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[Hi from Manchester UK]

Welcome Phil, hope to see ya jump in on some other topics 🙂

[Fungus?]

It does look like fungus to me. That salt will be hard on your plants, might not kill them. Increasing it further probably would. Salt is a slow method to fix things, but generally works well. 

[When will I need to introduce new genetics into my colony]

When you see a decent portion have defects from what you want. For me that might be generation 10+? Depends on the species of fish. 

[Hello from Melbourne Australia!]

Welcome aboard. 

[Shark ADV Internal Filter]

When Aquarium Co-Op first opened we sold Sicce products. As Dean said, I don't have anything good to say about them, so I'll just leave it with we haven't sold them in 5+ years...

[Unanswered Topic Help]

Hopefully so, it's a real bummer when a new member has a question go unanswered. 

[Unanswered Topic Help]

You can now click on Unanswered Topics as shown in the picture to see people who haven't gotten a reply if you want to be helpful. 

[the female convict at our store]

In my experience all Convicts get nice trailer fins. However they scrap when breeding so often that they don't grow out without a ton of space. When you see a "specimen" that has been kept alone, I'm always shocked at how good a full grown convict looks. 

[Cryptocoryne Tropica?]

Tropica is a cultivar of wendtii, Florida sunset, pink flamingo etc are all cultivars of wendtii as well. Depending on light and nutrients is what you’ll get out of each plant. The cultivars will sway you in one direction. For instance, wendtii green give high light and lots of iron goes a bit brown. When selectively bred for red or pink you’ll have a higher chance of it having those colors with less effort. 
 

basically most crypts have a huge variation of color depending com conditions. 

 

 

[Aquarium Co-Op Warehouse Photos]

Dang, I don’t even have them yet!

[Feeding Goldfish - Running out foods.]

I'd say give repashy soilent green a shot, goldfish love it. 

[Water Wisteria - help/suggestions?? Very puzzled right now!]

How much easy green are you dosing? Is it possible the nitrates are coming from food and not from the easy green meaning you could be deficient in other compounds in which you aren't testing for? 

[Stem Plant Help]

What light are you using on what size of tank? Sometimes this happens when plants grow taller they shade the bottom and the stems rot from not getting enough light down there. 

[Water Parameters Question]

Do you know if your water softener affects your outdoor hose? I know a lot of houses it doesn't and the first thing we recommend is aging hose water to come up to temp for people with this problem. 

[Shrimp pond yields]

I've only ever done the reds outside. Every year I mean to do more outside, and then get too busy 😞

[How do you know if you win the give away?]

If you're asking about our sunday video giveaway, you'll be notified on the comment you left on the video. If you win something here on the forum, you'd be notified via the forum post. 

[Swordtail Oddness]

Well swordtails are a hard water fish, so you'll want to keep the hardness. pH being "about" 7.0 could be a bit low, Ideally it'd be 7.5 or higher for swordtails, but 7.0 is considered the bottom of what they can thrive in my personal experience. 

[Struggling to Keep Nitrates Up]

 You  may need to put more root tabs under the amazon swords. I've had them eat 10+ root tabs for 1 large plant every month. As far as keeping nitrogen up, it looks that by testing your plants are consuming it. One thing I'd mention is that you're dosing kno3, however without the other building blocks you won't get optimal growth if you are lacking other nutrients. This is why fertilizers are typically more than just KNo3, as plants need a range of nutrients to grow. 

[Shrimp pond yields]

Nice work, the sunlight really helps color up cherry shrimp I've found in previous years when I've done it. I also found out that here in washington I can overwinter cherry shrimp with about 2 inches of ice on top of the pond. Not sure if they can withstand anything more harsh. 

[Cloudy Water]

Have you checked out our article on cloudy water yet? This covers a lot of first steps to figuring out what might be causing it. 

https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/cloudy-fish-tank

[Will gold fish eat guppy grass?]

I suspect large goldfish would. I'm growing out the fry from my 800g spawn they had, and they are about 3 inches right and don't seem to be touching any of the guppy grass yet. 

[Staghorn/BBA algae and carbon additives to treat]

Easy carbon will work the same as flourish excel. It's a long road to retarding the algae that way. Usually dosing some of that combined efforts with manual removal and some fish or inverts to help get it under control is the best method I've found for dealing with it long term. 

[Stem Plant Help]

Are you dosing fertilizers into the water column? Stem plants are primarily water column feeders. 

[Help with a nile puffer set up spooks]

I'd look into any shadows being created in the tank. Plants on the ends could help if the motion is coming from there. But usually it's a motion outside of the tank thing, whether it's shadows or not. Having it brighter in the tank than outside in the room can help cut down on that. Puffers have good vision and can see up to 30 feet outside of an aquarium. Something as simple as a TV with flashing colors can do it from previous experience.