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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.

No live stream. Should resume next Sunday.

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.

Maybe take a video, upload to YouTube and post it here? Very loud is not how I’d describe our power head. Thinking either something is setup wrong or you happened to fry a defective one, which would be rare.

Having the light raised up above the tank, is costing you probably near half your overall light output. A light the length of your tank, resting on the rim, and that is powerful enough will solve a lot of the hassle you've got currently.

With an active infection, use the directions on the box.

An extra seal isn't needed with the way our regulators are. It sounds like something is wrong with the regulator you received unfortunately. Customer service will likely get you one sent out after a bit of trouble shooting. Sorry you've been experiencing a problem, this is definitely not the norm, and we'll make it right for you.

@DShelton Just measured one I had. 48 inches from heater to the remote.

@DShelton I've got someone in my company hopefully updating our description and making a graphic. If I remember I'll try and measure it sometime this week for ya. If we don't get it done sooner.

Basically dechlorinator is a commodity item. This is why there are a few chemical companies that will make you a dechlorinator. I went down this road, but I couldn't answer my question. "How is aquarium co-op's dechlorinator better?" We could make it more gallons treated per dollar, but at the end of the day, grab nearly any dechlor off the shelf and it's getting the job done. I feel like this is probably one of those things like proving which paper towel is the best, when reality is, any paper towel basically gets the job done. Sure one might be better suited for a particular job like public bathroom vs kitchen. But if there is a spill on my floor, any are going to work. In general if any employee is trashing a product, esp something like prime. I question it. I don't like seachem as a company, but at the end of the day prime is pretty good cause the bar is so low, any dechlor is "pretty good"