like $40
  20. Cory
    Another 2 walls up today and equipment to move the fill that lands tomorrow to put cargo containers on.
  21. Cory
    Officially Co-Op. But I usually say coop cause it's funny and we run around like chickens to get things done.
  22. Cory
    Gianne of Inglorious Bettas. Super fun nerd who is also a betta judge.
  23. Cory
    This could be a case where there is a fatty tumor behind the eye. In which meds won't do anything and it wouldn't be fatal or anything. It's hard to know with fish unfortunately. If activity level is good and water parameters are good. As long as it's not progressing just give it time and see what happens.
  24. Cory
    I had no problem with ones that had food grade stuff in it before I started using them. A pump on a wifi switch is what I used to move water around for filling tanks and such.
  25. Cory
    Lol, we've already been working on it/trying. I think me visiting Japan again, and going to singapore as well with @Ryo Watanabe to show us around and bringing back eggs is the plan.... THen this darn virus happened and put everything on hold I had planned for this year.
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