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    numbers on the aquarium co op plant tags

    in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers

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    @David D yup, what @Robert said.  One of the many things we have in place to internally track plant quality and ensure that we are ordering from the best farm for a given species.  In addition, we are trying to encourage/educate those who order plants from us but have never ordered Easy Green or East Root Tabs to give them a try.  Sure we love to sell those items, but we all know how important nutrients are for success growing plants.  We want to make sure that each plant buyer is successful to avoid them 1) being discouraged and giving up on live plants and 2) minimize on reships of plants due to insufficient growing conditions.

    To be honest, I am surprised this small detail was noticed.  Sharp eye, @David D 😃

    Aquarium Co-op plants pre shipping

    in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers

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    On 8/26/2021 at 3:55 PM, Cory said:

    This would depend on plant type. Off the top of my head, I'd say plants stay in our system for about 7 days on average. Some plants need longer, some need less. Things like Anubias, Java Fern, Vallisneria and a few others, are ready to go day one under water. Things like Scarlet Temple, Pogo, and ammania need a few days to get some submerged growth on them.

    Depending on sales, is how long the plant will stay with us. We try to have nothing stay longer than 2 weeks or it grows too large to ship efficiently with each week that goes by.

    Tricky things like Crypts. These are grown emersed. After a week or so, they'll have some submerged leaves, and some emersed and in general look good to the average buyer. At 2-3 weeks, it will be almost all submerged grown leaves and look small, but in great shape for a new plant owner. However they get complaints for being "too small" then at weeks 4-5. They'll look great and be fully submerged but still not as "big" as a emersed grown plant.

    Basically as plants differ from our online pictures, we move them to our retail store. So if crypts are moving slower and converting more, they get sold at the store as someone can see it before purchase. Or if that stem plant is longer than a shipping box, it can go to the store where it won't need to fit in a box.

    There are times when plants can be sold out, and then start shipping the next day. We experimented with trying to delay them to grow them a bit before shipping the first ones, but this caused problems in our forecasting software, and daily stock takes of plants. This also lead to over ordering, and looking like we were out of stock to pull plants for retail.

    It is now our goal to just not sell out of plants as best we can each week and optimize. This is a constant moving target as each season brings new challenges, and supply and demand levels. Over time our algorithms get more accurate at guessing. However We could release a blog article or video and no algorithm can predict the impact of that.

    Ditto 😂 

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    Linear piston air pump

    in General Discussion

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    Not sure to what extent but the air pump inherently gives off heat.  Curious to know how much, if at all, it will increase the incoming air from the garage to the fish room to the tanks.  That being said, if you run a circular pvc loop in the fish room the pvc will also be at the same temp as the insulated fish room.

    all this to say I think you should run some experiments and share your results 😆 👍⚗️🔬🧪🌡

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    Aquarist Podcast

    in General Discussion

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    I am glad people are discovering the podcast!

    @mommygouramiregarding how I learned to interview?  I don’t know.  I did have a sales job for ~7 years.  That did require me to listen to my customers to understand their needs.  So maybe that? 😆 

    Also, here is a bonus “live” photo with the Corndog and I on our way back home from Peru.

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    CARE Forum Anniversary 2021 - Member Thank You Videos

    in Photos, Videos & Journals

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    On 7/18/2021 at 8:22 PM, Fish Folk said:

    Thank you @Cory for innovating in a way that brings people together. You are really why we're all here. Thank you @JimmyGimbal for being an excellent artist and collaborator. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and a film is a hundred-thousand pictures, given how many you've made . . . you're communicating well! Thank you @Dean’s Fishroom for spilling the beans and telling the whole world so many secrets of breeding fish. Thank you @Randy for your work on The Aquarist Podcast. I learn so much from your interviews! Thank you @Irene for, in a way, doing all of the above in your own elegant, inimitable style.

     

     

    @Fish Folkwow!  That was amazing!  I am thrilled that you enjoy the podcast, this forum, and all things Co-Op!  I hate to think of how many times you have heard me say "good times" 🤣

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    Rainbow fry questions

    in Fish Breeding

    Posted · Edited by Randy
    congrats!!

    @Ben P. I have used both Sera Micron and Golden Pearls as the first food for several types of rainbow fry.  For Golden Pearls I follow Gary Lange's recommendation of 5-50 micron size.  More recently, all my rainbows have been started on Sera Micron.  After about ~2 weeks I find they are large enough to start feeding baby brine shrimp.

    Edit: I forgot to say congrats on the first hatch!

    Randy's Fish Room

    in Photos, Videos & Journals

    Posted · Edited by Randy

    Proud first-time papa of some Neolamprologus multifasciatus!🥳. These were the ones that Ryan from Wild Fish Tanks had sent me a few months back.

    I decided to peek my head in on them as this tank is on the top rack with the substrate/bottom impossible to see unless on my tip-toes or ladder.

    I added more PVC "snail shells" at @Zenzo's advice.  I was a little worried that I still didn't have enough.  I will probably still add a bunch more to see if that sets the breeding off even more.  You can see from the photos that they get fed BBS very heavily!  (Note: Aquarium Co-Op Brine Shrimp of course! lol)

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