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I haven't done a salad spinner, however I have seen a washing machine dedicated to sponge filters. No soap, just warm water and spinning them dry.

In my experience it spreads itself. A video will come out in the next month showing that. You can trim and plant stems as well, but I find it to be frustrating as it doesn't root very easy with this method. From the picture, I think it might be struggling to get enough light. You may want to trim the plant, each time you trim, you're training it to stay low and it spreads faster from what I've seen.

Thanks for mentioning it, I have our developers looking into it.

Ours are another source, and ours are actually a higher hate rated guaranteed to us, but we put lower on the can because we want to under promise and over deliver. I doubt most places are doing their cold storage correctly because its quite costly and in general, the cost of eggs has gone up a decent amount over the last few years. We pay to get the highest hatch rates possible. People like Dean rely on these eggs every day and so do his fry. We extensively tested vs every other major egg we could find. Dean has been hatching brine shrimp daily for 40 years. We simply used him to make sure we had the best thing on the market. We focus on best, not on cheapest. In a day in age where we have less time than ever, a batch of brine shrimp needs to work. A failed hatch is sometimes the difference between life and death of a spawn of fish. Something we don't take likely. It's unfortunately you're not having luck with the other company, I never want another hobbyist to have wasted money. I do hope you find a good outlet for them. I wish we could bring the price of our eggs down, but really we are fighting the price going up. If we can find a way to scale it down, we will pass it along to customers.

Chances are, almost any light would grow the plants you currently have. That being said, the color of light makes a big difference in how fish look. The amount of light becomes more important with higher light plants

The simple answer is, the online store and retail store are one system, they share inventory etc.

I'd test the water, as long as there isn't ammonia or nitrite you're fine. Some tanks react differently, but usually I find once your bacteria has been through the med trio once it's more "stable" if you need to do it in the future. I actually think it just comes down to how established the tank is overall the conditions before treatment. A neglected tank could have a different reaction than one that is serviced regularly etc. For your tanks, I'd say it's just a bit of bacteria die off, and the white is the bloom of the new bacteria.

I like the addition of the strainer holder part. nice touch.

I always love tv tanks. Excited to see how this one turns out.

I'm not sure, you'd need to contact them for dimensions, but from using acrylic tanks for many years, most tanks fit common hang on backs.

Friday's quote from leadership chat Randy says: "I bought them big ol pizzas, wings, and a salad spread. They are in a food coma now no doubt" @Bev C Yep, it will extend further than 24 inches even.

That tank should work. I don’t know the original source. Dean got them at the Gsas auction. I do have trout goodeids from Greg sage, still breeding up numbers for prolly 6 months though.

My personal opinion is they are still too expensive in the USA. The education for them is missing. I find they are much more popular in Europe, because they are cheap. I get approached by labs that make tissue culture plants, and it sounds great until the logistics of getting them into America. Most tissue cultures I see in America are past their sell by date really. Because they are brought over in large numbers to try and keep the price reasonable. They sit in a fridge trying to keep them from growing at a wholesaler. By the time they get to a store, and the store actually sells them, it's been months since they were cultured and are struggling on nutrients and space etc. Not all are like this, but I think to "launch" them in USA, we need more people having more success with fresher cups.

Shouldn't make any different what time you dose. I'm actually not sure what nutrients are absorbed at night. I know they consume oxygen. Growing happens during the light, but I"m not sure if they can take in some other nutrients during the down time.

I bought myself 20 more books. Now I just need to setup time and a good spot to read. It's on my 2023 to do list to read more. I'd like to put a strategy in to reread books that I find particularly helpful. I know I read books 10 years ago that were amazing and am lucky if I put 5% of it into practice. Still lots of good information to be mined from them.

Very cool

Most non chain stores will taken donations, some will give you credit or cash. Growing them to a 2 inch size or so increases that chance. As for transport, a bucket like 1/3 of water and a battery powered air pump and air stone is the best that I've found.

Glass is cheap, and it bonds well with silicone. If you change the bottom, you now need a new fish safe bonding material essentially.

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If I didn't already own the air pumps... I'd probably make the switch when the money made sense. Which is probably around 10x air pumps or a linear air piston pump.

nice work! congrats. It's fun to collect those in the fish room.

It also appears your water has ammonia or a med in it as the bubbles are an odd size and building up at the top of the water.

I don't really have a safe recommendation when it comes to osmocote root tabs, too many cause kill your fish. Our root tabs you can't really do too many because we don't use ammonia. In general, adding then whenever you see a nitrogen deficiency is a good idea, if you see a trend of that happening every 3 weeks, maybe you add more every 2 weeks to bat the deficiency happening.

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It can be done when the tanks are shallow or the lines are too restricted. So long runs of airline tubing, multiple check valves will cause problems. The less restriction, the more likely it'll work. SO hanging the air pump with no check valve, a splitter, you might be able to do 4 5 gallon tanks with a sponge filter with no air stone. use a check valve, a fine air stone and you might struggle to do 1 line into a 55 gallon.