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Looks awesome. I think Bowls are underrepresented. A bowl done well always looks awesome.
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I'd probably go with 100 watt heater myself. I like having smaller heaters as if they fail I have more time to catch it. I also think 100 watts with a glass top will probably do the job for ya. I wouldn't put anything under the tank, usually that hurts hardwood floors by trapping water, where wood to wood dries out better in my experience.
As for the aquaclear, I'd say with the smaller HoB, as you're going with a sponge filter as well. I think you won't get much improvement out of the larger HoB unless you decide to go with fish that love very fast moving currents down the road.
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I'm going to make this simple. There are multiple people in this thread that are fighting with each other. I can solve this by banning people if I need to.
A correct response would be: I'd try maybe some Malaysian trumpet snails, or corydoras, maybe some loaches. You could try a red lizard catfish, and others will chime in with more suggestions. Just a btw I found it easier to keep my tiger barbs in a larger tank long term. (speak from your experience, not from what they should do.)
Easy as that. They can come back with more questions or ask for more help. I know I can keep 11 tiger barbs in a 10 gallon tank with tankmates for probably their entire life, with auto water change, live foods. Heck I believe I could spawn them as well. We don't know if this is a 1 day setup,a 10 year setup, if they have 100 years of experience or they are just a troll. But it is our jobs to treat each as someone genuinely looking for help with their question asked. I don't see anywhere it was asked if 10 gallons was enough for 11 tiger barbs.
I've locked this thread and will be on the lookout for anymore behavior like this.
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The bulbs are nutrients storage, they get consumed while establishing roots, if not enough nutrients or buried too deep they rot. I think this is a case of planting them and letting the roots establish. Do you have tweezers? These should be easy to plant with a set of tweezers.
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I'd bring the bulb up so it's 50% in the substrate and 50% below. A tank shot might provide a better overall look. Perhaps the plant is being shaded from the light a bit. Are you supplementing the plant with good tabs as it's a heavy root feeder to replenish the nutrients in the bulb.
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On 3/5/2023 at 10:15 AM, Squirrely Dan said:
I recently got a co op CO2 regulator and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I have the regulator hooked up to a freshly filled 5lb CO2 cylinder.
I get everything set perfect so it's running at about 2 bubbles per second, and a few hours later, I check it and the CO2 quits flowing all together.
The right gauge still reads about 750psi, and the left gauge slowly goes from 35psi to zero after a few hours. Then no more CO2 will flow, no matter how far I turn the regulator knob in.
Double checking that you have the solenoid still plugged in. I assume you do, but incase you don't, co2 only flows when the solenoid has power. Shoot us an email shipping@aquariumcoop.com and we can trouble shoot a bit more and send out another if we don't identify what the problem is.
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On 3/3/2023 at 4:11 PM, Jackonaut said:
I want to treat my tank with a combo of the 3 treatments recommended on this site (Maracyn, Ich-X and ParaCleanse. The page on this site specifies the dosing to use when treating with all 3 at once, but it doesn’t say how many days to repeat the treatment. Is it just once or do you do it everyday for a specific number of days? Thanks for your help!
Mardel Maracyn, Aquarium Solutions Ich-X, and Fritz ParaCleanse.
Why do you want to use the trio? Are the fish brand new to you? are they in mass quantity? do you not have a quarantine tank etc? Many people do it cause they hadn't before, that's not a great reason to do it. In a scenario where you want to "clean up your fish" you'd want to do 1 med at a time, and probably only paracleanse , then repeat it 2 weeks later.
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On 3/3/2023 at 3:57 PM, Pepere said:
I just looked at various Finnex Planted Plus 24/7 lights.
they seem to be cheaper than the co op planted light.
just curious why you might be interested in the co op light instead of the planted plus?
Have you experienced short lifespan with the finnex planted plus? The water integrity of the co op light would interest me, but the lack of the sunrise sunset and ability to alter color rendering is too much of a loss for me to consider it myself…
24/7 finnex lights are much less light output than our lights. Also less efficient energy wise. That would be 2 reasons, there are more as well, but it won't do sunrise/sunset as that is not a feature we wanted to include.
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ph looks a bit low, might want to buffer it up a bit with some crushed coral.
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You need balance. The question becomes, what fertilizer are you using? Is it only root tabs for that val? Is there some liquid for the anachris? Can you solve this issue easily with 1 bristlenose pleco?
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The majority of the "algae" on the bottom is blue green algae, aka cyanobacteria. Some maracyn or slime out will take care of that, I recommend manual removal first. After beating the cyano bacteria. I'd recommend a florida flag fish or two to get the hair algae under control. I'd also up the easy green dosage a bit to keep 20ppm of nitrates in there at least, and relax the water changes to maybe once a month.
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I recommend just buying more of the matching gravel.
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For a clouded eye, I'd only be doing maracyn. The tendency to over engage with our fish tank is high. Like vitachem, if you have a broken arm, trying to make up for a poor diet the past 6 months won't do much. You've identified a cloudy eye, most often an antibiotic will cure that. Possibly the ich x would help also, the paracleanse was uneeded for this. This is assuming it's been diagnosed correctly which is usually true as a cloudy eye is relatively easy to identify. If I owned this fish and had the med trio in there, I'd probalby just do nothing except feed the tank like normal all week and look for signs of it getting better or worse. You could dose and water change every day the maracyn, in my experience I get the same result either way with fish in my care.
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The most common cause would be an allergic reaction to the food going in. Blood worms are common, so are brine shrimp. If you're feeding those, you could try without for a few months, and many water changes and see if you get the same reaction. Then it'd just be narrowing down which of those two.
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On 2/18/2023 at 10:39 PM, TheSwissAquarist said:
Do you code the website yourself?
Not anymore, we're beyond my abilities. I do a bunch with the website, but I don't know how to work with API with youtube and such.
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On 1/30/2023 at 7:15 AM, Guppy Guy said:
This isn’t really a meme, but I thought it was kind of funny to see how much the aquarium co-op website has progressed over the years.
Going clockwise from top to bottom, the dates are November 14, 2012; May 15, 2013; September 28, 2014; And today.
There are tons more, these are just the most significant differences I found. If you want to see all the snapshots, all they are on archive.org.
My favorite is still the one with all the brown. But it was limited in tech and a bit clunky. I LOVE left hand navigation on websites though.
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On 2/18/2023 at 5:28 PM, Theplatymaster said:
is this how they propagate?
That I'm not sure about as I haven't done it. Other plants like aponogetons also flower above the water and I have propagated those that way.
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They flower above the water.
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10lb which isn't much more than a 5lb. On 1 tank I find it lasts easily like 14+ months between refills. Depends on how much you're injecting. In general outside of my retail store and warehouse, co2 lasts forever it seems. Warehouse it's like 6x 20lb tanks swapped out like every 10 days.
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We don't have any ammonia in our fertilizers. It's cheaper, but not better in my opinion. Ammonium is only that below 6.8ph. Above that it's ammonia. I don't believe this is worth the risk for the public, overdosing ammonia can lead to bad results. Can you get dennerle v20? I'd use that if I couldn't get Easy green.
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I find that the crinum and tiger lotus want to feed from the substrate, so I use root tabs there. Water sprite wants to eat from the water column. The fertilizer listed doesn't have nitrogen so you'll need lots of nitrogen going in from fish food to keep the water sprite happy.
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On 2/16/2023 at 7:01 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:
Best to delete them. I never worked them out! 😂
I have found this in the settings and have disabled it 😉 the users can now ask questions without future harassment via email.
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@Bailey_C here is how I grow brine shrimp to adults.
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looks like a good find. Now to see how much they bow filled with water
Fritz Zyme 7 and Fritz Complete Safe to use together?
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Should be a-ok to use em together.