[Stuff you bought and recommend (not fish related)]

I find that on hobbyist forums, often interests are similar outside of the hobby. This thread is for items you've bought that exceed expectations or fully satisfy what you were looking for. This isn't just tech stuff, could be fast food, gardening equipment, anything really. 

 

My first would be the google mesh network pods. These were a game changer to me over 2 years ago when I installed them. Even just 1 pod outperformed the $700 router I was using in my studio. Now I have them in my studio, my house, the retail store and my warehouse and only have happy things to say about them. I ordered some of the new pods to test them out but so far only recommend the older generation. 

https://smile.amazon.com/Google-WiFi-system-3-Pack-replacement/dp/B01MAW2294/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=google+pod&qid=1599499889&sr=8-4

[The new fish room and studio build thread.]

Slow and steady wins the race. Unless that’s your internet connection lol. I spent all day last Friday with internet installers to get 4 connections out to the new fish room. The 4 combined total 100 download but only 10 upload. Should be just above the minimum to live stream to YouTube. The picture is of @Bob and I learning how to bond the connections together with a special router.

[Other Pets]

I miss people posting their other pets, so here is a shot of our dog Wincy from this last week. She was very happy to be sleeping with Dad.

[How to Use the Forum - Tutorials and Guides]

It looks like my software developers who are customizing this theme, broke the new posting somehow, so changing to ACO will fix it for now and I hope they fix it today or tomorrow. It's a holiday weekend so not sure how fast it'll get remedied yet. Thanks for figuring it out.

[Marina breeder box.. Shaddaaaaap]

Just like sponge filters, flow is key here, the slower the flow, meaning the bubbles won't crash into each other, the less gurgling/sound you'll have at the end. Very small amounts of water need to move through the container, most people have them roaring lol. 

Also being that the purpose is to change out the water, you could have the air pump set to a timer to turn on for say 1 hour a day to do 100% water change etc. 

[Clean up crew for larger cichlids]

I'd use an army of malaysian trumpet snails.

[The new fish room and studio build thread.]

Forgot my photo.

[The new fish room and studio build thread.]

Steenfott family took some shelving away. Slowly moving in the right direction. Had hvac guys out today as well.

[Are guppies rubbish after 5 months?]

You're missing the hours that were spent with him that weren't in that video, from eating lunch with the guy and visiting Jordan and such. It's no different than saying fish food is rubbish after 5 months. His goal is to get you fish at the absolute best value. A fish food that was produced yesterday and sold  to you today has a better value than one that is produced 5 months ago and you bought today. The shelf life of a guppies is 18 months to 2 years just like fish food. Getting them into the customers hands at 3 months is his gold standard where 5 months is rubbish and too many people have sat on it and aren't getting the best possible product out of his farm. It's no different than if I was selling fish food 1 month from being expired, the company who produced it would be irritated about it when they work so hard to provide freshness. 

 

The way he runs his farm he can grow a fish faster than most, and takes pride in that his fish are bigger and healthier and are customer ready at 3 months, 60 days from his farm, then transit to a wholesaler then a store makes it 90 days a customer is buying a great fish, 2 extra months is wasteful to him. 

[Aquarium salt -> cure all?]

I personally believe salt is one of the strongest weapons we have in the aquarium hobby. For me science proves it's the most broad spectrum treatment available to us. It won't do anything for internal parasites, but for external parasites, fungus and bacterial it will affect quite a few. In the absence of plants I find it to be a very valuable tool. We use it regularly in the store and in my own personal fish room. We start with 1 tablespoon per 3 gallons and go up to 1 tablespoon per gallon. I've done videos and articles about it, i'll leave our salt blog article here:  https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/aquarium-salt-for-sick-fish

[What is Mulm?]

I consider it the build up of debris in the aquarium. A compost pile is probably on par. But depending on the type of tank some might have lots of leaf debris, while an Oscar tank might have a lair of broken down waste.

[What did you get done today?]

Wow, bed above the fish tanks is taking it to another level.

[Breeding rice fish- starting numbers?]

I’d definitely take the fry. They’ll adapt to your water better.

[Linear Ait Piston Pump]

I do t think there is much savings with only 6 tanks honestly. Over a very long time, you’d save buying replacement air pumps. However the smallest would still run like 20 tanks and the power consumption would be higher

[Golden Longfin White Cloud]

Nice work. I’ve played with gold London white clouds before. The strain I had never made any babies. Had several groups of white clouds breeding both normal and longfin but gold kingdoms never produced fry. I’ve suspected that they become a lethal gene when bred together. Any experience like that yet? 
 

I had assumed something like this was the case cause you almost never see gold longfins for sale.

 

this gives me hope to try again. Been like 10 years since I tried gold longfin breeding last. 

[Cinderblock stands and earthquakes?]

Clearly you haven't watched my cinder block stand video with an earthquake rant. 

 

[The new fish room and studio build thread.]

Some of you may heard in the live stream we bought a new house so that we could get away from our current neighbors who made it impossible to film outside pond content. We also need more space to store aquarium coop products for the warehouse. 
 

We had been “looking” for like 8 months for the perfect space but our requirements were odd, needed a building for a studio, fish room and storage and away from neighbors while still being close enough to town for good internet.

Here are some pics snapped quickly with my cell phone of the starting space. And 1 picture of the view from today that my wife took.

 

None of the stuff in these pictures is ours, they were from a day when we had an inspection done.

 

now the task of getting this space ready, then moving the fish room and selling our old house is ahead of us. 

[REPASHY * COATED * ALGAE WAFERS ​🥣​ ​🐸​]

Does the wafer hold up inside? or is it soggy? Or too soon and haven't fed yet? 😛

[Purplish cyanobacteria?]

I've definitely seen it that color before. Personally I'd treat it with maracyn. 

[Evacuating for Hurricane Laura, Need help]

I would leave them as is, put a bit of fertilizer in there. The reality is those plants should survive for a couple of weeks without light. The val may melt back a bit, but the others can get by with VERY low light. I would say of the things you have to worry about, these plants should be real low on the list and I believe they'll do well for you. Good luck and keep us posted.

[Ask and you shall receive (Extreme Aquatic Foods)]

There it is, out in the wild. Thanks.

[G'day from Melbourne, Aus]

Welcome. I hope to visit at some point. 

[150g outdoor halfbeaks outdoor pond]

Oooh, I'm interested. I love half beaks. I'd be interested in what app is monitoring the temp for sure. 

[What kind of snail is this?]

Commonly referred to as a pond or pest snail. My favorite aquarium cleaner.

[Baking Soda - An Easy (Kh) booster ​📈​]

I recommend people do a lot of testing with this, baking soda is very potent and is easy to move the ph much farther than expected with small amounts.

 

Used correctly it can work quite well.